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  • From researchers to classroom teachers, from long-treasured voices to important new members of the education community, Adolescent Literacy includes the thoughts of central figures in the field today.

    Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice « Books « Literacy News 2009

  • That long-treasured liberal belief suddenly dropped down the memory hole last January.

    The election of 2008: not listening to Cassandra 2010

  • If Lost JOurnal Of Indy Jones is any indication, adventure will take place in one of the Hawaiian islands, centering around the search for the long-treasured eye of the peacock diamond.

    George Lucas Thinking Up 5th ‘Indiana Jones’ 2008

  • The daughter in her womb would die with her, but the long-treasured Sacred Kestos was safe, its powers undiluted.

    Excerpt: The Giuliana Legacy by Alexis Masters 2000

  • There is much bad blood in this industry, and much long-treasured resentment.

    The Hacker Crackdown Sterling, Bruce 1992

  • So Bessie kept up her visits, and the two would sit and talk together by the hour, Aunt Ruth showing her long-treasured trinkets, relics of years gone by, and detailing their history, till Bessie's eyes would dilate with wonder.

    The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls Various

  • He had arrived in Barchester with only a long-treasured threepenny piece in his pocket.

    Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

  • There was a perfect tumult raging in his breast; he knew that now his long-treasured secret would be brought out; this was to be the end of his struggle to preserve it -- to be exposed at last, when on the brink of consummating his happiness.

    The Garies and Their Friends Frank J. Webb

  • All the old glory of Poland in the ancient centuries, her grievous losses, the terrible wrongs done her, and the long-treasured dreams of a new and happier day for her people, live in the soul of Paderewski, and vibrate through his very finger tips as they move over the keys of his loved instrument.

    Winning a Cause World War Stories Inez Bigwood 1901

  • We perceive the same feeling which pervades many of Emerson's earlier Essays and much of his verse, in these long-treasured reminiscences of the poetical improvisation with which the two boys were thus unexpectedly favored.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

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