So these early workers were like men engaged in carving a perfect cameo from the reverse side.

The marquis kept the cameo at his town house for a few days, showing it to his friends, and then returned it to Mr. Claridge to be finally and carefully cleaned before passing into the national collection.

"And our little scented toilet futilities," Morrison's cameo of small-talk carried to the upper hall.

I knew enough of your reputation to know that you would never incur the scandal of a great theft at your place for the sake of getting the cameo for yourself, when you might have kept it in the beginning, with no trouble and mystery.

And Noel, following her finger, saw far up on the mountain a stag caribou, small and fine and clear as a cameo against the blue sky, where they had so often noticed him with wonder watching them as they came shouting home with the tide.

And what shall be said of that exquisite description of the cameo in ii.

Suddenly, clear-cut as a cameo before his fevered vision, there arose against the dripping darkness his wife's face.

Père François Xavier had replaced the cameo on the Virgin's breast before he went; it was a safer place than the vault of a bank would have been, had such a thing existed in the country.

" "Then I take it, Lord Stanway," Hewitt observed, "that you much prefer the cameo to the money?" "Certainly.

The shell cameos with the pink lower stone and white upper figure, are most expensive of all; other shells have brown or black lower layers, and these are not as choice.