How To Use Estimable In A Sentence

Betwixt the gracylament of the foote and the cuppe, it was knitte together with a handle of inestimable workemanship, and in lyke manner the foote and the bowle were of an excellent anaglyphie of foliature, monsters and byformed Scyllules, so exquisitely expressed, as could be imbossed, chased, or ingrauen by proportionate circulation. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds.
The cinematographer was the estimable Paul Sarossy. 'Like Crazy': From Cupid's Blunders, Wonders
So the estimable seed of Kumi, eight centuries before, had entered into the aliis of Lakanaii, and been passed down by them in the undeviating line to reposit in SHIN-BONES
And while Roslin is not itself a commercial organisation, the benefit in terms of royalties, prestige and future investment is inestimable.

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They set out an estimable tuna salad perked up with toasted pine nuts.
The crux of their argument is that mothering - as opposed to fathering, or parenting, or care giving - is something unique, and of inestimable value.
I am naturally, ...err , flattered that you refer to me as 'estimable', but am surprised that the only answer to the perfectly justified observation I made that it is 'bonkers' to assert that there have been 'deliberate moves' to break up the normal family as an aside, whatever that is is to make this comment: [those days] under the microscope
In the winter time they had their taffety gowns of all colours, as above-named, and those lined with the rich furrings of hind-wolves, or speckled lynxes, black-spotted weasels, martlet skins of Calabria, sables, and other costly furs of an inestimable value. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Our estimable reader Stanley Black sent me these comments and asked for my response.
Each of us is compared to "a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Brent Poirier: Celebration of the Birth of the Bab: Dawn of the Age of the Maturity of Humanity
Scottish Television's flagship news programme, the estimable Scotland Today, has a website which sadly strips all the glamour away from television news.
The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough. Paras. 40-58
Today the Washington Post ran a page 1 story by the estimable Thomas Ricks concerning a briefing given to a Pentagon advisory committee last month.
The 'estimable' critic Ben Davis wows the pseudo Marxists/Socialists, but the guy should actually try and be a real Socialist for one month and then get back to us. Comrade Davis (repost)
Natural history programmes have many estimable qualities but excitement isn't often one of them. Times, Sunday Times
Again, in the silent night-watches, did sage Mentor become vocal, going over afresh the story of the Nervous and the Mucous, classifying their victims, generalizing laws, discriminating the various dyspepsies of the nations, and summing up at last the inestimable benefits conferred by our modern dyspepsy on the character, the literature, and the life of this nineteenth century. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
Another three-letter word, ECM, as is the estimable label ECM Records, run by producer Manfred Eicher, might lend itself to a more precise subset of electronic-oriented recordings — music that is compositionally open-ended, and whose deeply sedative aspirations are not technologically dependent. Disquiet » Sonic Postcard from Switzerland
I would never doubt the worthy intentions of that estimable gentleman.
So the estimable seed of Kumi, eight centuries before, had entered into the aliis of Lakanaii, and been passed down by them in the undeviating line to reposit in SHIN-BONES
In this sense, the encyclopedic cultural value and historic significance of Dunhuang are inestimable.
If not you, then your estimable apprentice can do the research.
In fact, far from the love of esteem being grounds for disesteem, a total disregard of others’ opinions seems to reveal in a person a certain contemptuousness of others, a characteristic that is itself disestimable.
The experimental results show that this method resolves the problem of visible figure and inestimable periods about multidimensional digital image.
A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but, though I could not with such estimable wonder overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her: she bore a mind that envy could not but call fair. Act II. Scene I. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will
an estimable young professor
Why are a few particularly estimable, highly intelligent women and men in very prominent positions, blind in one eye when it comes to the protection of minorities?
C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout. Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
However, there can be little wrong in people of such a young and naive age recognising the inestimable pain and suffering that armed conflict inevitably brings and questioning the justification for it.
My final candidate for the toga is the inestimable Kate Hoey. Archive 2007-09-23
The estimable Frank Field, given the task of reforming welfare by the prime minister, argued strongly against any extension of means-testing.
University teaching is a form of political advocacy, and this freedom to think and talk about thoughts is of inestimable value.
stipendiaries" as a "purely royal and liberal gift, which it would esteem as great and precious as if his Majesty had presented it an inestimable sum of silver or gold," other political motives prevented him from yielding to its entreaties. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
With estimable discipline, Smith's inquiry anatomizes vocal volume and pitch, yet rhythm receives scant attention and, not surprisingly, scrutiny of poetic meter is wanting.
However, kind words, kind looks, and the present of that inestimable treasure -- a knife, brought him to reason; and he told Amyas that he belonged to a Spaniard who had an "encomienda" of Indians some fifteen miles to the south-west; that he had fled from his master, and lived by hunting for some months past; and having seen the ship where she lay moored, and boarded her in hope of plunder, had been surprised therein by the Spaniards, and forced by threats to go with them as a guide in their search for the English. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
San Francisco literati are still talking about an incident a couple of years ago when upstart author Stephen Elliott (New York Literary Lion finalist and author of "The Adderall Diaries") threw a full glass of beer on Zyzzyva magazine founder and editor, the estimable Howard Junker, after he said into the microphone with calm conviction: "Stephen Elliott has no literary merit whatsoever. Jane Ganahl: Reading as a Spectator Sport
It would have been a great loss, had any one survived to feel that immense void, that inestimable loneliness, that despair of nothingness.
For modern day magicians, the knowledge found in books is of inestimable value.
On the upper part of the chariot lay an effigy, representing his person in royal robes, with an imperial crown of gold, beset with jewels of an inestimable value on its head, with a sceptre in the right hand, and a globe in the left.
The manner in which this kind of spoliation is sometimes effected may be gathered from a narrative which we received from the lips of one of the few learned and estimable men whom the system of electing judges by the people has left upon the bench in the City of New York. The Secrets of the Great City
The medical importance of this discovery is of inestimable value.
His recommendations are estimable, but are by no means new.
C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout. Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
Now, estimable and engaging though he is, Tony Jones is 64 years old and does not represent the future of the party.
At one time there were over 3,000 statues at the site, and an inestimable hoard of gold and jewellery.
_achromatic_, and admits into the judging mind a pure white light, and records an undisturbed, uncolored image, undiminished and unenlarged in its passage; and he has the moral power, courage, and conscience, to use and devote such an inestimable instrument aright. Spare Hours
On the other hand, if they leave the company due to ill management, they will inevitably bring an inestimable loss.
That he was of a free generous disposition, not regarding at all the Riches of the World, may be seen in the first Poem of his Book, speaking of the inestimable content he enjoyed in the Muses, to those of his friends which dehorted him from Poetry. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets
Charlotte who is just sixteen is shorter than her Sister, and though her figure cannot boast the easy dignity of Julia's, yet it has a pleasing plumpness which is in a different way as estimable. Love And Freindship
It's accompanied by a related piece from the estimable Robert Stevens, here.
She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares. "One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to."
When a married man becomes what you call estimable," said Donna Don Orsino
Nevertheless the observations which have been made so far, have led to some highly important, more or less positive conclusions, and have shown us with a certain degree of satisfaction and certainty, that iodine is an inestimable gift of God, by means of which we are enabled to free mankind from one of the most frightful complications, the psoric, sycosic and mercurial miasms. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares. Commonplace
Je vais donc partager avec vous, gratuitement et en direct, ce secret inestimable qui augmentera de façon sensible votre plaisir à déguster de la crevette. Décortiquer sa crevette sans douleur — Climb to the Stars
In this sense, the encyclopedic cultural value and historic significance of Dunhuang are inestimable.
Under its auspices, it may be possible to overcome the hesitations of the East, to create that new sense of partnership between the industrialised West and the unindustrialised East which could be of such inestimable benefit to both. The United Nations as a Force for Peace and Prosperity
The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds.
NBC's normally professional Brian Williams and the estimable Richard Engel were positively giddy as they larked through Tahrir Square among the protesters. Terence Smith: No Cheering in the Press Box, Please
That it has been achieved so smoothly says much about the consummate skill of Sarah Munro, the gallery's estimable and committed director.
Teachout, an estimable critic, biographer, and former jazzbo, draws on newly available recordings and writings to limn the fullest portrait to date of the most popular and beloved figure in 20th-century music. Cover to Cover
Each human soul is of inestimable value because it was fashioned in the image, and after the likeness of God Himself.
a hardness! an upward bend of erection! and which, together with it bottom dependence, the inestimable bulse of ladies jewels, formed a grand showout of goods indeed! Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
The estimable John O'Sullivan thinks he'll survive, if barely.
Considering that time social environment, he sought to set up managing newly for the exploration of the road, not only benefit country and nationality, but also estimable.
Dexter Allison is no doubt an estimable man in many ways, even though, as you feel positive, he has a tendency to acquisitiveness which is deplorable. Then I'll Come Back to You
estimable assets
Something of inestimable value; something of power so great that it would have given its owner the keys to the world! SANDS OF TIME
The estimable Steve Bainbridge disagrees about the merits of the outlined amnesty proposal.
The result was a most deplorable tragedy, by which an estimable and unoffending lady was killed by a rifle bullet.
The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds.
At last, when a thousand feet have trodden upon a thing of inestimable price, there comes along a newspaper man, doing the driest kind of hackwork, bound to a drudgery as stale and dreary as any in life, and he sees what no man has ever seen before him, though it has been plain in view for years and years. My Contemporaries In Fiction
The information he provided was of inestimable value .
The advice and encouragement they had given to him was inestimable, particularly in sharing knowledge of tidal sailing with him, an area of sailing which can always be a weakness for lake sailors, he added.
You think they're sitting around the coffee shops this week dissecting the finer points of the estimable judges 'ruling, discussing the possible ramifications of the court's definition of "overbroad"? Pet Talk: High court's decision is a depiction of animal cruelty
But the action was nonetheless 'estimable' and the navy commandos intercept the Mavi Marmara on its way to break the WN.com - Photown News
Marcus Stewart registered another goal of inestimable importance to third-placed Sunderland as they maintained their promotion push against a side with similarly lofty ambitions.
It's been one of those experiences that restores your faith in the inestimable value of being a teacher.
There was also a certain amount of reading, but less than anticipated, as Michael Bywater's estimable little tome ‘Lost Worlds’ served to keep me company all week.
But even if the theory proves to be wrong the benefits from investing in early-childhood programs would be inestimable.
This great small research university is mentioned in passing by Gregg Easterbrook as among the "estimable" colleges (though it actually belongs in the "slightly less good than the elites" category). Letters to the Editor
Somehow he resolved these complexities into a single coherent being, and yet was secure enough to have no need to dominate; his willingness to fit into an ensemble of another new generation of actors was estimable.
The inestimable value of speech-reading and the practicability of its acquisition under favorable conditions is a matter of common experience and observation but justice to the deaf requires a recognition of the fact that speech-reading has its limitations. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
It has inestimable value for today's listeners in gaining a balance between old and new.
They set out an estimable tuna salad perked up with toasted pine nuts.
This crop of voices would contribute inestimable value to the party; to stifle the forces of normal growth that would accrue to the party in such a debate would be foolish.
It would reign omnipotent over all the other inestimable, ageless, treasures of antiquity that thirty seven ruthless years of deep intrigue and immense wealth had brought him.
This is without even bringing up the possibility that the results from the fake investigation could be very misleading to the point of causing inestimable harm.
He writes estimable poetry under a pseudonym.
Maureen was a very estimable lady whose outgoing, sincere nature and great depth of human kindness marked her out as an excellent, thoughtful neighbour.
The experimental results show that this method resolves the problem of visible figure and inestimable periods about multidimensional digital image.
Many estimable individuals have lined up behind the notion that we live in a post-copyright age.
We thought that it was maladministered and that the very estimable and reverend gentleman who held the office of warden was somewhat too highly paid for duties which were somewhat too easily performed. Barchester Towers
C n'est qu'une confusion perpetuelle de la gourmandise proprement dite avec la gloutonnerie et la voracité: d'où j'ai conclu que les lexicographes, quoique très-estimables d'ailleurs, ne sont pas de ces savants aimables qui embouchent avec grace une aile de perdrix au suprême pour l'arroser, le petit doigt en l'air, d'un verre de vin de Laffitte ou de clos Vougeout. Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'
A most estimable young woman and as dull as ditchwater, but he thought the world of her. Movie Night
He fills his days rooting around for precious stones, which he then polishes into objects of inestimable beauty.
He writes estimable poetry under a pseudonym.
The worship of the Eucharist outside of the Mass is inestimable value for the life of the Church.
Thus far I have not mentioned speech, not perhaps the most inestimable of human gifts, but, if it is not that, it is at least the endowment, which makes man social, by which principally we impart our sentiments to each other, and which changes us from solitary individuals, and bestows on us a duplicate and multipliable existence. Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
In this sense, the encyclopedic cultural value and historic significance of Dunhuang are inestimable.
Therefore, he jog-trotted down to the Converse law-offices and shot himself into the presence of the estimable gentleman who had remained aloof from the distracting business of a convention. The Landloper
Her possession of me and my inestimable value are ringingly implicit in her threatening cry. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Perhaps predictably, there have been critics responding on both sides, most notably the estimable Jerry Coyne, the author of one of the best books ever written on the subject, Why Evolution is True, who on his web page of the same title called me an "accommodationist" and even a "faitheist" (not sure what that is -- "faith atheist"? but it's clever!) Michael Shermer: Theism v. Atheism: I'm A Realist, Not An "Accommodationist"
But the thought recurs that his brother, Martin, attained an estimable eighth place in the men's downhill at the same venue in 1988.
Turning from his comedic work at Britain's Ealing Studios to direct this noirish, all-American masterpiece about greed, ambition, and the perversity of power, Alexander MacKendrick relied on estimable playwright Clifford Odets and writer Ernest Lehman for their scripting talent. John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis
They would, moreover, have had the supreme satisfaction of knowing that they had not only exceeded the most sanguine anticipations of the devisor of this trust, but, in having solved the problem of dealing with illiterate and indigent masses, they had furnished an object-lesson in political economy of inestimable value to the world. The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
Who knows, but let's live in hope that the crucial planning hurdle can, and will, be finally cleared to allow the developers to proceed with a project that will be of inestimable value to the whole community.
I think the estimable Dr. Payne goes too far.
Their estimable credits aside, the two were classic movie-world shady characters.
Riches of the World, may be seen in the first Poem of his Book, speaking of the inestimable content he enjoyed in the Muses, to those of his friends which dehorted him from Poetry. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
Yang said the statue is unique in the world and its value was inestimable.
The experimental results show that this method resolves the problem of visible figure and inestimable periods about multidimensional digital image.
Though he never parts with his pens I somehow managed to get my hands on one of his estimable pens for a rupee.
The estimable Howell Binkley does not disappoint with his atmospheric lighting.
Aunt Julia says he is really a very estimable man -- Cordelia, if I was a man I just wouldn't be an 'estimable' one. The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch
The estimable Peter Baines, M.D. is the proprietor of the company.
The ancient alienist did not know the doctor as I did: Though by outward sign Warthrop appeared completely calm and collected, within him a fire burned, as hot as the sun, and only by the supreme effort of his inestimable will was the doctor able to contain it. The Monstrumologist
Let him zealously persuade them that they are in a much worse condition now than when they had no canal: that it cost more than it was worth; that it was an oppression upon the people; that it let in a trade from without, by which they were underbidden in their own market; and that to choke it up immediately with the same dirt which was taken out of its bed, would be restoring to the state the inestimable privileges which it once possessed, and of which by the wily practices of artful and imposing men, it is now deprived. The Numbers of Carlton, Addressed to the People of North Carolina, on a Central Rail-Road Through the State. The Rights of Freemen is an Open Trade 232 p.
No disrespect to that most estimable little crocus; but Fanny Kemble is one that even the great pleasure-giver herself might be willing to have bear her name. Gardening by Myself
Republica, & De Inveniendis Orationum Exordiis_: A piece inestimable, never publish’d; is now in the library at Vienna, after it had formerly been the greatest rarity in that of the late Cardinal Mazarine: Other papyraceous trees are mention’d by West-Indian travellers, especially in Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but, though I could not with such estimable wonder overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her; she bore a mind that envy could not but call fair. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
jewels of inestimable value
Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition)
The estimable founder of Editorial Intelligence gave her inaugural lecture last night to spell out the importance of networking to business. Times, Sunday Times
A cost overrun is inestimable because it must include the costly health impacts of redirecting 20,000+ vehicles from 'commercial' Lower Belltown through 'residential' Lower Queen Anne, and another 20,000+ vehicles along an idiotically reconfigured Alaskan Way that couldn't handle half that amount of traffic. McGinn Outfoxes Council President Conlin « PubliCola
It was a truly broad and liberal education and as such, it was to be of inestimable benefit to me.
The value of your assistance is inestimable.
Your tolerance and good humour have an inestimable value in my eyes.
However, such an unselective policy has resulted in inestimable numbers of unnecessary exposures to radiation for little diagnostic yield.
Such, for instance, was the estimable man to whom I have repeatedly referred as a warm defender of tractoration, and a bitter assailant of its enemies. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
There are, in fact, too many estimable restaurants in Moscow & St. Petersburg for me to say that I've eaten at them all and produced the definitive listing.
The deceased tutoress was a tranquil, smooth woman, easily nourished, as such people are, -- a quality which is inestimable in a tutor's wife, -- and so it happened that the daughter inherited enough vitality from the mother to live through childhood and infancy and fight her way towards womanhood, in spite of the tendencies she derived from her other parent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
In this sense, the encyclopedic cultural value and historic significance of Dunhuang are inestimable.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. --- Mark Twain.
The other islands were, with few exceptions, arid rocks; and most of them had the inestimable advantage of being unplagued with a Turkish population. Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
Indeed, an alliance between us will be of inestimable value, as I'm sure, even innocent as you are of such matters, you will agree. ON A WILD NIGHT
Repose of manner is an estimable trait in a horse.

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