rubye

a goldsmith of the Chepe, was with him in his chamber at the hour, and there they stole out a great emerode with a rubye, the said _Warren_ made the Abbot believe the rubye was a garnet, and so for that he paid nothing for the emerode, but £20.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 Various

(Gibbon ii. 123), and Mandeville makes the King of Mammera wear about his neck a “rubye orient” one foot long by five fingers large.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Cathay hathe gretly coveted that rubye; but he myghte never han it, for werre ne for no maner of godes.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Maria, cowntyng the Pater Nosters, right so this kyng seythe every day devoutly 300 preyeres to his god, or that he ete: and he berethe also aboute his nekke a rubye oryent, noble and fyn, that is a fote of lengthe, and fyve fyngres large.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And that rubye he schalle bere alle wey aboute his nekke: for zif he hadde not that rubye upon him, men wolde not holden him for kyng.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And whan thei chesen here kyng, thei taken him that rubye, to beren in his hond, and so thei leden him rydynge alle abouten the cytee.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

This emperour hathe in his chambre, in on of the pyleres of gold, a rubye and a charboncle of half a fote long, that in the nyght zevethe so gret clartee and schynynge, that it is als light as day.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And whan thei chesen here kyng, thei taken him that rubye, to beren in his hond, and so thei leden him rydynge alle abouten the cytee.

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

Cathay hathe gretly coveted that rubye; but he myghte never han it, for werre ne for no maner of godes.

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

Maria, cowntyng the Pater Nosters, right so this kyng seythe every day devoutly 300 preyeres to his god, or that he ete: and he berethe also aboute his nekke a rubye oryent, noble and fyn, that is a fote of lengthe, and fyve fyngres large.

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