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From England came the apocalyptic chants of Edith Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rare privilege, truly, when its preciosities are oiled with mellifluous King's English, even though by spurious engineers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, a wide outlook will help us to avoid exaggerations, preciosities, and fanaticisms.

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward

Art is not a "hole and corner" thing, an affair of professional preciosities and discriminations, a set of tiresome rules to be learned by rote.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

And Helen, too, seemed more in a humour to accept the disappearance of five invaluable trunks, full of preciosities, as a facetious sally on the part of destiny.

From Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Bennett, Arnold