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We lived as if in a place made of semiprecious stones.

"But there are a great many semiprecious stones, and this is very pretty," he told her.

Wood can be made to look like marble or semiprecious stone.

"But the image of trying to create gold from semiprecious metals seemed appropriate."

After the war, American businessmen started coming here as the city became a trading center for semiprecious stones.

A particular piece can be made of materials that are precious, semiprecious or a combination.

There was a weird animal form carved from a semiprecious stone.

Almost every trip he brings me a small sack of semiprecious stones.

What have your semiprecious stones to do with a case of kidnapping?"

The culture's graves often included ceramic art and semiprecious stones.

It has been suggested that a local cottage industry could have started making semiprecious jewelry.

You find a necklace of semiprecious stones that takes your fancy.

Many were also carved from semiprecious stones and worn on a string.

He studded the inside walls with chunks of semiprecious stone.

When dry, the gold detail is polished with semiprecious stones.

Some shells used in this way are decorated with metal and semiprecious stones.

Hung out there alone, then, like a semiprecious moon, implausible.

Of course, well-known artists who work with 14-karat gold and semiprecious stones command much more.

But these stones, though also minute, were semiprecious jewels that generated their own fire.

The throne was mostly intact, a few semiprecious stones missing.

There were, perhaps, fifty or sixty stones in it, mostly semiprecious.

It was a large piece of polished semiprecious stone.

The jewel once more looked like a dull green, semiprecious stone of no great rarity.

His line was handmade silver things set with turquoise and other semiprecious stones.

A few semiprecious stones were added for their shape and colors, never to add intrinsic value.