"Rather a gem of a key, I think.

To-day she was once more to be seen in her hereditary position, the brightest gem in all that glorious galaxy of States which made America the envy of every other nation.

As a professional dealer in gems from a foreign land I would be less liable to suspicion than if I endeavored to peddle my jewels one at a time.

The throne's bright gems with radiant lustre glow, Slaves rank'd around with duteous homage bow.

In the Gem for 1831 was a poem by Barton, "To Milton's Portrait in a Friend's Parlour."] LETTER 391 CHARLES LAMB TO

We see him bathing in perfumes, sailing ships in wine, feeding horses on grapes and lions on parrots, peppering fish with pearls, wearing gems on the soles of his feet, strewing his floor with gold-dust, paving the public streets with precious marbles, driving teams of stags, scorning to eat fish by the seaside, deploring his lot that he has never yet been able to dine on a phoenix.

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" Accordingly next morning, for the steamer for that day had long since sailed, we set out for the kingdom of Sicily, that gem among Islands, as Goethe terms it.

I had picked out one of the least valuable engraved stones, and had taken it to a lapidary, who readily bought it at his own valuation, and paid me with great promptness; but after he had secured it he asked me so many questions about it, particularly how I had come into possession of it, that I was very sure that he had made a wonderful bargain, and was also convinced that it would not do for me to take any more of my gems to him.

It was at this time, I remember, that the Argus first spoke of our town as "a gem at beauty's throat," and, touching the rare enterprise of our citizens, declared that, "If you put a Slocum County man astride a streak of lightning, he'd call for a pair of spurs.

Who owns, the jeweler or I, Yon gems by window-bars confined? Possession lies in locks and keys; True ownership's a state of mind.

Put the crown of your love on my forehead, Its sweet links clasped with a kiss, And all the great monarchs of England Never wore such a gem as this.

How had she dug these gloomy gems out of Donne, Ford, Webster, and set them here among loose songs and loose epigrams from Wit's Remembrancer and the like?

Each day the brown men worked in the mines, piling gems into the vaults with a resoluteness that never faltered.

* GEMS FROM THE JUNIORS.

"I have some gems amongst the portraits," he said to Colonel Manning as he unlocked a door in the passage, and led them into a long dusky corridor; "I will pull up the blinds and then we shall see.

The diamond sun arose, and tossed A billion gems across the sea.

I wear a crown of the sunbeam's gold, With glacier-gems en my forehead old A monarch crowned by God!

The storm continued until three in the morning of the 17th, when it became clear, and we saw the stars sparkling like gems over our heads.

Never before has he been perfectly sure that the baronet carried the long-desired gem about on his body; but now at last he knows beyond all doubt.

Having put a small writing desk set with gems under his arm, and looking at each [patient] in turn, he gave them his recipes, and came to me.

We were environed by an atmosphere of perfect purity; the larger stars hung like gems above us, and the moon, about half full, shone with wondrous radiance in the dark firmament.

As the public will doubtless remember, they had been robbed of some valuable gems between London and Amsterdam in a singularly audacious manner.

' I did not know what made him speak like this, and was not willing, even in fancy, to agree to what he counselled; for with that gem before me, lustrous, and all the brighter for lying on a rough deal table, I could only think of the wealth it was to bring to us, and how I would most certainly go back one day to Moonfleet and marry Grace.

Soft stars through the pine-trees gleaming Gems in dark robes caught Everything about us seeming With hidden meaning fraught.