Having the glory of God, and the light thereof was like to a precious stone, as to the jasper stone even as crystal.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation.
The Lady Gotelinde / such honors high again Did pay in gracious manner / to the guests afar from Rhine That of all the strangers / found ye never one That wore not rich attire / from her, and many a precious stone.
When now the night was ended / and came forth the dawn, From chests they carried with them, / full many a precious stone Sparkled on costly raiment / by hand of lady sought.
Sparkled from their bridles / full many a precious stone.
Her rich apparel glittered / with many a precious stone, And with a ruddy beauty / her cheeks like roses shone.
CAMEO, a precious stone cut in relief; consists generally of two or three different colours, the upper cut in relief and the under forming the ground.
He gave her a nose ring, wherein was set a precious stone, half a shekel in weight, foreshadowing the half-shekel which her descendants would once bring to the sanctuary year by year.
The ark was illuminated by a precious stone, the light of which was more brilliant by night than by day, so enabling Noah to distinguish between day and night.
And she dressed Isaac therewith, and she put a turban upon his head, and she fastened a precious stone in the top of the turban, and she gave them provisions for the road.
Crowning all, upon the golden throne, lay a precious stone, round in shape and gigantic in size.
But it is a far cry to Italy from the forests of Cambodia and the sources of the Nile.
As the beetle crawls round and round, it will coil the thread about the nail, thus shortening its tether and drawing nearer to the centre at every circuit.
Sidenote: Inceptive Axes and Points of Concentration] The semi-precious or precious stone is commonly found to be the point of concentration of these designs.
As can be readily seen, a semi-precious stone is the controlling factor in the major portion of the designs with silver as a background.
A precious stone of a rich green color; it is the most valuable variety of beryl.
A precious stone of a carmine-red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red.
A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy, beauty of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
High on a thousand pillars raised With gold and precious stone it blazed, Guarded by giant warders, crown And ornament of Lanká’s town.
He sat upon a crystal throne Inlaid with wealth of precious stone, Whereon, of noblest work, was set A gold-embroidered coverlet.
Fair houses reared their stately height Of burnished gold and lazulite, And glorious was the lustre thrown Through lattices of precious stone.
Some take the form of a penannular wire loop holding a thimble-shaped cage of filigree, the flat end of which is closed, and has in the centre a setting for a precious stone.
Generally a kind of delicately formed bouquet of precious stone in very light setting, it continued long in fashion, together with strings of pearls among the hair.
It was of vast extent, adorned with stairs of jewels; its walls were of gold, it glittered with many pillars of precious stone; and the spacious translucent body of the edifice was built of blocks of the moon-gem.
It gleamed with palaces that had bright pillars of precious stone, walls flashing with gold, and latticed windows of pearl.
Its walls of precious stone were, so to speak, adorned all round with living pictures, on account of the reflections on them of the lovely waiting-women.
They also say that, for the marriage-feast of Adam and Eve, God made a table of precious stone, and each gem was a hundred ells long and sixty ells wide, and the table was covered with costly dishes.
The plan of the temple was furnished by Gabriel, who also contributed a precious stone, but this stone afterwards, through the sin of men, turned black.
The angel who ruled over the winged fowls extended to Solomon a precious stone, with the inscription, “Let all creatures praise the Lord!
Now Joseph was three days and three nights in the pit, but it was not dark, for the angel Gabriel hung in it a precious stone to give him light.
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