Rubies
[ru:biz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Ruby
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Examples
- This is wonderful-' It was a round opal, red and fiery, set in a circle of tiny rubies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Rubies have been thus produced weighing twelve to fifteen carats when cut. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The process of manufacture of rubies is carried on with the oxyhydrogen blow-pipe, to whose intense heat the powdered alumina with its coloring oxides is subjected. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He had gold and silver, diamonds and rubies, riches of every kind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I can imagine to myself such a city as the New Jerusalem, whose pavement is gold and walls are rubies, though I never saw any such. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A diamond all set round with rubies; that's a gentleman's, I hope! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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