Sentence examples for several treasures from inspiring English sources

Mr. Campbell said the museum's Persian art collection includes several treasures, like the "Emperor's Carpet," an elaborately patterned 16th-century rug that got its name from its previous owners, the Hapsburg emperors, and an illuminated manuscript of the Persian epic known as the Shahnama, or Book of Kings, assembled in the courts of early-16th-century Persia.

The monastery's museum holds several treasures, including the Holy Book that Stephan carried when he went to battle.

Koons sold most of the artist's proofs of his earlier sculptures, along with several treasured works by Roy Lichtenstein and other artists, but that money went to pay the legal costs in his custody battle for Ludwig.

Several treasure-hunting expeditions would later be mounted on the basis of claims by a man named Keating, who was said to have befriended Thompson on his deathbed in Newfoundland.

Several Treasure Planet video games were released in 2002.

Of humble origin and poorly educated, he was a shipbuilder in Boston before embarking on several treasure hunting expeditions to the West Indies.

When the owner unsealed three fireplaces that had been covered up, he discovered several hidden treasures.

Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Man With a Pink," one of several international treasures, is back where it belongs in Morgan's study.

Much of Lavinia's pile ended up at Amherst College, the cornerstone of its special collections; Susan Dickinson's batch went to Harvard, along with several household treasures that had been preserved at the Evergreens.

Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which owns several ancient treasures of uncertain origin, insisted that the agreement would have no effect on the museum "for the simple reason that we would not wish to buy illicitly excavated materials, or materials without proper or with improper provenance".

With the stock exchange and several other treasure palaces of Thailand's globalised elite in flames, unrest spreading outside the capital and a curfew in effect in much of the country, it is not scaremongering to worry that civil war may ensue.The government would pooh-pooh such a notion.