21 examples of finger-ring in sentences

For I have seen him bring down a hawk upon the wing, or throwing his finger-ring high into the air, pass his rapier neatly through it as it shot down past him.

In France, amulets formed of mistletoe were much worn; and in Sweden, a finger-ring made of its wood is an antidote against sickness.

" Leif gave her a gold finger-ring, a Greenland Wadmal mantle, and a belt of walrus tusk.

They who to gather roses camewent back With precious gemsand honorary robes; And two bright finger-rings were secretly Sent to the princess.

" "Ah!" rejoined Rustem, "can that be true?" upon which Sháh- showed him Sohráb's brilliant finger-ring and he was satisfied.

This can be distinctly proved in the case of the gold finger-ring, which in the fifth century was worn only by the nobility (Plin. H. N., xxxiii.

This man, abundantly bedecked with ear-rings, finger-rings, and other ornaments, was a useless, bullying sort of fellow; dressed to the full extent of Oriental foppishness, and because he was the magistrate's servant, he thought himself entitled to order the other servants about in the most lordly way.

It is conjectured that he also gave them the distinction of a golden finger-ring and reserved seats at the public spectacles.

A beaver skin could be procured from the Indians for a brass finger-ring or a penny looking-glass.

When he came near the house he saw, lying down on the ground under the kinarum-tree, [100] the things that he had given his wife before he went away,pendants of pearl, bracelets and leglets of brass, gold necklaces (kamagi [101]), hair-ornaments of dyed goats'-hair and birds'-down, finger-rings, and leg-bands of twisted wire hung with bells.

I want you to go to the house of the Datu who is called 'sultan,' and take these nine kamagi and these nine finger-rings to pay for the sultan's daughter, because I want to marry her.

When she reached the sultan's house, she said to him, "I have come with these nine necklaces and these nine finger-rings that my son sends to you.

[80] A title of respect, which is best rendered by "lady" or "señora." Brass toe-rings, corresponding to the paninsing ("finger-rings").

Children of only seven or eight months old, wear finger-rings and bracelets of precious stones or pearls.

And, without ado or lingering, "Conveyed" the personals, jewels, and gold, Omitting the formal To Have and to Hold From the royal finger, before it was cold, He slipped the royal finger-ring.

On discovering that the people of the city were in a tumult over Pompey's death he did not at once venture to disembark, but put out to sea and waited till he saw the head and finger-ring of the murdered man, sent him by Ptolemy.

After that she kept on ransacking the perfumed jewel-box for all the gems that were her great pride,earrings and finger-rings of great price, mixed with other exotic jewels of bizarre form and slight value, picked up on her voyages.

Such glittering of gold-embroidered mantles, such bewildering confusion of colors, such flashing of jewelry from cap and dagger-hilt and finger-ring, and even from bridle and stirrup, testified that the male sex at this period in Italy were no whit behind the daughters of Eve in that passion for personal adornment which our age is wont to consider exclusively feminine.

They are small glass amulets, commonly about half as wide as our finger-rings, but much thicker, of a green colour usually, though sometimes blue, and waved with red and white.

He wore a light check suit, a light-blue tie knotted through a "Mizpah" ring, a white straw hat with a blue ribbon, and two finger-rings set with sham diamondsaltogether the sort of outfit that its owner would probably have described as "rather nobby.

Old brooches, miniatures painted on ivory, silhouettes, hair rings, necklaces, ear-rings, chains, and finger-rings.

21 examples of  finger-ring  in sentences