Noun : His painting was the gem of the collection. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : gem color; a gem ruby. From Dictionary.com.
Where poised gemmed dragon-flies; and sudden moans. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
Almost half a hundred radiances gemmed the sphere of heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Then he brushed away the frozen tears that gemmed his lashes. From Wordnik.com. [FINIS] Reference
And within its walls are gathered a gemmed and jewelled crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
She glanced upon the jewels rich that gemmed her shining hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
The level of the tower's top was some feet below the gemmed ledge. From Wordnik.com. [Conan]
They trudged through bypaths where the bushes were gemmed with dew. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Float, O Flag of mystic colors; red with love; star-gemmed thy Blue. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He settled the starstone-gemmed coronet on the newest Imperial noble's head. From Wordnik.com. [Hostage A Terran Empire story] Reference
Reflections from the gemmed plates of the footgear danced over her delicate face. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
From Spenser Keats learned how poetry might be gemmed, how it might glow with color. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
As if conjured up by magic, a black arrow had sprouted suddenly from his gemmed gorget. From Wordnik.com. [Conan]
The Aiel did not wear rings, yet Sevanna had at least one be-gemmed ring on every finger. From Wordnik.com. [Knife of Dreams]
Instead of a helm a cap covered his head, its front turned up and fastened with a gemmed brooch. From Wordnik.com. [Year of the Unicorn]
Then later on that staunch man wrote in gemmed tracery words given hue by his heart's flower. From Wordnik.com. [Izutsu] Reference
The surface of grass lawns may be seen on autumnal mornings covered with tiny webs gemmed with dew. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
On the steps of the Paris stock exchange the goldskinned men quoting prices on their gemmed fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Others had been before him; not a bracelet, gemmed dagger, or silver breastplate rewarded his search. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
I could take in every minute detail of the flashing miracle of gemmed fires and its flaming ministers. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Cyprus -- while shadows still lay on the flower-gemmed plains that stretched between them and the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
Tarran sat very still, and the afternoon light glittered on the gemmed brooch where his arm used to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Krynn]
A short cloak lined with sables hang from his shoulder, and his delicate white hands were gemmed with rings. From Wordnik.com. [The Fisherman and His Soul] Reference
Westward they still gemmed a majestic darkness, for the solar radiance was wan where no heiphts reflected it. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
There were four pieces in all, gemmed and set in metal — their glitter sparking life clear across the room. From Wordnik.com. [Uncharted Stars]
"How pretty she looks!" they murmured softly, sparkling down their twinkling lights on the frost-gemmed city below. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference
She wore black robes of velvet, diamonds and rubies sewn into the seams, and her fingers sparkled with gemmed rings. From Wordnik.com. [Dalamar the Dark]
Beowulf tells all the tale of his doings in full to Hygelac, and gives him his gifts, and the precious-gemmed collar to Hygd. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
She was wearing no high coronet of diamonds, she was encased in no gemmed stomacher, and they had girt her with no jewelled sword. From Wordnik.com. [Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos] Reference
Then the light and the thought ceased to pulse beneath the tear-gemmed eyelids, and with a tired sigh of comfort he sank into sleep. From Wordnik.com. [FINIS] Reference
Now he pressed it as tightly as he might about the gemmed point of his wand, until the stone was covered with a cap of shining metal. From Wordnik.com. [Merlin's Mirror]
That night the sand was their bed, the skins they used for saddles their pillows, and the star-gemmed canopy above their only covering. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
The hound sensed rings of power, swords whose blades had struck down ogres, whose gemmed hilts wore runes of strength to turn back curses. From Wordnik.com. [Dalamar the Dark]
Lovely morning, the grey-white mist in the forest makes it like a dream of Fairyland, each moss-grown tree stem heavily gemmed with dewdrops. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
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