Definition of presious

(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)

But it is our health - more precious than all the money in the world - that these modern witch_doctors with their fake therapeutic gadgets are gambling away .

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

The long settled areas of states like Virginia and South_Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering , and there the memory is more precious , and the consciousness of loss the greater .

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves , the many threes-fulfilled on Mars , corporate and discorporate , the precious few on Earth - the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at_last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself .