... The snake-clasp was no flimsydevice of modern jewellery, and I had no fear but that it would hold...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... As befitted the women of plutocrats, they wore much jewellery, some of it set in their noses...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...A very pretty whim, to count the jewellery of his famous sonnets assecond in importance to the nomenclature of a vegetable! I in my turnwas delighted with his ayacot...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...How well he deserves his name! Hiscolouring is a metallic red, which flashes with the fire of rubies;and he sets off this splendid jewellery by studding his corselet withgreat spots of glowing black...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Many other series, of greatly varied habits, Carabi,1 Cetoniæ,Buprestes, Chrysomelæ,2 rival and even surpass the magnificentDung-beetles in the matter of jewellery...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Herboots were of a colour to match the pelisse; and amassive gold chain round her neck, and a solitary pearlring on a middle finger, were all the jewellery she displayed...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
...Sponge would not take any part of thepurchase-money in pictures or jewellery, or anything of that sort, Mr...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Having no jewellery, theyuse little of the precious metals; iron, bronze, enamels, wood and lac,being the chief materials utilised in the decorative arts of Japan...
Richard Glazier 「A Manual of Historic Ornament」
...; the vase showing a coursingmatch with the hare and hounds in relief, coins, pottery, brooches, andother jewellery...
W.D. Sweeting 「The Cathedral Church of Peterborough」
...The women of England, saysWilliam of Poitiers, were famous for their needlework,the men excelled in metal-work and jewellery...
John W. Bradley 「Illuminated Manuscripts」
...A heavy gold watch-chain and diamond ring is derigueur, but otherwise they do not wear much jewellery...
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 「Town Life in Australia」
...And the elder sister or young mother, opening the parcel, would find a piece of jewellery or a costly article of dress, and wonder who sent it...
Henry Lawson 「Children of the Bush」
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