jewel.

He arrived yesterday in Contramaestre municipality, where he inaugurated the modern Orlando Pantoja Hospital, which he called a jewel.

CASTRO CONTINUES TOUR OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA 1988

The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel.

Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources William Alexander Clouston 1869

Depending from a chain about the neck there glittered upon his breast what the Masons call a "jewel."

The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall 1894

The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel.

Following the Equator — Part 1 Mark Twain 1872

The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

Shakespeare elsewhere calls _experience_ a "jewel."

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

The word jewelry is originated from the word "jewel."

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'tween-decks forward of the cabin, and in them all were coins, and jewelry, and here and there in the mess, what might have been an opal, or some kind of jewel.

The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888

From Australia to New Zealand -- where Clemens had his third persistent carbuncle, -- [In Following the Equator the author says: "The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

From Australia to New Zealand -- where Clemens had his third persistent carbuncle, -- [In Following the Equator the author says: "The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899