19 Metaphors for gem

We may say, then, from that evidence alonethough there is morethat this gem was certainly Persian.

They were there by hundreds, and every gem was a fortunewhole cases of swords with hilts and scabbards of solid gold studded with gems, the great two-handed coronation sword of the German emperors, daggers covered with brilliants and rubies, diamond buttons, chains, and orders, necklaces and bracelets of pearl and emerald, and the order of the Golden Fleece made in gems of every kind.

The illustrations are almost unexceptionably good; the gems in this way being Mrs. Siddons, as Lady Macbeth, by C. Rolls, after Harlowe: the face is perhaps the most intellectual piece of engraving ever seen; the sublime effect in so small a space is truly surprising.

The gem of the proceedings was a presentation of two lovely bouquets by the English ladies of Harbin.

So that the very gems we admire as natural are the offspring of Nature creating under Art.

The gem of the collection was a terrier,a perfect beauty, uglier than philanthropy itself, and hairier, as a Cockney would say, than the 'ole British hairystocracy.

" The gem of the architectural exhibition at Agra, always exempting the Taj Mahal, is the "Pearl Mosque," so called because it is built of stainless white marble, without the slightest bit of color within except inscriptions from the Koran here and there inlaid in precious stones.

The gem of the room is a lovely Titian, No. 92, on an easel, a golden work of supreme quietude and disguised power.

Memory Gem: "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man.

The gem of the whole play is my hair!

* Memory Gem: Habit is a cable.

[Footnote 1: Dr. Gem was an English physician who had been for some time settled in Paris.

Mr. Swinburne was in those days the favourite butt of young parodists, and the gem of the book is the dedication to "J.S." or "John Stiles," a mythical person, nearly related to John Doe and Richard Roe, with whom all budding jurists had in old days to make acquaintance.

They were there by hundreds, and every gem was a fortune.

No Gem, no treasure like to this, 'Tis my delight, my crown, my bliss. All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy.

The prose gem of the volume, to our taste, is Giulietta, a Tale of the Fourteenth Century, by L.E.L., which we abridge.

The gems upon her were heirlooms of the Heyburn family, and in that grey light looked cold and glassy.

"The gem of the piece is Olivia herself, acted by Ellen Terry with a sweetness and pathos that moved some of the audience (nearly including myself) to tears.

"The gem of the piece," he writes, "was the exquisitely graceful and beautiful Ariel, Miss Kate Terry.

19 Metaphors for  gem