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  • It was adorned and decked with rich and precious stones abundantly, among the which one was a rubie, which stood a handfull higher then the top of the crown vpon a small wier, it was as big as a good beane: the same crown was lined with a faire blacke Sable, worth by report 40. robles.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • It was adorned and decked with rich and precious stones abundantly, among the which one was a rubie, which stood a handfull higher then the top of the crown vpon a small wier, it was as big as a good beane: the same crown was lined with a faire blacke

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • do not visit the sins of father and mother upon this child... she may be angelic, wear rubie slippers, take council of a real dog, german shorthair pointer that hunts for a living.

    Spawn de la Snark Miss Snark 2006

  • "A booke of gold enameled, clasped with a rubie, having on th 'one side, a crosse of dyamounts, and vj other dyamounts, and th' other syde a flower de luce of dyamounts, and iiij rubies with a pendaunte of white saphires and the arms of Englande.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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