The breast-pin that I wear with my gray silk was made from an earring of Grandmother Palmer's.
It was once an earring belonging to Grandma Hobart.
Eliezer "took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold".
Another earring is put in jar, and it is again full.
An earring is put in a jar and it is at once filled with gold, but Algaba lifts his eyebrows and half of the gold vanishes.
As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.
And every man gave him one ewe, and one earring of gold.
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Fefe gave a deep-mouthed and expressive grunt, as he laid his brown profile against the sunset sky, thereby displaying his solitary earring to the best advantage, and with evident personal satisfaction.
Fefe was in his element, sitting with his best side to the public, and flaunting his earring mightily.
Karim studied Hawksworth in silence, fingering his jeweled earring in thought as he recalled the morning's battle.
A process of sizing up seemed underway, of pondering whether this shipless captain with the bloodshot eyes and gold earring was really the man.
This you must wear in your left ear, where your gold earring is now.
A wry, portly man stepped forward and quickly removed the small gold earring from Hawksworth's ear.
And she said, The daughter of Bethuel Nabor's son, whom Malcah bare unto him: and I put the earringupon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
He colored a little, rubbed the medal and earring ruefully on his sleeve, replaced them in his trunk, and then hastily emptied the rest of the slipper's contents on the floor.
They were well dressed, and each wore the small golden Hadji earring in his left ear.
Tasman's Peninsula is, as we have said before, in the form of an earring with a double drop.
The upper drop of the earring was named Forrestier's Peninsula, and was joined to the mainland by another isthmus called East Bay Neck.
A single glance at the jewel enabled her to say that she had seen this earring before, and that the pair had been purchased from them by the Marchioness d'Arlange.
Then, I should have shown this earring to each maid in succession until I found one who said: 'That diamond belongs to my mistress,' or one who was seized with a nervous trembling.
The first time that you were lacking in discretion," said he, "was when you tried to discover the owner of the diamond earring found at the Poivriere.
He now drew from it the earring which had been found on the scene of the tragedy, and handing it abruptly to the prisoner, he asked: "So you didn't notice this in the ear of one of the women?
Perhaps it was that same diamond earring that the accomplice came to seek," ventured Father Absinthe.
The object he had found was an earring composed of a single large diamond.
Two women, one of whom had lost an earring valued at 5,000 francs, had witnessed the struggle--then disappeared.
The first step to be taken was to ascertain whom the earring had been bought from.
Over the upper part of the ear hang what appear to be three pendants; the lobe below is covered with an earring in the form of a circular flower of seven leaves.
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
If you think it is good it will be all right," said Aponitolau, so she took out the engagement gift and she put one earring inside of a little jar and it was filled with gold.
They let him see the one earring of Aponibolinayen.
Aponitolau lifted his eyebrows and half of the gold disappeared, so Ebang put another earring in the pot and it was full again.
He took one of her little pink ears in his fingers and screwed on the earring deftly.
As she moved, Cheniston passed the remaining earring to his sister.
They have the curious custom of wearing one large earring in the left ear.
The older men wore one large earring in the right ear, hose of a thick whitish woollen material, or brown or blue trousers which sometimes reached but a little below the knee, a white shirt, and a brown jacket hung over the shoulder.
He asks for the earringhe found, and with it its owner.
This is the firstearring that has been lost since I have been in office, and even that is found.
How strange, Miss Veronica, that your earringshould be found by such a renowned lawyer.
I am sure you have no idea to whom theearring belongs?
Then her pupil comes back to the carriage, mild as a lamb, arm in arm with the young man who had found her earring yesterday.
He stooped and picked it up; it was the lost earring with the emerald in it.
Josiah was about to put the earring into his pocket again, when she snatched it out of his hand, and ran out of the room.
Necklace, with brooch and earring en suite, of coloured gold set with amethysts and pearls.
Long earring of gold filigree mounted and hung with pearls.
The general type of earringthen in use is well shown in Rembrandt's portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels (about 1652), in the Louvre, where it takes the form of an elaborate pendant terminating with a big pearl drop.
The fashion subsequently came to England, where it was generally affected by the courtiers of Elizabeth and James I, as is clear from contemporary male portraits, where an earring is worn, as a rule, in one ear only.
