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too great to be calculated or measured- jewels of inestimable value
inestimable = too great to be calculated or measured
- a right inestimable to themThomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence
- It is a privilege to serve her who pities my oppressed people, and who has bestowed the inestimable boon of freedom on me and my children.Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- The value of a man like Henry, on such an occasion, is what you can have no conception of; so you must take it upon my word to be inestimable.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- And the inestimable Casto?J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
- This revelation seemed to me inestimably precious.Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- "An inestimable advantage have you then enjoyed, venerable venator!" observed the attentive naturalist.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz.Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
- She is the product of an Alchemy of such virtue that he who is able to practise it, will turn her into pure gold of inestimable worth.Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
- And his suggestions on the question of dress—which too often assumes the nature of a problem—were of inestimable value to his father-in-law.Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
- Is it Bodger's fault that this inestimable gift is deplorably abused by less than one per cent of the poor?George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
- His brightest diamonds were the merest pebbles, and felt to be so by himself, in comparison with the inestimable gems which lay hidden beyond his reach.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark
- I now read over the works of Aristotle and Plato, with the rest of those inestimable treasures which antient Greece had bequeathed to the world.Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
- There may exist certain critical and tempestuous conjunctures of the State, in which a poll tax may become an inestimable resource.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- I give it her, and say: 'I ask an inestimable price for it, Miss Larkins.'Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- It was the chance of a lifetime for him, an experience of inestimable value, Abigail recognized, her "thousand fears" notwithstanding.David McCullough -- John Adams
- A diamond necklace, with pendants of inestimable value, were by this means also made more conspicuous.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- The splendor of the ruined monarchy had no reflection save in those inestimable precious stones.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Earth's Holocaust
- John Galt was a millionaire, a man of inestimable wealth.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- And he went back into the cities of men where he moved among the citizens of the world, bestowing the inestimable boon of the knowledge of the Way.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
inestimable = (whose value is) too great to be calculated or measured
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