She wore earrings, a necklace, and her flowing dress was drawn together and held up by a species of clasp.

"Then he and his clerk talked the matter over, it appears, and together they had certainly recollected that a lady had brought some beautiful earrings for sale on a day which must have been the very morning after the murder.

Her shallow lightness of heart and her vanity could not be realized by ordinary intercourse with one so pretty and so bright; but George Eliot describes Hetty's taking out the earrings given her by Arthur, and we see what she is.

I'll go to town and buy you earrings.

" "Then who, in your opinion," he asked sarcastically, and cocking his funny birdlike head on one side, "tried to sell diamond earrings to Mr. Campbell, the jeweller?

A tall woman with dark hair and hammered silver earrings was browsing in a corner.

Tina nodded vigorously, her long earrings shaking.

He was now ready to swear that the lady that offered him the diamond earrings was the prisoner in the dock.

Through the second gate he caused her to pass, The earrings of her ears he took away.

The Inca chiefs were called Orejones, "big ears," by the Spaniards because the lobes of their ears had been enlarged artificially to receive the great gold earrings which they were fond of wearing.

When these also have been destroyed, Krishna meets Naraka and after a vicious contest finally kills him, recovering in consequence the earrings of Aditi and the canopy of Indra.

I have clipped my beard and hair, removed the earrings, and thought of modifying my attire.

He therefore goes to Vaikuntha, the paradise of Vishnu, and takes the opportunity to return the earrings of Aditi and place the canopy over the lord of the gods.

she protested, laughing and shaking her earrings, with tears in her eyes.

She even snatched her hitherto precious earrings from their pink cotton resting place and hurled them as far as she could into the night.

Why, O keeper, takest thou away the earrings of my ears?

[Weeping] I don't want your old earrings; I have a drawer full already.

Then he was thrust into prison, and as they hasted to strip him, some tore the clothes off his back, while others in wrenching out his earrings pulled off the tips of his ears with them.

Brahma, Vishnu and Siva agree to give her a son, Naraka, but on the following conditions: he will conquer all the kings of the earth, rout the gods in the sky, carry off the earrings of Aditi (the mother of the gods), wear them himself, take the canopy of Indra and place it over his own head and finally, collect together but not marry sixteen thousand one hundred virgin daughters of different kings.

Both Mr. Campbell and his clerk were quite ready to swear that they had had an interview concerning some diamond earrings with a lady, of whose identity with the accused they were perfectly convinced, and to the casual observer the question as to the time or even the day when that interview took place could make but little difference in the ultimate issue.

Another contained earrings, another bracelets, the last a tiara.

"I will be your wife," replied the Princess, "if you will find the earring I lost in the forest as I was journeying with Benito.