Jewellery

Examples

• Then, he hastily proceeded to dispose the watches and jewellery beneath his clothing. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Are you fond of looking at jewellery? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Say it was money, or plate, or jewellery, it would be as much ours as anybody else's. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Shall it be jewellery or porcelain, haberdashery or silver? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Lydgate had really felt this point of the jewellery very bitter to himself; but he had overcome the feeling by severe argument. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Is a new dress, a new custom, a new singer, a new dancer, a new form of jewellery, a new dwarf or giant, a new chapel, a new anything, to be set up? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Dover says he will take a good deal of the plate back again, and any of the jewellery we like. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The man was a wreck; but his clothes and his jewellery--in cruel mockery of the change in him--were as gay and as gaudy as ever. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• No article of value was offered to him: he distinctly gave it to be understood, that he would accept neither plate nor jewellery. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I have not marked any of the jewellery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Annabel