Evidently no reliance was to be placed on beads, so I had a brass bangle riveted on the arm of one, and an iron bangle on the arm of the other.
The evident determination of Mr. Horner to come to the point of asking papa brought Miss Bangle to a very awkward pass.
Miss Bangle had sat through the whole previous scene, trembling for herself, although she had, as she supposed, guarded cunningly against exposure.
So, their meeting passed off without the explanation which Miss Bangle began to fear would cut short her benevolent amusement.
The girl dropped her eyes and turning a gold bangle on her wrist gazed upon a ruby that had the contour of a serpent's head.
On the wrist of one arm was a curious gold bangle that must have held a large ruby, for at times the sun flicked from the moving wrist splashes of red wine.
I went into a jeweller's next and purchased a gold curb bangle (with padlock attached).
Maisie was terribly upset when she lost her gold curb bangle (with padlock attached) between the hospital and the canteen.
Wish the bangle on for me," I said hastily, at the foot of the stairs, which we were to ascend rather than expose my uncovered shoulders to the scandalized eyes of the man in the lift.
He paid and tipped the chauffeur, who handed back my bangle and darted off.
As he turned the bangle over in his hand, and the question in his mind, I heard quick steps coming along the dark street, and looking up, the taxi lights showed me Eagle March's face.
Eagle slipped the bangle over my hand, looking straight at me, as though wondering not only why I had come, but why I was so pale and strange.
He was stripped to the waist, with a wreath of white jasmine as thick as my wrist round his forehead, a salmon-colored loin-cloth round his middle, and a steel bangleon each ankle.
A broken glass-bangle stands for a Hindu widow all India over; because, when her husband dies a woman's bracelets are broken on her wrists.
When my inner self goes wrong, my bangle turns dusky.
She held up her right hand with an Indian silver bangle on it; and sure enough, it was tarnished with a very thin black deposit.
I also noticed that what she said about the bangle was strictly true; generally bright as a new pin, on certain mornings it was completely blackened.
The moment I land in England the bangle turns black and remains black till I get back to Lucerne again.
Next day the bangle was black, and Mrs. Evelegh lamented that her inner self must be suffering from an attack of evil vapours.
After the new hat, necklace and bangle bracelet had been duly admired, Tom and Gracie, his little cousin, sat down in the great arm chair to enjoy the bright fire and have one of their chats.
The bangle bracelet--mamma did not fancy bangles and Gracie did not expect to get that.
Roy sat looking from the letter to the bangle with a distinctly pleasant kind of mixed-up feeling inside.
You have a bangle there," said Nina, looking down on Babalatchi's upturned face and into his solitary eye.
Mahmat took the bangle eagerly and hid it in the folds of his waist-cloth.
She was dressed with exceeding smartness and wore several bangle bracelets that glittered and rattled and tinkled with every movement of her hands.
That evening Miss Barry gave Diana a silver bangle bracelet and told the senior members of the household that she had unpacked her valise.
The men often wear an iron bangle on the left wrist, which they say keeps off the lightning.
It is not stated what the bangle is made of, but it may be assumed that a valuable one would not thus be thrown away.
Thereupon she donned a devotee's dress and betaking herself to the goldsmith, said to him, "To whom belongeth the bangle which is now with the king?
Presently he bore the bangleto the Sultan and it pleased him greatly by reason of its goodly workmanship.
But his fingers played with the copperbangle on her wrist.
Here goes,” and before Imogen could prevent him, he had unfastened a bangle which he wore on his wrist, and hurled it far into the advancing tide.
The agreement was that whoever won was to wear the bangle till he or she was married.
A bangle bracelet can be easily made of hammered work, from a narrow strip of sheet-silver, which can be obtained from any silversmith at a small cost.
I recollected the bow of ribbon-velvet which reposed in my pocket, and the Indian bangle I had found.
A golden bangle of curious Indian design was lying upon the mantelshelf.
Bronze or copper bracelets,* closed or open and generally gilt, recall the Chinese bangle precisely, except when they are cast with a garniture of suzu.
The vulgar light revealed that the panting figure struggling from his grasp was that of his pretty neighbour who had slipped the bangle on his wrist.
When the gas was turned up it was discovered that one of the unbelievers actually had a large bangle on his wrist.
Oh, yes, I'd love to," and Madeleine slipped the pretty gold bangle on her wrist.
It was the sight of the bangle still on Madeleine's wrist that prompted this postscript, and then, taking her satchel, Betty softly opened the door and closed it behind her.
When at last the man awoke out of his stupor, to lift her up and carry her down to the path, he noticed that the bangle and the coin had both gone, wrenched off in that wild plunge through trees and stones into eternity--or oblivion.
And so the thing lived there day and night, and, when she moved, it made little musical sounds, singing its story to her willing ears, as it struck against the bangle from which it hung.
A young widow may wear gold bangles till her twentieth year, but she is not privileged to put on an iron bangle after the death of her husband.
The use of an iron bangle or bracelet has a deep meaning, it outlasts gold and silver ones.
Women wear on the right wrist a solid silver bangle called ghatti kadiyam, and on the left wrist two bangles called sandelu, between which are black glass bangles, which are broken when a woman becomes a widow.
