It is time, existence is not in the issue; but are there not things a thousand times dearer than life at peril?
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Look into your heart of hearts and ask yourself if I am a dearer possession now that you know that, come good or ill, with you or apart from you, in love or in anger, I hold myself yours and no other man's.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Land's going to be dearer in that district presently.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton