Inside the dressing-case was Lady Sinclair's jewel case, which had been stolen on the journey up from Brighton.

Then placing in the chief's hands an open jewel-box containing a variety of the choicest jewellery, I requested by signs his permission to offer them to the ladies.

Even Mr. Powis, my right-hand man, in all that African affair, has deserted me, and left me like a single dead pine in one of your clearings, or a jewel-block dangling at a yard-arm, without a sheave.

The Princess has been ransacking her memory all about her affairs with your cousin; she's more certain than ever now that nobody in Russia but he and she knew anything about the jewel deal.

No sooner does he speak of the daughter, Ginevra by name, than in she comes, jewel-casket in hand,which leads the cynical Greek Chorus to suppose that Mademoiselle is either clairvoyante or prefers going about with a box.

"Of course he is not a jewel merchant.

For give it to somebody he did, and that somebody was a person who knew of the jewel transaction, and employed Lydenberg in it, and sent the photo to Lydenberg so that he should know your cousin by sightat once.

Imagination ran riot there, gazing down upon those jewel-pits.

He does not know a jewel rare Is all his own.

At their feet lay little jewel bags containing the pearls of which Norma had talked, the rose topazes, the dozen cameos.

In the primrose-tinted sky The wan little moon Hangs like a jewel dainty and rare.

The sun struck off points from the water, animating it with a jewel-dance.

There are lawyers among them, he says, as well as jewel diggers and fishermen.

Vast distances opened on all sides; the sparkling air, brilliant with what seemed a kind of suspended jewel-dust, made every object visible at an incredible remoteness.

above your breasts Glitters no flash of wreathen amulet Forged against sword-stroke by the chanted rhythm Of charms accurst; but in each steadfast heart Blazes the light of cloudless purity, That like a splendid jewel glorifies With restless fire the gold that spheres it round, And marks you children of our God, whose lives He guards with the awful jealousy of love.

The Temple shakes, the sounding gates unfold, Wide vaults appear, and roofs of fretted gold, Raised on a thousand pillars wreathed around With laurel-foliage and with eagles crowned; Of bright transparent beryl were the walls, The friezes gold, and gold the capitals: As heaven with stars, the roof with jewels glows, And ever-living lamps depend in rows.

I tell thee, Cedric, a jewel hast thou found.

Nor they unblest, Who underneath the world's bright vest With sackcloth tame their aching breast, The sharp-edged cross in jewels hide.

But love, or rather an infernall hagge, Envying Saxons greatnes and his joyes, Hath given me nothing but a trifling glove, As if by the proportion of the case Art had the power to know the jewels nature.

Above them rose the forest trees, enormous now, yet tamed by Lenotre's marvellous art, resembling a regiment of giants perfectly drilled; the grass was like carpets on all sides; the sky blazed like a blue jewel overhead; the noise of singing birds and falling water was in the air.

Round the palm-stems, round the creepers, Flashed a feathered jewel past, Ruby-crested, topaz-throated, Plucked the cocorite bast, Plucked the fallen ceiba-cotton, {333} Whirred away to build his nest, Hung at last, with happy humming, Round some flower he fancied best.

In Maud, the lover sings "...whenever a March-wind sighs, He sets the jewel-print of your feet In violets blue as your eyes," and he tells how "the soul of the rose" passed into his blood, and how the sympathetic passion-flower dropped "a splendid tear."

I had expected as I moved the locket to hear the jewel rattle in the inside, but there was no sound, and then I thought that the diamond might cleave to the side with damp, or perhaps be wrapped in wool.

On top of the £30,000 jewel robbery comes the news that a man has been charged with breaking into a London tobacconist's shop and stealing a box of matches value 1/2d.

Soon upon this island's shrine Shalt thou like a jewel shine, Dearest of its treasure-trove, Emblem of a deathless love From its sepulchre set free, "Conjugi Carissimae." THE PAGAN PAST What sylvan god was worshipped here?