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Here is what you can’t see from the rear mezzanine of a theater: the flocked velvet, the ruby-like rhinestones, the layered fabrics that shape a lush rosette atop each dance pump.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

Far off, on the slope of a low, bordering hill, the red doors of a barn glowed ruby-like in the transfiguring sun.

From Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

On the parched lips of the sick girl appeared ruby-like drops of blood; her eyes were opened very widely; to her forehead, which was damp from perspiration, some slender locks of pale, yellow hair adhered.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah

A small quantity of the oxide of gold tints glass pink, but the colour becomes extremely rich and ruby-like, when a larger quantity of the oxide is employed.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by Arnoux, L.

The deep, ruby-like red of the one and the mixed indefinite tint of the other seem to have curdled into the exact shade for each particular spot, their fitness is so perfect.

From Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples by Wheeler, Candace