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Example sentences for "jewels"

Lexicographically close words:
jeweller; jewellers; jewellery; jewells; jewelry; jezail; jiang; jib; jibbeh
  1. There was further mention of the Necklace of Algol; it was second only to the Crown Jewels of the Shan himself.

  2. Either they are not the ones stolen from Belgezad or else Belgezad has mortally insulted his Shan by wearing false jewels to the Coronation.

  3. If it were as easy to steal jewels from the palace as all that, nothing would be safe on Thizar.

  4. She was, as usual, robed in black, wearing no jewels except a gold collar round her neck.

  5. She stood near the end of the line with the princesses of secondary rank, and the jewels in her hair were not more scintillant than her eyes as he bent over her hand.

  6. It was the jewels of my wife, Lady Aveling, which attracted these scoundrels to the house.

  7. His estates were soon confiscated and he was forced to flee into the night with his wife and daughter, carrying only the jewels and valuables to which he could lay his hands.

  8. Then De Baçan put the rest of the jewels back in the girdle and fastened it about him.

  9. Although I had a great treasure about me in jewels and money, I was at a loss for a safer place and felt that I might rest secure there until the morrow, when a Protestant vessel would be sailing for the Seine.

  10. The cleric lowered his head to conceal his cupidity; but took the jewels quickly, putting them inside his gown, mumbling the while some Latin words to himself.

  11. Nor to Captain Hooper’s agent,--I was ruined, and could picture the face of that oily Frenchman as I told him the jewels were gone.

  12. With the strongest admonitions to secrecy, I had told them of the jewels about me, of my plans and of my suspicions; for I wished, if anything happened to me, that the Sieur de la Notte should be informed.

  13. It was enough that I was in the hands of this Spaniard and that my girdle of jewels and gold was stolen.

  14. Accordingly I also made arrangements through the agent to have this great treasure converted into jewels that I might convey it the more easily.

  15. Then the Adelantado ran the jewels through his fingers.

  16. These jewels shall go with me to the Biscayan ports and we will have a fleet and company of men great enough to take the islands of Elizabeth if need be.

  17. But he knew that she had greatness also of a different kind, and he loved the small jewels in his crown as well as the glorious treasures of its larger wealth.

  18. By this time the strong sunshine pierced in a thousand places the pine-thatch of the forest, fired the red boles, irradiated the cool aisles of shadow, and burned in jewels on the grass.

  19. The jewels of Queen Zer, and other jewels consisting of cut turquoise, lapis lazuli and amethyst, found by the French mission, date from 4777 B.

  20. He also wrote monographs on The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906) and James VI.

  21. Among church jewels in Europe are a few diamonds of unknown age and source, cut four-sided, with a table above and a pyramid below.

  22. The jewels you have had from me to deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a votarist.

  23. Live Roderigo, He calls me to a restitution large Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him, As gifts to Desdemona; It must not be.

  24. When their mother heard this sad announcement, she prayed Heaven to remove such an intention from her sons, and prevent her losing seven such jewels as they were.

  25. My friends are honorable women, who would seek to steal my jewels rather than seek to steal from me my husband's love.

  26. He knew of many churches where there were jewels and other valuables still remaining.

  27. Day had turned from the jewels and was coming toward her father.

  28. He wandered all over the island--islands, I should say, for once or twice I saw him banging off in a creaky motor-boat to the other jewels of the necklace.

  29. Within her breasts as within hard jewels move the liquids of love.

  30. It seems that these jewels had come into his possession in a peculiar way.

  31. Thus the great hairy Bourdon, in the course of its peregrinations across the wastes of thyme, sometimes foolishly strays into the lair of the Tarantula, whose eyes glimmer like jewels at the back of his den.

  32. If a person finds himself possessed of some twenty or thirty rupees, he either puts it into jewels for the female members of his family, or lends it at an exorbitant rate of interest.

  33. No jewels that she could have worn would have rivalled her eyes in brilliancy; and as for the small, brown feet--Charmides surveyed them covertly with unique enjoyment, and could not remember to have seen a sandal fit to grace them.

  34. A band of flashing jewels held her head-cloth in place above her eyebrows, and she waddled along to a jingling accompaniment of bells that were fastened on her ankles and strings of dangling beads that hung from her waist.

  35. Fabulous stories were told of the beauty and rarity of the vegetation, and of the value of the jewels which were supposed to decorate the temple and royal apartments.

  36. The loss of the Sellingworth jewels in Paris had caused a sensation in the midst of which Lady Sellingworth was silent.

  37. And with the few thousands I'd saved up, and selling such jewels as I had, I could make up the sum Raoul had been told to ask for the necklace.

  38. If the bag had been stuffed full of the most gorgeous jewels in the world, at that moment I shouldn't have been interested in the least.

  39. If I chose, I could tell him that the jewels were safe.

  40. Those jewels had been stolen only a few days ago from Monsieur du Laurier, and he was in despair at their loss, for they belonged to a dear friend of his--an inveterate gambler, but an adorable woman.

  41. On his way there the necklace was stolen by an expert thief, who must somehow have learned what was going on through the pawnbroker with whom the jewels had been in pledge--for a few thousand francs only.

  42. How radiant she looked, in her robe of sapphire velvet, jewels at her breast and girdle, a mantle of ermine hanging from her shoulders.

  43. But brighter than any jewels were the eyes full of love and tears; and softer than softest velvet, the beautiful hair which, covered her, as with a golden veil.

  44. She put it on; with jewels at her breast and girdle.

  45. This was but a comparative trifle, though the jewels are precious, and there are none more valuable in Saxony.

  46. They only spared our lives, for a time, in order to learn where our jewels were kept.

  47. They asked me several questions, but I could not reply; and I think they learned from the frightened servants where the family jewels were kept.

  48. With the jewels in one pocket, and the Portugoose's pistol in the other, I started running back the road we had come.

  49. I lusted for that treasure of jewels and gold.

  50. Far from human quest he sleeps his last sleep, and perhaps on a fragment of bone washed into a crevice of rock there may hang the jewels that once gleamed in Sheba's hair.

  51. Your earthly treasure is in the boxes, but soon you will be seeking incorruptible jewels in the deep deep water.

  52. I was about to share the experience of all treasure-hunters--to be left with jewels galore and not a bite to sustain life.

  53. Give me my life, and I will take you to the place and put the jewels in your hand.

  54. I slipped the jewels far into the hole, where they lay on the firm sand, showing odd lights through the dim blue water.

  55. Then I restored the jewels to their old home, and found their cool touch on my breast very comforting.

  56. Once he got the jewels my side of the bargain was complete.

  57. I thrust in my hand and gathered up the jewels from the cool sand.

  58. Henriques killed the priest, and would have bagged the jewels if I had not laid him out.

  59. He fell limply on the ground and the jewels dropped from his hand.

  60. I emptied my boots and wrung out my shirt and breeches, while the Prester's jewels were blazing on my neck.

  61. After all, the jewels might be paste and worth nothing.

  62. Even though, in sending the jewels she had found to be appraised, she told herself she had no other intention beyond, if possible, getting enough money to repay the loan she had so unwisely taken.

  63. Jewels which if sold would buy her freedom, perhaps save her, and Dan too, from a great mistake.

  64. Who was to say that the pot had not been stolen, jewels and all?

  65. The ordinary jewels of her class might have aroused memories in the old man, and she wished to impress him with her individuality.

  66. And the big sahib was going to Delhi, the most likely place in which jewels would be sold.

  67. To see a woman in native dress in that room set round with eyes; the Ayodhya pot in her hand, and in her tinsel-edged veil the jewels which had fallen from its false bottom.

  68. But for him she would not have been tempted; but for him she would never have kept the discovery of the jewels secret--if indeed it was a discovery.

  69. As he stooped to gather up the jewels his eyes were dim with unwonted tears--why, he scarcely knew.

  70. She had meant no harm, yet George had given her the pot, and Dan had taken the jewels to Manohar Lal's.

  71. Besides, it would be wiser to wait and see if the presence of jewels in the pot were suspected by any one or not.

  72. So you took the jewels and sold them to Manohar Lal for six thousand rupees.

  73. And if the jewels had been put there knowingly, it was only her risk.


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