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Example sentences for "glass beads"

  • We had formed a kind of arbour by hacking out with a sabre a delightful shady nook in the midst of a dense mass of creepers, and there we feasted upon a couple of roast fowls that we had procured from the natives for glass beads.

  • He purchases guns and large quantities of ammunition for his men, together with a few hundred pounds of glass beads.

  • These people were the most extraordinary that I had seen--wearing beautiful helmets of glass beads, and being remarkably handsome.

  • The perforation at the top is punched, which together with the fact that glass beads and a piece of iron were also found in this grave, suggests that the copper is factory-rolled.

  • The presence of glass beads in this grave suggests that the bracelets may be of drawn copper.

  • Some of the graves are known to be of modern Indians, but many of them antedate the advent of the white race in this region or at least contain no objects of European manufacture, such as glass beads or iron knives.

  • The captain gave the prince a white cloth of the finest linen, a red cap, some strings of glass beads, and a gilded glass drinking cup.

  • Then he sent to the king of Zubu through me and one other a yellow and violet silk robe, made in Turkish style, a fine red cap, some strings of glass beads, all in a silver dish, and two gilt drinking cups in our hands.

  • White men did not kill each other for a string of glass beads.

  • You think you're forgetting when you fly across half the world for a string of glass beads.

  • Ling Foo reached inside his jacket and produced a string of cut-glass beads.

  • To some he gave red caps, and to others strings of glass beads, which they hung about their necks, and various other things of small value, which they valued as if they had been jewels of high price.

  • The admiral gave to all strings of glass beads, pins, or other toys, being much pleased to see the simple innocence of the natives.

  • In vain did I offer my glass beads, in vain my blessing and Nefes.

  • On their neck, their arms, and the calves of their legs, they wear strings of glass beads.

  • I ordered my men to do the same, and then I advanced to meet them, making Hanno accompany me, and display some pieces of red cloth and strings of glass beads.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    coming round; easy bowline; first attempt; four hundred and fifty; further information; general strike; glass bottle; glass bowl; glass case; glass dish; glass jars; glass painting; glass plate; glass plates; glass retort; glass shade; glass tube; glass tubes; glass vessels; glass window; glass windows; high priest; high repute; many animals; pretty well; whatever comes