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• "But to yonder pavilion . . . the moon is glimmering on the gilded ball which crowns its roof, and which is worth a king's ransom."
• These gold, silver and pewter pieces are part of a king’s ransom of Spanish treasure salvaged from the sea off Florida where they had lain for 250 years.
• “[...]This commercial message is sponsored by Lebenthal in the heartfelt belief that we’re not the only ones who are going to miss the bonds when they’re gone and it costs a king’s ransom to turn on the lights, boil water, or haul the garbage.”
• Solving longitude was one of the major preoccupations of European nations from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. King’s ransoms were offered for its solution.
• Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king's ransom of diamonds.
• "But to yonder pavilion . . . the moon is glimmering on the gilded ball which crowns its roof, and which is worth a king’s ransom."
• Except that Clarissa Astley would not have been decked out in a king’s ransom of diamonds.