rubied
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of rubied
Example Sentences
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Harry seized it by its rubied hilt and touched the tip of the blade to a silver flagon nearby, which did not multiply.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
They both looked at the ornate silver sword, its rubied hilt glinting a little in the light from Hermione’s wand.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
"Uncle Ken looks jolly ripping in a kilt," Merivale informed Miss Carthew, when on the last evening of Captain Ross's stay they were all sitting in the rubied light of the hotel table.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
She with her neeld composes Nature's own shape of bud, bird, branch, or berry; That even her art sisters the natural Roses, Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied Cherry.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
But Pope nobly revindicates his unparalleled power of translating funnily, when, in place of “the walls drip with blood,” he writes— “With sanguine drops the walls are rubied round.”
From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew
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