worth a king's ransom
Example Sentences
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The hoard of almost 500 pieces was a 17th-century goldsmith's stock – worth a king's ransom then and priceless now.
From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2013
Everyone had been busy burning and burying a creature worth a king’s ransom.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
"It's worth a king's ransom, this bottle. It cost me two large blue-white diamonds, a mechanical bluebird which sang, and a dragon's scale."
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas
"I won't colour it this morning; it must be quite an hour and a half since I began; but the worst is done, and that's worth a king's ransom."
From Elster's Folly by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
