Do we say jewelry or jewellery

jewelry 392 occurrences

I have been much interested in this woman as a genius, though I am pained by the accounts of her career in point of morals, and I am wearied with the glitter of her jewelry.

Night puts on a jewelled robe which few admire, compared with the admiration for marketable jewelry.

His verses hang together like gems of the purest water exquisitely cut and clasped by "jacinth work of subtlest jewelry."

And when this man of religion, wearing the simple woollen garment of a Sufi, was brought into the presence of the great conqueror, he was nothing abashed at the blaze of silks and jewelry which decorated the pavilion where Tamerlane sat in state.

Jack remembered that piece of jewelry as far back as his memory stretched.

"I shall keep mine," replied the little man, who never wore any ornament of jewelry.

However, I've learned so much about pearls that I'm almost tempted to go into the jewelry business.

" Beulah's exclamations proved how much she was gratified with her presents; principally trinkets and jewelry, suited to her years and station.

" "That is no doubt true, yet he stole the jewelry from the child's person and kept him only for the sake of obtaining ransom.

Being rather impartial judgesfor Diana was not a popular favorite with her setthey decided it was absurd to suppose a niece of wealthy old John Merrick would descend to stealing any one's jewelry.

All the clucks that hadn't chipped in would feel so bad because they weren't included in my outburst of gratitude that nine times out of ten they would sneak out and try to break into a jewelry store.

And that's the only thing that got her the jobher jewelry.

All the jewelry she ever had was a diamond stickpin she bit out of a gentleman's scarf when they were going home in a cab, and all she had left of that was the pawn ticket.

I see, Laura, that you are still a member of the Arm and Hammer band, and I wish to mention in passing that the only ten or twelve thousand dollars' worth of jewelry you ever had you returned to the property man every night after the ballroom scene.'

Not dress, not jewelry, not pleasing manners, not even innocence, is the charm and glory of society; but the wisdom learned by experience, the knowledge acquired by study, the quickness based on native genius.

To the English they appear as peculiarly practical,bent on making money, sensual in their pleasures, and only distinguished from the people around them by an extravagant love of jewelry and a proud and cynical rationalism.

There are the household implements, the furniture of their homes, the jewelry their queens wore,queens who were also sisters of the kings, as Sarah was the sister of Abraham.

"You don't want plated jewelry or imitation gems.

"The gold is good and melted down would serve for other jewelry.

" Each one selected some piece of jewelry, one a ring, another a watch, another a locket.

Simoun bought or exchanged old jewelry, brought there by economical mothers, to whom it was no longer of use.

I tried to tell him that there was no danger of our monoplane being injured now that those two men who robbed the jewelry store were locked up at police headquarters, waiting for some formality to start them on the road to a ten-year sentence; but he only shook his head and said Shea had nothing else to do and might as well be earning his salt.

Two rogues had robbed the extensive jewelry establishment of Mr. Leffingwell and carried off the loot in a couple of suit cases taken from the store.

I'm surfeited now with pictures and jewelry, and bon-bon boxes, and little china dogs and catsand all these things that get so thick you can't move without upsetting some of them.

Her sleeves were green, looped up full on the shoulders with jewelry, and showing the white shift beneath, richly trimmed with lace.

jewellery 249 occurrences

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.

It is fortified; celebrated for its garnet jewellery; and situated in a valley covered with groves of olive and pomegranate, and fruitful vineyards.

When she stood up again her hands were filled with jewellery, her two hands held a treasure of incalculable price in precious stones.

The more ordinary features of main streetsthe marts of jewellery, drapery, and tobaccohad an air of grandiose respectability; while the narrow alleys that curved enigmatically away between the lofty buildings of these fine thoroughfares beckoned darkly to the fancy.

The vendor of Delhi jewellery will be there and the Sind-work-box-walla, with his small, compressed white turban and spotless robes, and the Cashmere shawl merchant and many more, pressing on the gentleman's notice for the last time their most tempting wares and preparing for the long bout of fence which will decide at what point between "asking price" and "selling price" each article shall change ownership.

On this day there is no change in the fashion of her costume (that never changes), but she puts on her brightest dress, blue, or red, or lemon yellow, with all her private jewellery, and decks her hair with a small chaplet of bright flowers.

The drug store, the jewellery store (for there was a jewellery store, and a prosperous one), the grocery storecombining a large trade in candythe post office, and the dry-goods storewhere two extremes were made to meet with a display of hats and shoes in the same windowwere every one open and crowded.

The drug store, the jewellery store (for there was a jewellery store, and a prosperous one), the grocery storecombining a large trade in candythe post office, and the dry-goods storewhere two extremes were made to meet with a display of hats and shoes in the same windowwere every one open and crowded.

My excuse, however, was not allowed, and I accompanied Lady Cameron, in a simple coloured muslin dress, to a party where all the other ladies were dressed in silk and satin and covered with lace and jewellery; yet no one was ashamed of me, but conversed freely with me, and showed me every possible attention.

This statue is formed of clay or wood, painted with the most glaring colours, and loaded with gold and silver tinsel, flowers, ribbons, and often with even real jewellery.

The jewellery consisted of precious stones and pearls of great purity and size; but they had not much effect, as they were not set in gold, but simply perforated and strung upon a gold thread, which was fastened above the head kerchief, and came down under the chin.

Their dress was costly, like that of the princess, but there was a difference in the jewellery.

This was no other than the famous Paul Bennett, an artist in jewellery, who at that time excelled all his compeers for beauty of design and exquisite refinement of minute elaboration.

Within this town are manufactured every metallic article, both for use and ornament, that can be necessary in a house; the variety of japan goods, both useful and ornamental, is prodigious; the brass founders produce an infinite variety of articles; and the platers also; the manufacturers of buttons, guns, swords, locks of every kind, jewellery and toys, employ the greatest part of the population.

I afterward discovered that two prizes for doubles and two for singles were to be played for, not pretty trifles suitable for children, but jewellery, belt buckles of gold and silver, gold sleeve links, and a loving cup.

Thus before the jewellery shop of Rapp Brothers he quite unnerved Merle by announcing that he could buy everything in that window if he wanted tonecklaces and rings and pins and gold watchesand he might do this.

There was some old jewellery too, and a little wooden bowl of sovereigns or gold coins of some kind or other.

The gentle Kashmiri is an inveterate and skilful thief, and the less jewellery she can make up her mind to "do with," the more at ease will her mind be.

At midday the girl went down to her brothers with her best cloth and all her jewellery on; and when they saw their victim coming they could not keep from tears.

The two brothers were inveterate gamblers and spent their time playing cards with each other; for a long time fortune was equal, but one day it turned against the elder brother and he lost and lost until his money and his jewellery, his horses and his elephants and every thing that he had, had been won by his younger brother.

Not content with this, the Tehsildar and the palace chowkidar that same night tried to break into the Raja's palace and steal his money and jewellery.

The climax was reached when she boldly advertised a reward of two thousand louis for a clue to the jewellery of which burglars had robbed herjewels of which she published a long and dazzling list, thus bringing to memory the days when the late King had squandered his ill-gotten gold on her.

BAD`EN, THE GRAND-DUCHY OF (1,725), a German duchy, extends along the left bank of the Rhine from Constance to Mannheim; consists of valley, mountain, and plain; includes the Black Forest; is rich in timber, minerals, and mineral springs; cotton fabrics, wood-carving, and jewellery employ a great proportion of the inhabitants; there are two university seats, Heidelberg and Freiburg.

The capital is Meshed (50), a sacred Moslem city, with carpet, jewellery, and silk manufactures.

In oriental towns of considerable size, there is generally a distinct bazar for each species of goods, such as "the cloth bazar," "the jewellery bazar," &c. [109] The merchant would have rather a puzzling voyage of it, if he went by sea from Yaman to Damascus.

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