Money stands for all kinds of things--its purchasing quality isn't limited to diamonds and motor-cars.
What I want is a woman who'll hold her head higher the more diamonds I put on it.
The beauty also of your flasks will have all disappeared; the gold will have become dim, the diamonds will have lost their sparkle, and you yourself will have no power to go onwards and climb higher.
They were made of pure gold, bright and shining, and ornamented with diamonds that flashed and sparkled in the light like fire.
It was such a bright morning when the little beggar left us; a cold, crisp day in the beginning of October, the slight frost sprinkling the ground with a white powder that sparkled and glistened like diamonds in the autumn sun.
But here was a fairy forest with black moving shadows, and a glitter of diamonds and a flight of marble steps and the silver roofs of fairy buildings and the shrill yells of some animals.
The mirrors on the landing reflected ladies in white, pale-blue, and pink dresses, with diamonds and pearls on their bare necks and arms.
It was not the diamonds nor the feasts that they were afraid of.
But she had scarcely commenced speaking to her, when the lord steward thrice struck the floor with his gold-headed stick, the diamonds on which sparkled brightly.
Ah, when she began to recover, piece by piece, the process became lively; she might have been picking small shining diamonds out of the sweepings of her ordered house.
Now, slip those pearls into your pocket, and I will take as many of the diamonds and what not as I can stow away, after which I think we had better see about getting back to the ship.
Lady Judith, blazing in diamonds at a court ball, beautiful, daring, insolent, had half the town for her slaves and courtiers.
I have already given you the cluster of diamonds which I had for my share, and intended for you?
The theft of the diamonds does not astonish me; seals may be tampered with unperceived; but my most cruel torment is that she insists I gave the gift to her personally yesterday.
Attenborough told me that Francis had brought his sister there at different times and placed the plate and diamonds in pawn.
At the time of her death she possessed, interest and principal combined, L216, and debts to a considerable amount, while the diamonds and plate seemed to have disappeared without leaving a trace behind them.
One night, after this little Moor was grown up, Lady Stapleton, returning very late from a ball, went to bed, leaving all her diamonds lying upon the table.
The King said to him, "You have purchaseddiamonds of Boehmer?
I communicated this answer to the Queen, who was delighted with it, but could not comprehend how the Sultan came to purchase his diamonds in Paris.
Her head-dress was merely a hat; the plainest were preferred; and her diamonds never quitted their caskets but for the dresses of ceremony, confined to the days I have mentioned.
I do not think I ever once saw diamonds about her, even at the climax of her fortune, when she had the rank of Duchess at Court.
It was necessary, likewise, to send off all the diamonds belonging to the Queen.
This person had, at great expense, collected six pear-formed diamonds of a prodigious size; they were perfectly matched and of the finest water.
She was yet more successful with the royal family when they beheld her shorn of the splendour of the diamonds with which she had been adorned during the first days of her marriage.
In this paper he told the Queen that he was happy to see her "in possession of the finest diamonds known in Europe," and entreated her not to forget him.
Still, this jeweller busied himself for some years in forming a collection of the finest diamonds circulating in the trade, in order to compose a necklace of several rows, which he hoped to induce her Majesty to purchase; he brought it to M.
It is impossible not to believe this, since the despatch of the diamonds was the subject of a second accusation which the Queen heard of after the return from Varennes.
The Queen, after having her diamonds reset in new patterns, told Boehmer that she found her jewel case rich enough, and was not desirous of making any addition to it.
They bore great golden pincers, and prods of silver, and clamps and chains and various wicked-looking instruments, all made of precious metals and set with diamonds and rubies.
On the ground were thickly strewn precious gems of every hue and size, while here and there among the trees were paths pebbled with cut diamonds of the clearest water.
They were heavy things, these diamonds and rubies and emeralds and amethysts and the like, so before long Ruggedo was staggering with the weight he bore, while the pockets were not yet filled.
A bouquet of Hortensias in diamonds glittered on her bosom, and her necklace and bracelets consisted of little diamond Hortensias.
On the following day she and her son were made prisoners, and all the crown diamonds in her possession seized by the authorities; but it seems as though capture was precisely what she wished.
Diamonds and dress do not constitute happiness, and we three would love each other just as much if we had no jewelry, and were poor.
And if my words could have been changed into diamonds by the magic wand of a fairy, not one of those starving people would have accepted the change of diamondsfor bread.
They go through a negro cabin in search of diamonds and gold watches with just as much freedom and vivacity as they 'loot' the dwelling of a wealthy planter.
Hours of Exhibition by Auction from Six to Ten each Evening; when the Jewels and Diamonds will, instantaneously, either be sold or sacrificed, according to the Taste of the Company.
As the first shaft of light over the bluff revealed the diamonds in the orchard grass I went out, wondering.
For the wind had shifted into the northwest, and, for the first time since we had left Kaskaskia we saw the stars gleaming like scattered diamonds in the sky.
The Tapajos River stretches its branches to the town of Diamantino, situated at the foot of the mountains, where diamondsare found.
The quantity of diamonds found in a year varies from two hundred and fifty to five hundred oitavas; the oitava being about seventeen carats.
It is stated that diamonds are sometimes found in the stomachs of the fowls.
Herndon saw some of the diamonds and gold-sand in the possession of a resident of Santarem, who had traded much on the river.
Morgan le Fay wore a robe that looked like a storm-cloud, and herdiamonds were like stars.
King Arthur took the crown and had the diamonds unset.
Each year at the friendly tournament he gave one of these diamonds as a prize.
In fact the ones we are after have been doing more in diamonds than anything else, though they have, of late, brought much valuable hand-made lace.
They're going to try and smuggle some diamonds over on this trip," said the custom agent.
Think what a temptation it must be to a poor rogue to pop his hand through and seize all those diamonds and pearls.
Pray why is the Nine of Diamonds called the Curse of Scotland?
The Diamonds on cards are, in Northumberland, more especially amongst the colliers, frequently termed Picks, in consequence of the acute angular points being something like the Picks used in hewing coals.
The Carreaux of cards, however, have no connexion with diamonds and precious stones, any more than they have with the quarrells or square-headed arrows of a crossbow.
The King of Hearts presides over a sirloin of beef; of Diamonds over a turkey; of Clubs over a pickled herring; and of Spades over a venison pasty.
The Curse of Scotland must be something which that nation hate and detest; but the Scots hold in the utmost detestation the Pope; at the game of Pope Joan, the Nine of Diamonds is Pope; therefore the Nine of Diamonds is the Curse of Scotland.
In those cards the suit of Hearts is occupied by flesh; Diamonds by fowl; Clubs by fish; and Spades by baked meats.
And since upon the diamond no less Than diamonds will serve us to impress, I'll only wish that for his elegy This our Josias had a Jeremy.
They for themselves, for others you unfold A cargo swoln with diamonds and gold.
So diamonds sparkle, and thy mistress' eyes; When 'tis not fire but light in either flies.
The deep that swallows diamonds and gold; Fame ev'n thy sacred relics does pursue, Richer than all the treasures of Peru: While the kind sea thy breathless body brings Safe to the bed of honour and of kings.
Why should rude feet contemn the snow's chaste white, Which from the sun receives a sparkling light, Brighter than diamonds far, and by its birth Decks the green garment of the richer earth?
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