jealously-guarded

In the evening this jealously-guarded Catalan classic, its walls bedecked with FC Barcelona basketball shirts and photos, is often packed with loud and cheery gangs of friends meeting for a few bites before hitting the town.

10 of the best tapas bars in Barcelona 2011

In the evening this jealously-guarded Catalan classic, its walls bedecked with FC Barcelona basketball shirts and photos, is often packed with loud and cheery gangs of friends meeting for a few bites before hitting the town.

10 of the best tapas bars in Barcelona 2011

The sharing, asserts Mrs. Cornejo, extended into the physical world, where once jealously-guarded personal items increasingly started being passed around between the kids, if somewhat nervously.

Archive 2008-06-01 Bill Kerr 2008

The sharing, asserts Mrs. Cornejo, extended into the physical world, where once jealously-guarded personal items increasingly started being passed around between the kids, if somewhat nervously.

three differences in Arahuay Bill Kerr 2008

All this throwing around terms of "literary" and "action" and whatever... what upsets me here is what's always upset me: the vast, jealously-guarded no-man's land between literary and genre fiction.

still more news Holly 2005

Divergence: Columbus' three ships go to the bottom in 1492; Cabral's landfall in Brazil results in nothing more than a jealously-guarded secret trading post and maybe some plagues that clear the field for the Tlaxcalan expansion and even a few epidemiological odds; English sailors explore gingerly south from Newfoundland, perhaps drawn by ripples from the expanding Tlaxcalan trade network.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005

The details of its chassis, suspension, brakes, materials, and the whole engine are jealously-guarded Honda secrets.

kevynwight Diary Entry kevynwight 2003

All of the gospel, all the hopes it brings to us, all the promises with which it comforts us, were taken for their final verdict, as true or false, sufficient or worthless, to the door of that jealously-guarded and stone-sealed sepulchre, waiting the settlement of the question,

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

The life described in _Flamenca_ is the life of the days in which it was composed; and the hero's task is to disguise himself as a clerk, so as to get a word with the jealously-guarded lady in church on Sundays, while giving her the Psalter to kiss after the Mass.

Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

"It was half land, half water," explained the topographer of the first expedition that had located and named the streams in these jealously-guarded haunts of the red men.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various