Under the flap was a drawer, which he pulled open and regaled my astonished eyes with a quantity of loose diamonds and rubies which lay in the bottom.
I picked up the diamonds in Cape Town," he said, "and the rubies in Ceylon.
Now he even doubted the power of the diamonds and rubies to win her, having seen that in her eyes which had brought all his dreams crumbling to choking dust.
She opened it and gazed at the diamonds and rubies in frightened fascination.
Should the necklace of diamonds and rubies fail to impress the girl, then he might bribe John Darling with it to leave the harbor.
So he stood for a long time, breathing heavily, his black eyes glowing like the rubiesand glinting like the diamonds.
He opened it and gloated over a necklace of twelve diamonds and fourteen rubies glinting, flashing and glowing on a bed of white satin.
He found everything but what he was looking for--the frozen body of Foxey Jack Quinn with the necklace of diamonds and rubies in its pocket.
The diamonds and rubiesof Lady Harwood's necklace flashed up at him!
Diamonds an' rubies an' pearls, the wine ye drank last night an' the fancy grub ye et to-day.
He did not want a knowledge of the necklace of diamonds and rubies to become general.
Those white diamonds and red rubies were surely just the things a great lady from up-along would appreciate.
He pressed the catch with his thumb and the diamonds and rubies flashed and glowed beneath his dazzled eyes.
Your complexion, Daisy, will take any sort of colour; but rubies will look especially well on this skin, and pearls.
Rubies and pearls are your style," she said at length.
That is like saying that pearls and rubies are nothing on such a skin as yours," said mamma laughing.
His body quivered; his eyes were as rubies in a mask of marble.
I thought," said he, "that I saw a great dragon of gold come over the meadows with a naked sword in his mouth, and a collar of rubies round his throat.
The man saw a ring of gold carved in the form of a dragon, with rubies for eyes, and a collar of emeralds about its throat.
My master then laid hold of the mysterious chest of which he had spoken to me, and took from it the magic key which opened subterranean recesses where heaps of pearls, diamonds, and rubies were deposited.
Here are found rubies and many precious things, and rare plants grow abundantly, with cedar-trees and cocoa-palms.
Presently my raft was brought in and the bales opened in his presence, and the king declared that in all his treasury there were no such rubies and emeralds as those which lay in great heaps before him.
Poor Mary, she was already paying dear, she thought, for her jewels, and was little consoled that day by her husband's new gifts of rubies and diamonds and pearls.
In the wavering light, the diamonds and rubies sparkled, and Angelina knelt in prayer.
The virgin's jewels, her rubiesand emeralds, gleamed.
The borders of their petticoats below Were guarded thick with rubies on a row; And every damsel wore upon her head Of flowers a garland blended white and red.
These things are toys, but I am entirely in favour of toys; and rubies and emeralds are almost as intoxicating as that sort of lustrous coloured paper they put inside Christmas crackers.
She was sure that it must be real, because he was so rich, but she had never known that rubies could be so big except in a fairy story.
The pen was evidently one specially made to suit his tastes, for it was of gold, the elaborate chasing was picked out with small rubies and a large brilliant was set in the end of the cap.
If those rubies belonged to Mrs. Withers, one thing at least is certain: Morley was in the bungalow the night of the murder, and after the murder had been committed.
She gave me therubies from her earrings; and she followed me to Baltimore.
He says the rubies are the ones he sold years ago.
They brought merubies from the mine, And held them to the sun; I said, they are drops of frozen wine From Eden's vats that run.
Or perhaps he really preferred the three great rubies to Yun-Ying.
A wonderful work of art lay within a casket, a clockwork nightingale, encrusted in diamonds and rubies and pearls, and fashioned in the shape of a real bird.
Instead of the thick white pulp she expected to see, the whole of the inside of the melon was composed of diamonds, rubies and emeralds; and all the seeds were enormous pearls.
Yet all this time she had a whole roomful of the emeralds, diamonds, rubies and pearls that she had found in the melons the Brahmin's wife had sold her.
Old Isaac had had his eyes on those rubies for a long time.
Well, then, you know there isn't another man in New York could dispose of those rubies and play SAFE doing it except me.
As little must we expect to find, as in Italy, the splendor of the fine arts; their most remarkable ornaments are virgins and saints crowned with rubies and diamonds.
You can tell your papa that I believe I have found the heart of the ruby mine; and, if so, there will be rubies enough for us all and to spare.
Upon closer inspection, however, the stones were pronounced by the professor to be uncut and unpolished rubies of exceptional size and beauty, but which were ruined by the roughness and size of their perforations.
The result, he said, was that he had ultimately come upon a place where, upon careful inspection, he had found no fewer than three rubies just showing through the soil, within a foot of each other.
I need not now trouble you any further; so get to work in earnest, and see how many morerubies you can find by the time that we arrive.
I shall put my rubies into his hands to sell, and he will know how to dispose of them without flooding the market.
His most gracious Majesty, here, tells me that he can show us where the wreck lies, and also where thoserubies were found," said he.
White was her inner dress under a golden overdress, her crown of gold adorned with rubies and pearls, and a golden girdle encircled her slender waist.
The color of rubies varies from the deepest to the palest red, all having more or less of a purplish tinge, which is more plainly perceived in the deeper colored specimens than in the paler ones.
They are fragments of the author's early dreams, too bright, too gorgeous, too full of the blood of rubies and the life of diamonds to be caught and held palpitating in expression's grasp.
Clustering rubies Crown its high center, e'en as in summer the sun crowns the heavens.
His doublet, of azure velvet slashed and puffed with white silk, glittered with diamonds, and his girdle was ornamented with rubies and emeralds.
She wore a partlet ornamented with rubies and other precious stones; her head-dress, diamond-shaped and having long side lappets, glittered with gems.
When the music did not amuse society, the diamonds and rubies twinkled and glittered uneasily, but when Cordova was trilling her wildest they were quite still and blazed with a steady light.
Miss Donne was very fond of Edmund Lushington, the writer, but the Primadonna had a distinct weakness for Constantine Logotheti, the Greek financier who lived in Paris, and who wore too many rubies and diamonds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rubies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
