We bought a bottle or so of beer here; at any rate they called it beer, but I knew by the price that it was dissolved jewelry, and I perceived by the taste that dissolved jewelry is not good stuff to drink.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 by Mark Twain

I hope my dearest jewel is not going to leave me—are you, Nykin?
— from The Old Bachelor: A Comedy by William Congreve

To do this we have to produce more authoritative statements than our own would be, and bring the evidence of other scholars as great as Dr. Jowett, if not greater, specialists in their subjects, moreover, to bear on and destroy the arguments of the Oxford Regius Professor of Greek.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

By the way, mi amigo, know you that Don José is now Governor of Acauhtzin, in the absence of Don Hypolito?" "No, I did not know it.
— from The Harlequin Opal: A Romance. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Fergus Hume