On a private street beside a botanical garden, the hotel is a calm jewel set in a bustling city.
Thoreau understood — more than most, anyway — this "swiftest, wariest, and most ravenous of fishes... stately, ruminant... lurking under the shadow of a pad at noon... still, circumspect... motionless as a jewel set in water".
At Joe's Ginger, which sits on Mott Street in Chinatown in the manner of a jewel set into concrete, four hungry souls can eat like ravenous hogs for around $100.
This island had to be reimagined, treasured as the precious jewel set in the silver sea, and its people had to be recast, brought together in opposition to a hostile continent.
Abdullah, a translator as well as a secretary, writes of the Raffles' marriage that they were "of one mind, like a ruler and his minister, like a ring and the jewel set in it, like sugar in milk .The author is also magnificent on the customs and manners of the time.
As I gazed down at the mountain pass below, where woodsmoke curled from the chimney of Ryvoan bothy, and An Lochan Uaine glimmered emerald-green like a jewel set among the Scots pines, I noticed a pile of cylindrical pellets like stubbed out cigarette butts next to the path.
The stunning picture of the Eagle Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in November 1995 has become an icon of the age of space exploration, along with the Apollo bootprint in lunar dust and images of Earth as a glistening blue-and-white jewel set against the dark velvet of infinity.
One Devonshire Gardens is a Victorian jewel set among the mansions in the West End of Glasgow, spanning three converted town houses, formerly the homes of wealthy Glaswegian merchants.
Bellagio is a jewel set in the necklace of the Alps.
Mr. Harris takes a decidedly offbeat look at two famous lovers in "Rome and Jewels," setting the Shakespeare story in the ghetto in a dance that draws from hip-hop rough and tumble.
