Oh, he's a pearl of purest ray serene, if anybody should slide down a backstay and ask you.

"There is a reason for this effect," said Cugel, "which in due course will be one shining with the purest ray imaginable."

No noxious glare shall accompany your pure rays, and men shall always call you 'blessed.

That was fiction of the purest ray serene.

He was a longtimer of the purest ray serene.

It was as if overcast skies had parted to reveal a pure and luminous ray of sunlight.

But "many a gem of purest ray serene" occurs in the obscurity of the rubber bridge table and never comes to light.

He looked down his nose at them because they were, for the most part, blockheads of the purest ray serene.

He has proved himself a liar of the purest ray serene.