Meanings of precious pearl in English

You do not think I am going to throw my precious pearl to the swine?

In their blindness they cast away the precious pearl, Christ, and hang onto their stubborn works.

O thou heavenly, brilliant and precious pearl!

In all the world, no gift could equal this; no dazzling gem could rival such a precious pearl.

Yes, it was a precious pearl.

This precious pearl now belongs to his wife, of whom we have already spoken at the time of his departure.

Satisfied with showing them this treasure of the deep, he turned round, and retraced his steps, leaving the precious pearl behind them.

This caused Max to raise his head, and turn his eyes toward the tent pole where the haversack containing the precious pearl hung.

The merchant, on the contrary, who fell in with the precious pearl was travelling with the express purpose of discovering goodly pearls and buying them.

One of the inscriptions tells us that it was intended to be "likened to a mansion of paradise or to a precious pearl."

Towards the close of his life he composed a short work on eschatology "Al Durra al Fakhirah" ("The precious pearl") of a sufficiently lurid character.

And also there are stones and precious pearls, and unnumbered spices.

However, let us examine these precious pearls of which so much is thought.

Precious pearls and aromatic blossoms would become expensive luxuries at two cents a word.

Hide them, as a string of precious pearls, within the casket of your hearts.

Notwithstanding such precious pearls as the two Nocturnes, Op.