A fairy pile; the sun, flung backward from innumerable facets, clothed it in jewelled splendor. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 25] Reference
Seest thou this dagger with its glinting jewelled hilt?. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
The Princess produced a daintily-jewelled enamelled case. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Where mail-clad chiefs have knelt -- where jewelled crowns. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Queen Maya, jewelled and flower-crowned, with the miraculous. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
It is particularly rich in specimens of armor and jewelled swords. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
He drew out a jewelled watch and studied the dial with knitted brows. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
On nights clear, jewelled treasures wink and gleam on darkened backdrop. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
They also wear jewelled and gold hairpins that are really very artistic. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
"Bravo!" cried a little woman opposite, clapping her warm, jewelled hands. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
He pulled a jewelled prayerbook out of his pocket, which Giselle had given him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was fastened at her throat by a jewelled star, and a golden zone clasped her waist. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Round the neck of this skeleton there was a gold chain, and on the fingers jewelled rings. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
On her head rested a jewelled crown, and her forehead blazed with the diamond moon crescent. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
He threw his hat and long jewelled rapier aside, and on removing his rocquelaure, discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
Mr. Hedge entered the room, and raising her jewelled hand to his lips, kissed it with rapture. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
And have the community given you for it these jewelled rings, these chains of violet amethysts?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Madame places her ear to the door, and thrusts her fat jewelled fingers under her embroidered apron. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The fireflies spread a jewelled web before their faces, great white moths flapped and droned about them. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
One of her dainty slippers rested on the fender, one of her jewelled hands lay tremulously on my shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
"Good morning, my dear Miss Merryheart," said Jacques, removing his glove and holding out his jewelled hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Now the queen called for a heavy cup of jewelled gold, and filled it with pure wine; therewith was the use of. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
One night, under cover of darkness, a slave slid from the jewelled home of the Romans, and sought my wretched den. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims -- just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Miss Custer, who was certainly very white, raised her dusky eyelids, smiled faintly and held out her jewelled hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
One of the priests stepped forward, and beheld the Greek covered with blood, and still clutching his jewelled dagger. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
About this time the wife of a neighbouring king died and as she lay upon her death bed she gave the king a jewelled ring. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from Brazil How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore] Reference
She was buried, as the custom then was, with her jewelled rings on her fingers, and most of her rich ornaments on her person. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Say what thou wilt, raise thy jewelled dagger to slay me, my tongue would be as silent as the breaking dawn -- ah, as silent! '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
European flowers, is but a spectral reflection of those colour-drenched blossoms fused into jewelled lustre by the solar fires. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The tooth is not shown except on rare occasions, but through a glass door we saw its jewelled casket and the table on which it rests. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
Was it likely that the populace would accept of this in lieu of the crowned and jewelled royalty which was wont to fill its imagination?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Tousled heads from above looked down curiously on heads elaborately frizzed, on scarlet caps, on plumes, on garlands, on jewelled necks. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The long stomachers were one gleaming mass of jewelled embroidery, the tiny caps or headdresses being likewise heavily studded with gems. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
He had not noticed until the moment when the lady set her thickly-jewelled hand upon it that a little silver bell was placed at her side. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
For a moment only was she motionless; then she raised high aloft her jewelled hands, brought them to her lips, kissed them to the Queen of. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
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