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Meanings of precious gem in English

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Usage of precious gem in English
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What have you to trade for such a precious gem of knowledge?
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2
The most precious gem is found in the most worthless sand.
Wise or Otherwise
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I shall guard him carefully, as the most precious gem in my casket.
Captain Fracasse
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Here was a new revelation-anunsuspected facet of the precious gem.
Empire Builders
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Still it was a precious gem, and would doubtless fetch several hundreds of pounds.
Six Months at the Cape
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This exceeding precious gem, amongst these its powers and virtues, possesseth this property besides.
Barlaam and Ioasaph
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All through the descent he shielded the meagre flame as one might a precious gem.
Orb Sceptre Throne
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Can he imagine that I shall not recover my precious gem, my stone of Saul?
Prince Zaleski
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Thus on every side the utmost caution is taken to guard that precious gem in its casket.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
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The father of Rashi, for instance, is said to have possessed a precious gem of great value.
Rashi
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That fair, spirituelle form had seemed to him only as a beautiful casket hiding a precious gem.
Dora Thorne
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Thus he is in a state of moral poverty, entirely forgetting the precious gem of Buddha-nature within him.
The Religion of the Samurai / A Study of Zen Philosophy and Disc...
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Further out was a ringed world that glittered like a precious gem within its engirdlement of icy spicules.
The gunslinger
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Approaching Matanga, she made a low obeisance, and, without speaking, put a very precious gem into his hand.
Hindoo Tales; Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes
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Yet, how great a difference, in appearance and value, between that precious gem and a thimbleful of coal-dust!
The Happiness of Heaven / By a Father of the Society of Jesus
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He himself is the chief ornament, the most noble production; in multiplying himself he multiplies her most precious gem.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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