When it was recovered the secret of the whereabouts of the ruby sword and the other valuables would be revealed.
Had this structure to do with the hidden treasure--the priceless ruby sword?
You remember that affair we have often talked about, when I saved the life of the Durani emir, Dost Hussain, and the story of the hiding of the ruby sword.
The story of the ring was so bound up with that of the ruby sword and the hidden treasure that it was difficult to tell the one without revealing the other.
The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan By Bertram Mitford Illustrations by Harold Pifford Published by F.
This was the other name mentioned in connection with the treasure and the ruby sword--Syyed Ain Asraf, the brother of the fugitive Durani chief, Dost Hussain Khan.
The Sirdar Dost Hussain Khan, when pressed by his enemies, concealed his treasures, principal among which was a ruby hilted sword of wellnigh priceless value.
The ruby dress, however, drew forth many little cries of admiration.
The empress gave the first with her own hand, which was a fineruby ring set round with diamonds, in a gold snuff-box.
Then, as if afraid the strange ruby might melt in his hand, the jeweler dashed into his testing room.
He took him to be a wealthy Englishman travelling for pleasure, and showed him some of his best goods, including a ruby pendant worth about fifty thousand marks.
Like fairy lamps ye light the garden bed With tender ruby glow.
Can you deny that you gaged your ruby ring against my golden bracelet that yonder Knight of the Libbard, or how call you him, could not be seduced from his post?
Lady Thornton wore a white satin trained skirt and basque, trimmed with puffings of tulle, held in place by bands and bows of the darkest shade of ruby velvet, interspersed with fine white flowers.
At supper the question of the significance of dreams came up, all discussing it in an animated manner save the Lady Anne, who toyed with her wineglass, often gazing down into it as if trying to read her future in its ruby depths.
Hereupon the student took from his finger a superb ruby set between two brilliants of inferior size, and allowed it to pass from hand to hand, all round the table.
She may bring me my ruby in the city of the gods, and I, the son of Odin, will keep tryst with her whom I love.
Her eyes were opened, looking downward, and the red glow of the ruby answered them as if it were speaking to her of love.
The rubywas now in his hand, the great red stone that was graven with the name of the Hebrew god, and among them all there was no other like this.
So deep was the red light of the ruby in this ring that its glow seemed hot like fire, and it throbbed as if it had pulses at the movement of her hand changing the light upon it.
I was certain, however, that she saw the ruby in my scarf, and so knew that I had prevented the mischief of which she had warned me.
My attention was first called to this by accidentally hearing a plot at a ball to rob the lady of the house of a large rubywhich she wore on her breast.
I declined once to allow my guests to be searched when that fellow Thauret suggested it, at the time of the ruby robbery.
Naturally my first thought was to send for a detective, and I remembered him in connection with that ruby robbery of yours, which occurred at my house.
Whether or not she might have found some other means of avoiding my offer, she did not think of one then, so she handed me the ruby and I gave her the check.
Never was it made for thatruby and most ripe mouth!
RUBY AND RUTHY Ruby and Ruthie were not old enough to go to school, but they certainly were lively enough to have many exciting adventures, that taught many useful lessons needed to be learned by little girls.
Ovid speaks of the tree as "the Arbutus heavy with its ruby fruit," and tells us that, in the Golden Age, the fruit afforded food to man.
At the quarry Max gained a more intimate knowledge of the workings of a ruby mine than he had ever hoped to attain.
They had thought the problem solved in the slave gangs and ruby mine, but here was another mystery unsolved.
Whenever they found a ruby they expressed no satisfaction, though it were worth a thousand times the price of their freedom.
Here they discovered that the ruby chest had gone.
This apple resembled a ruby crowned with a huge diamond, and had the gift of imparting wit to those who only smelt of it.
Queen Asia said to her husband, the child was only a babe, and was so young he could not discern between a ruby and a live coal.
He had seen a ruby pendant many months ago in a window in Bond Street.
He took the ruby out of his pocket, opened the little case, looked at the jewel shining there under the electric light, thought of Clare with a sudden rush of passionate affection.
The rubysmiled at Peter as it was slipped into its case; it was glad that it was going to somebody who hadn't very many things.
Precious stones were of no account in such a place as this, and the ruby pendant looked quite small and humble when it was brought to Peter--nevertheless it was beautiful and would suit Clare exactly.
Between two eyes as black as sloes The bright and flaming ruby glows; That Roman Nose!
Our gravity's centre is good vin de grave, Pour'd out to replenish the goblet concave; And tell me what rubies so glisten and shine, Like the deep blushing ruby of Burgundy wine?
They rewarded me with this ruby ring and that stick-pin.
So the aspiring Manikin clung to the perilous Tree-Tops day after day, dropping the ruby Cherries into the suspended Bucket, while all of the Relatives stood on the ground and applauded.
