But we want to go and sell our ruby soon.

Here are found rubies and many precious things, and rare plants grow abundantly, with cedar-trees and cocoa-palms.

The biggest poodle wore a ruby in his collar worth five hundred dollars.

He stretched out his hand and took the ruby.

The king opened his jewel chamber, and gave him the richest rubies, and vessels of gold filled with musk and aloes, and also splendid garments; a hundred beautiful damsels wearing crowns and ear-rings, a hundred horses, and a hundred camels.

With plain downright simplicity and free from all ostentation Peter carried this valuable ruby to the king in his waistcoat pocket, and presented it wrapped up in a piece of brown paper.

Our boat glided over a lake of glowing sapphire, and our oars dropped rubies.

Then her mother answered, "Your father said that there is a merchant in Nishapur, who has fixed twelve inestimable rubies on his dog's collar: the king would not believe him, but conceived him a liar, and has imprisoned him.

I've got the ruby.

Inside were small jewelry cases, and each contained a beautiful stickpin of gold, holding a ruby with three small diamonds around it.

From the bed where now she's sleeping Soft the curtain I would slip; Softly kiss her childlike forehead, Kiss the ruby of her lip.

There has been bad faith in Hollams' gang, I expect, and Hollams has missed the ruby and suspects Leamy of having taken it from the bag.

The king of Pegu, and the monarchs of Siam and Ava, monopolize the rarest rubies; the finest in the world is in the possession of the first of these kings: its purity has passed into a proverb, and its worth when compared with gold, is inestimable.

And you have given me so many pretty things that I don't need the ruby.

For it Wisdom means, which passes Rubies, pearls, or golden masses.

No one who could pay more than a dozen rubies.

The young merchant, having looked at the animal with great attention, perceived on its collar the twelve large rubies, as she had heard [them described].

Hollams found out by his repeated searches of Leamy and his lodgings, that this was wrong, and this morning evidently tried to persuade the ruby out of Wilks' possession with a revolver.

The quartette were placing prospective rubies and sapphires on the board, using gun-wads in lieu of the real article.

Several days ago his men dumped a great quantity of some sort of poison into the streama poison that is used in washing or polishing the rubies, whatever it is.

His master (the Tzar) gave the King's servants, at his departure, one hundred and twenty guineas, which was more than they deserved, they being very rude to him; but to the King he presented a rough ruby, which the greatest jewellers of Amsterdam (as well Jews as Christians) valued at ten thousand pounds sterling.

Badakhshan is a part of the grand province of Khurasan, and the city of Balkh is its metropolis, to the eastward of which is a chain of mountains celebrated for producing fine rubies.

Cublai-Khan once sent to purchase this ruby, offering the value of a city for it; but the king answered that he would not part with it for all the treasure in the world, because it had belonged to his ancestors.

R. The Toff puts the ruby beside him on the table.

Indeed he himself recognized the ruby on Dáráb's arm, which convinced him that he was the son of Bahman, whom Húmaí caused to be thrown into the Euphrates.