The necklace had, in fact, made no end of trouble for several hundred putatively innocent and guileless passengers.
When she stopped he shot in a crisp question: "The necklace wasn't in the hat when delivered to me?
The necklace is safe," the girl's voice told him with the same deadly precision of utterance.
Yes, I admit I tried to steal the necklace in the Park tonight.
Have you paused to consider what would have happened to me if the inspector had happened to find that necklacein the hat?
The Cadogan collar, you know--some silly pearl necklace worth a king's ransom.
Miss Searle got me on the telephone a little after one last night; she said she'd found the necklace in the hat and was bringing it to me.
She nodded impatiently: "Oh, of course--with the lining half ripped out and the necklace missing.
On the following morning I met the old warrior who had put the necklace on me, and sat down talking to him.
We passed several kraals on our journey, at most of which the people came out and spoke to us, and every one who saw my necklace at once addressed me as "Inkosana.
He was very anxious to kill this lion, not only on account of the honour that would attend the performance, but also to obtain a necklace of its teeth and claws.
I ask you, men, does he not deserve the necklace of leopard's claws?
I had a diamond necklace and a collar, some native pearl earrings that hung nearly down to the waist, and a beautiful pair of diamond bracelets, and the great article of all was an immense diamond tiara.
Having ascertained that the earrings were double, and the necklace four times, the price of mine, I said they were exactly similar, and that I approved of them very much.
He himself was a man of fine bearing, with a great black beard, and a gold-embroidered sash stuck full of pistols and knives, and with poor Madame de Bourke's best pearl necklace round his neck.
A handsome necklace of bears' claws, fastened around his neck and depending over his massive chest, completed a costume of savage magnificence strikingly becoming to this lord of the prairies.
Then he lifted the necklace of bear's claws hanging around his neck and held it toward Al.
Suppose I promise to give you a diamond necklace of the value of, say five thousand pounds, the day I marry the Duchess!
This necklace was afterwards given by Beowulf to Hygd, ll.
Brisinga men) is the necklace of the goddess Freya; cf.
Hāma stole the necklace from the Gothic King Eormenrīc; cf.
Mr. Robert Morris] is himself English, and interested in all the large speculations founded in this country for Great Britain.
Morris he is entirely devoted to his correspondent, with whom he has been constantly connected in business and opinion.
About two years ago Mr. Robert Morris sent to France Mr. Gouverneur Morris to negotiate a loan in his name, and for different other personal matters.
King's executioners, over the head of the revolutionists, as a suspended sword.
Yet this is the trick upon which Jay's treaty is founded, so far as it has relation to the treaty pre-existing with France.
A baby necklace of her own, her mother’s tiny gold watch, and wedding ring, and a garnet necklace and bracelet.
She wore a gown of black chiffon with a green jade necklace and a band of green in her fashionably done fair hair.
Thou hast just as good a chance of doing so as thou hadst of finding the ruby, and the necklace and earrings.
She was the wife of one of the richest merchants in the city, and had just been at the Hemmam, where she had lost a valuable necklace and earrings.
Saying this, she left him, and soon returned, carrying in one hand the necklace and earrings, and in the other, a purse with the fifty pieces of gold.
She chose for her adornment a topaz necklace that seemed to sparkle with inward fire.
Sometimes swords were drawn and blood flowed over a bag of gold or a necklace of pearls.
When Artemisia opened it, out poured a magnificent doublenecklace of rubies, so large and pure that she could not help kissing him, at which the Spartan blushed like a boy.
Thais suggested, looking into his eyes and leaning forward on her arm so that the necklace of pearls slid across her bosom, half revealed under the folds of her robe.
As for Marie, she could hardly keep quiet on her knees: her silvernecklace fairly rattled on her shoulders with her excitement.
Pratt and Anne Wentworth attended me to bed, and I desired the last to put my pearl necklace into my dressing-box with the dressing-plate, with which she complied in her obliging manner and took the key as customary.
This also was ivory, with a necklace and girdle of small jewels inset.
The next day we past on the river in a water party and sillabubs at Richmond and what not; and evening come I asked for my necklace and--Lord bless me!
You say that you bought a necklace of diamonds to replace mine?
He did not like the idea; but he could not leave the necklace with that man.
Will you leave this necklace here for twenty-four hours?
Monsieur Lantin, beside himself with astonishment, took up the necklace and left the store.
Do you remember that diamond necklace you lent me to wear at the ministerial ball?
When Madame Loisel took back the necklace Madame Forestier said to her with a chilly manner: "You should have returned it sooner; I might have needed it.
Then she would wind the pearl necklace round her fingers, make the facets of the crystal gems sparkle, and say: "Look!
Then they went from jeweler to jeweler, searching for a necklace like the other, trying to recall it, both sick with chagrin and grief.
You must write to your friend," said he, "that you have broken the clasp of her necklace and that you are having it mended.
And they made a bargain that he should buy it back for thirty-four thousand francs, in case they should find the lost necklace before the end of February.
And thou shalt make a necklace to fit her neck,' said the Lord.
Worth de necklace of diamonds;' and both she and Kalee broke out into such a yell as made the house ring.
There is onenecklace worth fifteen thousand itself.
Snowdrop was ordered to be saddled: in a few minutes the happy girl was equipped, and provided with a coral necklace for the chief, and a pretty brooch, destined for her brother’s preserver.
Had she examined the necklace closely, even for a moment?
She says that she showed a necklace to the child, and to you, charming Katharina.
Her hands still moved mechanically, but she was lost in thought; she answered the child vaguely, and let her rummage in her open trunk till Mary pulled out the necklace that had been bereft of its gem, and hung it round her neck.
He raised the lid, and the first thing his hand came upon in the chest was the necklace with the empty medallion--it was as though some kind Genius were aiding him.
When Paula had finished her toilet and proceeded to take the necklace off Katharina, the empty setting, which Hiram's knife had bent, caught in the thin tissue of her dress.
I require nothing of you but that you should state before the court that you saw Paula's necklace at noon to-day, and that there was a gem hanging to it--a gem with Love and Psyche engraved on it.
Tell me, my darling, do you remember exactly what the necklace was like that you and Mary were playing with this afternoon?
Blood-red were the stripes on his swarthy cheek, And the necklace that girdled his brawny neck Was the polished claws of the great Mató[14] He grappled and slew in the northern snow.
A necklace and two armlets, such as are worn by the negro girls, were taken from the stomach!
One of his wives followed his example, and resisted a shock with great determination, and after many attempts she succeeded in extracting a necklace from a basin of water so highly charged, that her hand was completely cramped and paralysed.