The duke slipped off his rapier with a sarcastic smile and handed the weapon to the Captain of the Guard; but we could hear the clicking of the buckles as de Gie's trembling fingers tried in vain to unclasp his belt.
His sword hilt and the buckles on his shoes flashed with gems.
He wore his best deerskin breeches, his gray sort of blouse with a red belt, and low, clumsy shoes with his father's buckles that had come from France, and he was duly proud of them.
There were buckles of gems on her slippers, and stockings of strangely netted silk where the ivory flesh shone through.
They are a little tight, Delisse declares, and she will not dance in them, but they have beautiful buckles and great high heels.
The bright sunlight of those past London summers shone on their glossy coats, shone in the patent leather of the harness, shone and glittered on the plated bolts and buckles and ornaments.
After I had buckled the straps together I would have several pieces left with no buckles to correspond.
I distributed them in the bunk, and began to speculate on how I could ever put all those little straps and buckles together.
He was dressed in a broadcloth brown coat, light-colored breeches, and had silver buckles in his shoes.
He took my black bag, my winter coat, my new green silk petticoat that I got to wear with my slit skirt, the buckles off my dancing slippers, and the little silver frame that had Billy's picture in it.
She got sore and then I was sorry cause she has been awful good, and I gave her my best slipper buckles to make up.
Silks and satins, shoe buckles and powdered hair usually mark the high tide of imaginative originality among this sort of people.
And I saw the buckles sable on a memorial window in the chapel erected to another sister--also a nun--they are a terribly pious family.
She noted the cut of his clothes, the stiffness of his ruff, the size of the buckles on his shoon; from these to the colour of his hair and the healthy tan of his skin, nothing escaped her.
His doublet was of blue, slashed silk, his feathered cap was of a colour to match, and there were golden buckles to his shoes and golden hilts to sword and dagger.
I hope that none of those wicked reporters will guess that my new shoes with the cut-steel buckles cost thirty-five dollars.
He wore shoes with silver buckles and very high red heels, white-silver fringed gloves, a small muff of violet velvet; and carried in his hand a slender amber-headed cane.
Her commode was brightened by blue ribbons; she wore no mittens; and her shoe-buckles rivalled those of her grandmother.
Your heels are screwed fast to the floor, and those buckles are all padlocked.
Then, if you'll promise not to hurt me, I'll unlock your bucklesand unscrew your heels.
The Doctor tells me that poor old Mrs. Haze has got two buckles on her lungs!
His neighbors he did not abuse-- Was sociable and gay: He wore large buckles on his shoes.
Charles was so proud of this dress that he vowed he would never wear any other; but it did not last long, and buckles did not become the general fashion till the reign of Queen Anne.
By the bright moonlight Tom saw the lace ruffle round his neck, the satin of his knee breeches, the silk of his stockings, and the shining buckles on his shoes--the dress of bygone days.
His shoe buckles showed vacant jewel holders, and his sword hilt was without a precious stone, all giving evidence that their owner had been dealing with pawnbrokers.
He was a cavalier, every inch of him, from his long, dark, slightly curling hair to the golden buckles on his shoes.
Draught-reins sewed in one piece |Draught-reins sewed in one piece with end buckles only.
No two horses suit each other exactly as to length of body or neck, or the way of carrying the head, and yet you may see dozens of pairs of reins where the coupling-rein buckles have apparently never been changed!
In most harnesses there are two or three holes in the billet that buckles to the bit, so that the length may be changed also at the bit.
A rein splicer, or two double | buckles of different sizes.
Trace |bearers on the leaders from |the hames to the tug buckles are |permissible.
Cruppers with buckles on all horses|Cruppers on wheelers but not preferred.
From noon till night there was a madding nothing to do but polish bits and buckles and stirrups and ornamental silver.
Buckles on saddles are always a hidden menace and a constant danger.
I forgot to tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without tongues than on all the rest.
Buckles are made with a violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little framework of black iron.
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