It was strange they should be on display in a shop that specialized in costly gems.

Set with costly gems and embellished with strange carvings, it resembled a demon's forepaw from some drugged nightmare.

But Cartiff, the great jeweler, would be expected to wear very large and exceedingly costly gems.

Poirot said a few words in praise of some of the costlier gems displayed on the lady's ample bosom, and she brightened up at once.

Sabrina gasped at the costly gems as he fastened it around her throat.

Just an overly numerous series of thefts of cheap trinkets and costly gems, with women the chief sufferers.

Martingale's handle some of the most costly gems in New York.

But both cenotaphs are inlaid with flowers made of costly gems, and with the ever graceful oleander scroll.

Inlaid with flowers made of costly gems--5.

They used to scrawl curses on the hood or empty the contents of garbage cans on the Mercedes or other costly gem.