Then you will give me Queen Alma's bracelet--the great heirloom of our family?
If the old silver bracelet was a Gypsy heirloom and had been handed down through the Costello tribe--as the junkman claimed--for three hundred years and more, of course it would not be considered stolen property.
She mentioned it on her deathbed, and foretold that no good fortune was to be expected for the Feuerbergs until the sacred heirloom was recovered, and made a symbol of the healing of the family feud.
But beside emotion, and stronger than emotion, was the anger that August roused in him: he hated and despised himself for the barter of the heirloom of his race, and every word of the child stung him with a stinging sense of shame.
You will find it true," said his father, doggedly, and angered because he was in his own soul bitterly ashamed to have bartered away the heirloom and treasure of his race, and the comfort and healthgiver of his young children.
It--why, it's an heirloomand I'm going to get it patched up.
With his box of tools and his cunning hands Hen had taken old, broken but still beautiful heirloom furniture and refashioned it into new life and beauty.
Peace Seeds and Abundant Life offer long lists ofheirloom vining dry bean varieties.
Sprawly heirloom summer squash varieties can desiccate an 8-or 9-foot-diameter circle.
Beans of All Sorts Heirloom pole beans once climbed over considerable competition while vigorously struggling for water, nutrition, and light.
This makes a built-in conflict: most of the sprawly, huge, old heirloom varieties are rather late to mature.
Alan Kapuler, who runs Peace Seeds, has brilliantly pointed out to me why heirloom varieties are likely to be more nutritious.
If I had to choose only one variety it would be the old heirloom [Large] Red Cherry.
Actually, the larger, more sprawling heirloom varieties of the past were not a great deal less productive overall, but only a little later to begin yielding.
But the old well was far too deep to give up this heirloom and family treasure, which was gone beyond Gelsomina's tears to recover.
It descended to Cooper from his mother, Elizabeth Fenimore, and is now treasured as a family heirloom by his grandson, James Fenimore Cooper of Albany, New York.
These included Professor Duke's heirloom watch and a number of the things lost by our friends.
With charming hesitation, she turned to make a suitable apology to Carter, when, as her eyes fell before his ardent gaze, they rested upon Carrick's heirloom lying on the table.
That the jewels are a family heirloom is quite enough to establish the fact that I can have no possible claim upon them.
But I find that he is only a dear friend, with whom you take long country drives--and who gives you heirloom volumes of Byronic poetry.
It is a sad reflection to note that the entire wealth which constituted the national heirloomof the Transvaal will have been wasted, and comes far short to cover the actual war expenditure.
Are you aware that the hypocrisy you manifested once has been handed down to me as an heirloom of polluted possession, and stored within this breast of mine, an indelible stain for life, or, I might say, during your known and hated existence?
Dunfern mansion was handed down as an heirloom since its purchase by Walter, third Earl of Dunfern, in 1674; and since then has been tenderly cared for internally, and carefully guarded externally, by the skilful hands of noted artisans.
Their religious ideas were an heirloom from remote ancestors.
It has been supposed that municipal government in the Middle Ages was a revival of old Roman rights and customs, and thus anheirloom from antiquity.
At this period the continental states of Greece had produced little in that literature which is now the heirloom of the world.
Any owner of such heirloom may dispose of it during his lifetime, but he cannot bequeath it by will away from the estate.
An heirloom in the strict sense is made by family custom, not by settlement.
Create an Heirloom Catalogue Family treasures are passed along from generation to generation.
Cataloging an heirloom rediscovers and records the past and, through the memories of you and others, builds another bridge from the past to the present.
Mr. Whittier was greatly pleased, upon his arrival, to find in his room the heirloomwhich was hallowed by so many associations connected not only with his ancestry, but with his own early life.
The mirror in this room is an heirloomof the Whittier family, dating at least a century before the birth of the poet.
This jewel was an heirloom in a very ancient family; but great misfortunes overtook them some years ago.
Rather strangely, madame has chosen another heirloom disposed of by the same family," returned the man, as he placed the old blue-enameled watch in a box filled with pink cotton.
I can account for it only in the supposition that the mischief was inhered,--an heirloomfrom the old sea-kings of the ninth century.
The great clock at the head of the staircase, an old and respected heirloom of the family, struck one.
Dream not that duty can bar thee from beauty, Like water and sunshine, the heirloom of all.
Oui, messieurs, art is an heirloomin our family; we hand it down from generation to generation.
