What have you to trade for such a precious gem of knowledge?

The most precious gem is found in the most worthless sand.

I shall guard him carefully, as the most precious gem in my casket.

Here was a new revelation-anunsuspected facet of the precious gem.

Still it was a precious gem, and would doubtless fetch several hundreds of pounds.

This exceeding precious gem, amongst these its powers and virtues, possesseth this property besides.

All through the descent he shielded the meagre flame as one might a precious gem.

Can he imagine that I shall not recover my precious gem, my stone of Saul?

Thus on every side the utmost caution is taken to guard that precious gem in its casket.

The father of Rashi, for instance, is said to have possessed a precious gem of great value.

That fair, spirituelle form had seemed to him only as a beautiful casket hiding a precious gem.

Thus he is in a state of moral poverty, entirely forgetting the precious gem of Buddha-nature within him.

Further out was a ringed world that glittered like a precious gem within its engirdlement of icy spicules.

Approaching Matanga, she made a low obeisance, and, without speaking, put a very precious gem into his hand.

Yet, how great a difference, in appearance and value, between that precious gem and a thimbleful of coal-dust!

He himself is the chief ornament, the most noble production; in multiplying himself he multiplies her most precious gem.