jewel (n.)

jewel (v.)

Consistency, thou art a jewel.

O discretion, thou art a jewel!—The Skylark, a Collection of well-chosen English Songs. (London, 1772.)

Unless experience be a jewel.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): Astrophel and Stella, i. Second Song.

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night

Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,

Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;

And this our life, exempt from public haunt,

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,

Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.

If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies,

And they are fools who roam.

The world has nothing to bestow;

From our own selves our joys must flow,

And that dear hut, our home.

Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788): The Fireside. Stanza 3.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Old Testament: Proverbs xi. 22.

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just!

Shining nowhere but in the dark;

What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,

Could man outlook that mark!

Henry Vaughan (1621-1695): They are all gone.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,

Is the immediate jewel of their souls:

Who steals my purse steals trash; 't is something, nothing;

'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thousands;

But he that filches from me my good name

Robs me of that which not enriches him

And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

She is mine own,

And I as rich in having such a jewel

As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,

The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.