All day meeten men at unset steven: every day men meet at unexpected time.
Yet, nevertheless, in a few moments we were convinced of its reality, for time after time we thrust in our hands and allowed the unset gems to run through our fingers like beans.
It is true, too, that unset pearls couldn't be identified easily, if at all.
And he would remember picking up an unset ruby from the tiling and handing it to Mr. Doane.
Had she not been an unintentional eaves-dropper she could not have heard his offer to Lloyd of the unset turquoise, and all that followed.
He had had six months in which to grow accustomed to the idea that the little unset turquoise he had once given her could never stand for anything more between them than the "true-blue friendship stone.
In a panic I took my unset jewels and fled to Belgium.
But I had other jewels--unset diamonds given to my mother by Prince Haledine.
They areunset stones of rare beauty--diamonds, rubies, pearls, and other precious stones.
Mr. Barnes regretted this last fact, but felt that he held a most important paper in his hand, since it seemed to be corroborative of the woman's statement that she had lost a lot of unset jewels.
In it was found a red Russia leather case containing unset jewels of such size and lustre that one can well believe that they are worth a hundred thousand dollars as claimed.
Soon after, while I was out on that first surveying trip I came across some unset stones for a mere song.
So that the public knew only that Evans Rutledge had unset or broken the jaw of Congressman Smith because of some improper use of a young lady's name.
None of these things moved him from his purpose, however; nor did the cold wind nor a thirty minutes' flurry of sleetunset his resolution.
He touched them, moved them about, picked up several and examined them, testing the unset edges against his under lip as an expert tests jade.
A rainbow glitter streamed from the unset gems in the silken tray.
The trouble is that man stole a five-carat unset diamond from our store and came here to pawn it.
He gradually extended his knowledge to watches, and subsequently to jewelry, but the unset diamond line was a special branch that required an expert to deal with, and it was attended to by one clerk only.
On reaching home the beetles are, after a day or two, pinned, or gummed unset on to any pieces of card in any manner most suitable at the time to economise space; the cards can then be pinned into a store-box.
She took from her trunk a handkerchief and unwrapping it, produced theunset miniature.
They were unset stones, and came in from Amsterdam.
The kid was paying the long price--for twenty thousand dollars' worth of unset diamonds!
He had the message to-night--but he had not yet got that twenty thousand dollars in unset stones!
From their little box he allowed the score or two of unset stones to trickle into the palm of his hand, and again he brought the light to flash and play upon them.
It was no longer a question of twenty thousand dollars' worth of unset diamonds--it was a question of his life.
There was a chance yet, still a chance, a very good chance--for that twenty thousand dollars' worth of unset stones.
Some of these rings contained the finest of the diamonds, except for three splendid unset stones.
As soon as it is nearly set, with perhaps only a dessertspoonful of liquid left unset, turn the omelet over, one half on to the other half, in the shape of a semicircle, and bring the spoonful of unset fluid to join them over the edge.
A careful examination of one of these triplets, in the unset condition, with a good lens, will reveal the thin line of junction of the beryl with the glass.
To make the file test use only a very fine file and apply it with a light but firm pressure lengthwise along the girdle (edge) of the unset stone.
If the stone is unset one can see with a lens a wavery metallic appearance on the surfaces that have been "painted.
What light there was in the place scintillated on a layer of unset diamonds in the bottom of the bag.
There were one hundred thousand dollars worth of unset diamonds in that store tonight," Black Hood said.
To get back to the business at hand," the Eye said, "our next job is a small matter of one hundred thousand in unset jewels.
The wall is of stone unset in mortar, faced within and without with slabs set on end, and within the area are faint traces of cytiau or circular huts of stone, such as are traditionally attributed to the Irish.
The walls were of stone unset in mortar, and they have fallen and form a continuous mound of débris.
He touched them, moved them about, picked up several and examined them, testing the unsetedges against his upper lip as an expert tests jade.
Unset diamonds are an eminently portable species of property, and you might carry a tolerably valuable collection of them in the folds of the smallest parasol that ever faded under the summer sunshine in the Lady's Mile.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unset" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
