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Example sentences for "gold watch"

  • He then left the place and, to suggest robbery as a motive for the crime, he took with him the professor's gold watch, which he threw away.

  • A brief announcement that a man of the vagrant class had been arrested in London whilst endeavouring to sell a gold watch believed to be that of Professor McMurray, was the first spark.

  • The professor's gold watch can't be found; but the butler is not certain that he had it on him.

  • I knew that my friend had no gold watch; neither, of course, did I possess one.

  • If I had but a gold watch I could save her!

  • But I do know one thing; I would like to get back my gold watch.

  • He made a grab at Harry’s gold watch chain.

  • The bad boys confessed robbing the hotel and the larger part of the money taken was recovered, as was also Harry’s gold watch, which Si Peters had been bold enough to wear.

  • The Deacon accordingly selected for his own use a gold seal, a gold watch-key set with garnet stones, and two gold rings.

  • He pawned a small lady's gold watch, which he said his deceased wife had left him, and with the money bought a ticket for Cincinnati.

  • I asked, showing him the lady's gold watch.

  • In conversation with him I learned that he owned two watches and wanted to exchange one of them (a small lady's gold watch) for something else.

  • It is a very handsome one, and quite expensive I should judge, although I never bought a gold watch.

  • I impressed upon him that a gold watch is a most unsuitable adornment to a penniless person, who is moreover in debt, and I indicated to him a means by which it could be converted into currency of the realm.

  • On the wall, hanging from a nail, was a gold watch.

  • You have stolen a gold watch, besides making this attempt at robbery.

  • Look quick, Luke, and see if my gold watch is hanging on a nail near the cupboard.

  • In the March following I had a letter from the good Dean Bassi, in which he told me how Balbi had run away, taking with him one of his servant girls, a sum of money, a gold watch, and a dozen silver spoons and forks.

  • It happened to me one day in Leopoldstadt that in the midst of some tumult a girl slipped in my hand a gold watch to secure it from the clutches of a police-spy who was pressing upon her to take her up.

  • He presented me with two louis and a gold watch, and I thought I could accept those presents from a young nobleman who shewed so much interest in me.

  • He had always wanted a gold watch, and had dropped more than one hint to that effect within the hearing of Aunt Eliza, but the old lady had always said: "When you are eighteen, it will be time enough to think of a gold watch.

  • Harold paid down the dollar, and went out of the pawn broker's with a gold watch, and chain of the same color, with only two dollars left of his ill-gotten money.

  • It was a gold watch, after all, and no one would know that the gold was low grade.

  • Today was given by a brother a gold watch with a small gold chain and key.

  • One day I went to Croydon and touched for a red toy (gold watch) and red tackle (gold chain) with a large locket.

  • You traded your grandfather's gold watch for that," Mr. Meadows asked finally, with a contemptuous wave of his hand toward the horse.

  • The way I got started in business was that I traded my gold watch for my horse Ticktock.

  • He's worth a lot more than a gold watch, isn't he?

  • You know I might as well attempt to buy the moon as a gold watch; so think of something else.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are given; correspondence with; food processing; gold and; gold and precious stones; gold and silver coin; gold bullion; gold cord; gold ground; gold lace; gold leaf; gold mining; gold reserve; gold round; gold thread; gold watch and chain; gold would; golden color; golden crown; golden wedding; land held; longer extant; looks like; tablespoons melted; well worthy; when thus