With trembling fingers he folded his spectacles, and crammed them into the shagreen case.
Raphael shouted, beating Emile with the piece of shagreen as if he meant to draw electric fluid out of it.
The young man rose abruptly, and showed some surprise at the sight of a piece of shagreen which hung on the wall behind his chair.
The inner room, however, was empty; but the glass door which gave on to the garden stood open, and picking up the shagreen case, I stepped out on to the lawn.
The parcel contained a shagreencase which Ilga unfastened.
Solander had lost an opera-glass in a shagreen case, and Mr. Markhouse had been relieved of a valuable snuff-box.
After great effort and a long delay, the shagreen case was recovered; but the opera-glass was not in it.
I took it from an inner pocket and displayed it, having discarded the shagreen case as inconvenient.
It lay in a small shagreen case, and, before the Marquis left, the solicitor placed the case in a flat leathern box, where lay a chain of most singular workmanship, the clasp of which was deranged.
Whether he knew the individual in question or not, the threat was efficient; he trembled and hesitated, and finally drew the identical shagreen case from his bosom.
He took a shagreen letter case From his pocket, and with charming grace Offered me a printed card.
During these proposed depravities Raikes had closed and fastened the door, seated himself at the table, and pressed the spring which detained the lid of the shagreen case.
Well," continued the Sepoy, "kindly put your hand in my right vest pocket and withdraw a small case of shagreen which you will find there.
A burning fever surged through his veins; an irresistible impulse overwhelmed; for there, in inconceivable negligence, lay the shagreen case which he had so reluctantly returned to its owner only the night before.
As Gratz complied with this instruction, the lid of the shagreen case flew open and revealed the superb sapphire which had radiated such insidious depravity into the mind of the miser.
And taking a littleshagreen case from his waistcoat pocket, he put it into her hand.
One or two red shagreen dots on segments 10-4 in the position of the ring-spots of Fig.
The shagreen dots below the ring-spots have increased in size, but have not yet coalesced.
We know these ancient sharks only by the spines, shagreen tentacles and the teeth.
The shark has no true bones and its covering consists of shagreen tentacles.
He was clad in sandals, a skirt and a broadshagreen girdle.
He was clad in a sort of skirt and a shagreen girdle.
A crimson scarf was knotted about his head; his wide silk breeches, of flaming hue, were upheld by a broad sash which likewise supported a scimitar in a shagreen scabbard.
Among these treasures she turned out, at the bottom of the chest, a case of shagreen with a leather thong.
He opened the parcel, and disclosed the shagreencase which we have already seen in the sea-chest.
She searched the pockets, found a shagreen case, Replaced the fly, noticed a golden stamp Filling the middle space.
Before her, on a chair, lay the shagreen Case of his violin.
Traquair, these tubercles are shagreen granules which have coalesced and become united to plates formed in a deeper layer of the skin, as in Ateleaspis the minute scales have run together into polygonal plates.
Their skin is used as shagreen or sandpaper in polishing furniture.
The dermal covering is highly specialized, theshagreen denticles being much enlarged and thickened, often set in little squares suggesting a checker-board.
Perhaps the sharks are developed from the still more primitive shark imagined as without limbs and with the teeth slowly formed from modification of the ordinary shagreen prickles.
In favor of this view is the character of their armature, the bony plates themselves to be regarded as formed by the fusion of shagreen grains or scales.
Having got to the large BY ORDER at the end, he calmly dismounted the benignant silver spectacles, returned them to the shagreen case, and so to the tail-pocket of his black coat.
His linen was the most spotless broidered and embossed stuff; îrom the crimson scarf round his waist protruded the shagreen and silver handle of a long dagger.
Salazar himself drew an immense pointed knife with a shagreen hilt.
In fact, a box of shagreen leather, much like a miniature, was suspended from the ribbon.
Late Georgian Watch with dial and decorations in Battersea enamel and shagreen case.
This morning I found the green shagreencase on the dressing table; Hubert evidently refuses to let me off his present.
The best shagreen is prepared in Turkey, Persia, and Tartary, from the skins of horses and asses.
I thought," remarked Ernest, "that shagreen was made from asses' hide.
It would be beautiful shagreen if we could smooth and polish it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shagreen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buckskin; ermine; fur; hide; pelt
