Here they found berries that might have graced the banquets of Lucullus, great ambrosial sweetnesses hanging like rubies to long, rosy stalks.
He held out a golden thimble studded with rubies.
－－《·》28:13 The price of wisdom is beyond rubies.
There is little difference between red glass and rubies to a child of six, and I remember wearing that ring with a pride that all the cards in the world could not surpass11.
,;, On his breastplate was the three-headed dragon of his House, wrought all in rubies that flashed like fire in the sunlight.
Contained in the safe, the couple found soggy bills totaling $52,000, diamonds, rubies and more.
I think of different things like delicious red apples, expensive red sports cars, sparkling red rubies, or red roses.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain.
When I Was One-and-Twenty When I was one-and-twenty 1 heard a wise man say, : "Give crowns and pounds and guineas ", But not your heart away; ; Give pearls away and rubies , But keep your fancy free.
'Diamonds, rubies, sapphires?
In the middle you shall build me a large hall with a dome, its four walls of massy gold and silver, each side having six windows, whose lattices, all except one, which is to be left unfinished, must be set with diamonds and rubies.
It struck me as a very strange thing that a river of clear fresh water, which gushed out from the mountain not far from where we stood, instead of flowing into the sea as rivers generally do, turned off sharply, and flowed out of sight under a natural archway of rock, and when I went to examine it more closely I found that inside the cave the walls were thick with diamonds, and rubies, and masses of crystal, and the floor was strewn with ambergris.
Being assured of this I returned to the cavern, and amassed a rich treasure of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and jewels of all kinds which strewed the ground.
She was dressed in an Egyptian dress of flowered satin, and she wore earrings, and a necklace of white pearls, and bracelets of gold set with rubies, and she held a wand of myrtle in her hand.
But instead of a book, it was a work of art contained in a casket, an artificial nightingale made to look like a living one, and covered all over with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires.
The princess herself had a snow-white steed, decked with diamonds and rubies.
