I would proceed with my tasknote if she wore the diamond brooch I had given her.

Why, my thief left a match on the dressing-table when he took my poor little brooch!'

"Have you lost a brooch, Miss Morriston?" At the question the blood left her cheeks as it had done a little while before; then surged back till her face was suffused.

"When I told you the other day that I had found your brooch on the lawn I said, for an obvious reason, what was not true.

I expect our friend Lloyd was rather disgusted at his small luckprobably gave the brooch to some female connection in London, and she realized on it.

She bit her lip from sheer pain, for 'twas Cedric's mother's prized brooch, and through her heart fell a thunderbolt of fear; for now she knew he would not allow a baggage to wear a thing so valued by the mother whose memory he so loved.

They went out looking at the shops, George thinking that that was the cheapest way of spending an evening, and they were as happy as possible till Gerty saw a brooch she liked so much in a window that he couldn't get 'er away.

Several dapper clerks, whose right ears drooped from having been used as pen-racks, wearing stunning cravats, outré brooches and shirt-studs, learned in the lore of "two-forty" driving, were ranged opposite.

Mr. Gifford has picked up in the garden a brooch I lost some days ago.

So she walked up to Cadurcis and gave him a mother's embrace for his magnificent present to his sister, placed the brooch itself near Venetia's heart, and then led her daughter to Mrs. Cadurcis, that the gratified mother might admire the testimony of her son's taste and affection.

To her generosity I owed the first piece of jewelery I ever possesseda pretty little brooch, which, with characteristic carelessness, I promptly lost!

The bird could pass through the opening as it was, and would have to tear the pin-cushion to pull the brooch off, probably holding the cushion down with its claw the while.

Give my kindest love to Julia, and ask her from me to accept the little present which I send her.' Julia declared that she would much rather not have accepted the brooch, and that she would never wear it.

"I retain," she says, "only a brooch or two for daily wear, which are memorials of my dear parents; also a locket with the only portrait I have of my niece in heaven, my Evelyn; and her 'two rings' mentioned in Under the Surface.

She was gone no more than three minutes, or five at most, but on her return the brooch, which had been left on the table, had gone.

Her okendokenda of bright colors was slightly open at the neck, and revealed brooches of brass and silver that covered her bosom; a heavy necklace of crimson beads hung around her throat; bracelets of brass clasped her wrists, and her long plaited hair was ornamented at the end of the braids with trinkets of silver.

She wore plain colors, and exhibited no ornaments save a large brooch with braided hair in it.

My brooch and my necklace, with twelve strings of pearls, I will also sell; and, if it is necessary, even the gold pins from my velvet cap must go.

She has sent me the prettiest brooch and such a nice letter.

For instance, I was shown some brilliant looking brooches of good design and finish, and sparkling with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, of rich lustreor, I should say, imitations of these precious stones.

A human thief entering the window would have disturbed this arrangement, and would scarcely risk discovery by attempting to replace it, especially a thief in so great a hurry as to snatch the brooch up without unfastening the pin.

Still, however, the Highlander kept his dying grasp on the king's mantle; so that, to be freed of the dead body, Bruce was obliged to undo the brooch, or clasp, by which it was fastened, and leave that, and the mantle itself, behind him.

Gifford bent his head over the case as he unfastened the brooch and took it out.

She removed a gold brooch from the top of her blouse, and a bit of her bosom appeared.

As Peter strolled down the street with Cissie, admiring her brooch, and suffused with a sense of her nearness, he happened to glance up, and saw Tump Pack walk down the stage-plank, come out, and wait for them at the gate.