Bracelets
[b'reɪslɪts]
Examples
- All wore strange protruding girdles of dried grass about their hips and many were loaded with brass and copper anklets, armlets and bracelets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The brooch, the ear-rings, the bracelets: no one in the school has such a set--not Madame herself. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had bracelets of gold upon his arms, and a broad collar of the same precious metal around his neck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- There are patents for belts without number, for electric gloves, rings, bracelets, necklaces, trusses, corsets, shoes, hats, combs, brushes, chairs, couches, and blankets. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The only valuable part of them consisted in some little fillets, bracelets, and other ornaments of gold, and in some bales of cotton. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She wore bracelets on her arms, which were bare. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Love was made on these occasions in the form of bracelets; and, on all occasions during the period of betrothal, took a manufacturing aspect. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She detached a small gold cigarette-case from one of her bracelets, held it out to him, and took a cigarette herself. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She went to great expenses in new gowns, and bracelets, and bonnets, and in prodigious feathers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Still very pale, she is dressed in slight mourning and wears two beautiful bracelets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Sharif