She wore no jewellery, but lots of girls were rather affecting that now, especially the athletic type to which this young beauty seemed to belong.

It's worth seventy quid if it's worth a farthing, and was given to me by a lady of title for getting back 'er jewellery for 'er. Put it on, and wotever you do, don't lose it" He sat and watched while Sam forced it on is finger.

The road now turns towards the right, through the Mîna Bazar, the old market-place, where merchants displayed jewellery, brocades, and similar stuffs for the nobles and others attending the court.

They were led by a Jew boy who sold penny jewellery at the corner of Oxford Street, and they generally made for the tables at the end of the room, for there, unless custom was slack indeed, they could defeat the vigilance of the serving-maid and play at nap at their ease.

She was as placid as she was on other, less important nights, far more placid than she would have been if she had known that she was guarding not only my jewellery, but a famous diamond necklace, worth at least five hundred thousand francs.

" They walked back toward the shop of the snuff-boxes gloomily discussing the situation, which was complicated by the fact that, grown cautious since the attempted burglary at the Valmont, Angela had left her most valuable jewellery in a bank at New York.

She adored jewellery, and had been almost a slave to her love for it, until she began to value something else moresomething which, unfortunately, her money could not buy, though she hoped and prayed her face might win it.

It is a manufacturing city, producing jewellery, ornamental furniture, and all sorts of artistic "articles de Paris."

I saw little really fine jewellery, probably because I was obviously unlikely to be a big buyer, but many good spinels, dark topaz, and rough emeralds.

And that the old lady had sent us by him some jewellery, gold breast-pins, earrings, and wristlets.

The degraded and unpolished fellow decoyed two little girls into empty house to steal their jewellery, and cut off fingers and noses and ears to get rings and nose-jewels and ear-drops, and left to die.

"Madame la Comtesse," I suggested tentatively, after a while, "your jewellery . . .

In the morning let your rings be of the more simple and massive kind; wear no bracelets; and limit your jewellery to a good brooch, gold chain, and watch.

After a while I'll be able to afford jewellery, and that'll be the time for me to put it on.

"Still," he resumed, "if you carry valuable jewellery about with you, it would be as well, I think, if you locked it up.

Four skeletons were found upright in the streets, having in their hands boxes containing jewellery and things of value, as if in the act of endeavouring to make their escape: these must soon have perished, but the skeleton of a woman found in one of the rooms of the houses close to a bath shews that her death must have been one of prolonged suffering.