It was a pretty toy in gold and tortoiseshell, with brilliants on the hinges, and had been given to Mr. Kelly on a certain occasion when he had been presented to his king at Avignon.
The diamonds were paste, and Mr. Wogan at last understood why Lady Oxford, when she gave her miniature set with brilliants to the Parson, had been so anxious that he should never part with it.
No expense had been spared in showing off her beauty; the arms and neck of the governor's daughter were loaded with splendid jewels, and a circlet of brilliantssparkled round her brow.
The words of the bad dream crawled about the diamonds still, but only for her: to others they were brilliants that suited her perfectly, and Grandcourt inwardly observed that she answered to the rein.
There are twenty-five rose diamonds in it, and twenty-five large brilliants that cannot be matched in London.
They are the finest brilliants ever I set eyes on; and I have handled a good many.
I often go past her shop in Unter den Linden, and see her through the window beyond all her brilliants and precious stones.
A diadem of brilliants was sent to be reset, a sensational gown composed, after repeated conferences with a great ladies' tailor, a pattern in seed pearls chosen for the embroidery of the long gloves.
A clear amethystine flame quivered over the coal, striking the opals and brilliants that ornamented her dress, till they burned like coals of living fire upon the snow of her arms and bosom.
The wretched woman wrung her hands, and waved them up and down in the firelight so rapidly, that the restless brilliants upon them seemed shooting out sparks of lightning.
For pity's sake, do not send me back into the great world naked and ashamed, without so much as a clasp of brilliants to fasten round my neck!
I wonder where they learned to know brilliantsfrom paste?
No gaudy slave to a fair one's brow Was the rose, or the ruby, or emerald now, But lighted with souls by the playful elves, The brilliants and blossoms seemed dancing themselves.
I thanked the King for my son, who looked at his decoration of brilliantsand did not feel its importance.
One day, his Majesty allowed me to carry home the famous crown of Agrippina, executed with admirable art, and formed of eight sprays of large brilliants handsomely mounted.
Into these, with a sort of clumsy trepidation, he began to pack the almost elusive portions of the gleaming mass of brilliantsfrom the recess.
She had the reputation of being very clever, and of being able, if it pleased her, to breathe scorpions as well as brilliants and roses.
It was a lady's handkerchief, the one she carried in her hand, a fragrant tiny square of batiste and lace drawn through a ring of brilliants that she presented to the bull-fighter in exchange for this honor.
He went out with his hat on the back of his head, twirling his gold-headed cane and admiring the big brilliants on his fingers.
Nor has it done so, for I have kept her brilliants and returned her--mine.
Her dress for the evening was of white satin, and the coronal of brilliants which flashed among the braids of her black hair was worthy to be the bridal-diadem of a queen.
The typical "oxygen star" is Beta Crucis, one of the brilliants of the Southern Cross; but the distinctive notes of its spectrum occur in not a few specimens of the helium class.
Similarly elaborate pendent earrings in seven sections composed of brilliants are seen in an original mezzotint portrait of Queen Charlotte by Thomas Frye (c.
With a wild cry she raised her beautiful arms, tore the splendid diadem ofbrilliants from her hair, and hurled it upon the floor.
A diamond of the most precious brilliants crowned her high and thoughtful forehead.
Among the Princess of Wales's wedding presents was a parure of splendid opals and brilliants from a design by the late Prince Consort, given in his name as well as in the Queen's.
Round his neck was a star with a striped ribbon, that was made of small brilliants and might be worth a hundred crowns.
Hardly was the service over and the last word of the concluding benediction uttered, when the gentleman wearing the handsome brilliants pressed hastily forwards, evidently intending to embrace the newly-married lady with much ostentation.
He had arranged the affair so cleverly that we were wholly unable to convict him, unless we should find him with the stolen brilliants in his possession.
He could melt down the settings and sell the gold; but not one of these brilliants would be marketable in Europe for many years.
It was a most clever plan; and now, no doubt, Crochard can sell the brilliants at his leisure.
But at present I find that I must return to Europe by La Bretagne; since, after the trouble I have taken, it is impossible that I should consent to part with the brilliants of His Highness the Grand Duke.
The lovely arms and hands were unburdened by jewels, and save the pearls around her throat and the aigrette of brilliants in the upper bandeau of her hair, she wore no ornaments.
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