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12 Concl. Lollards (Trin. Hall Cambr.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) 22 299 Þe correlari is þe preyere of ualue springand out of parfyth charite.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 9199 To precyouse stanes of vertow And to sylver and gold and thing of valow.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 372 Quhar it failȝeys, na wertu May be off price, na off valu.

1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace i. x. f. 24 A murtherer or manqueller shal be quyet and absolued from..punysshement, so that he do paye money or some other thynge of value.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1136/1 So likewise did the Spanish soldiors..that could come to finger anie thing of value.

a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 22 Shee [sc. a boat] had litle of value in her.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 183 The almost Omnipresence of an Advantage, is a Circumstance of Value.

1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) I. 353 The Sands were covered with Country People, running to and fro to see if the Sea had cast up anything of value.

1795 T. Jefferson Let. 8 June in Garden Bk. (1999) 236 This is the plant which the English Government thought of value enough to be procured at public expense from Sweden.

1822 M. Graham Jrnl. 29 June in Captain's Wife (1993) 94 Our lady was taken out dressed in brown satin, and jewels of value.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. iii. 54 There may be news of value indeed.

1896 Naturalist 80 The inclusion of Irish habitats would have been of value in the study of zoogeography.

1920 R. A. Freeman Savant's Vendetta vii. 132 If I am known to be selling things of value, people may make uncharitable remarks.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 827/1 Comparative data..would clearly be of value in confirming or refuting these speculations.

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane iii. 66 Women lured drunken men into dark alleys where their husbands would cosh and strip them of anything of value.