单词 | cairngorm |
例句 | Rising, she pinned a cairngorm brooch at her neck, and went down to dinner. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The cairngorm eyes of the elder damsel were opened to their full width with the far-seeing blindness of a somnambulist. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Doreen darted forth such a golden flash from her cairngorm eyes as flooded the heart of the tempest-tossed young man with a gleam of sunshine. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Ornaments were worn wherever there was a place for them, but the only jewels were cairngorms, and they were always set in silver. In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z Serpentine abounds in several places, especially at Portsoy, where it is known as 'Portsoy marble', and Scotch topazes or cairngorm stones are found on the mountains in the south. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The dirk as worn in full Highland costume is an elaborately ornamented weapon, with cairngorms or other stones set in the head of the handle, which has no guard. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" He glittered from head to foot, with dirk, pistol, and skean-dhu, and at least a hundred-weight of cairngorms cast a prismatic glory around his person. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 The beryl green and the cairngorm brown Of the day through the deep leaves sifted down. The Garden of Dreams He is a little, very alert, well-bred, intelligent Skye, as black as a hat, with a wet bramble for a nose and two cairngorms for eyes. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 She wore her best black dress and her lace collar with the big cairngorm brooch; for the minister and his wife were expected to tea. Treasure Valley It is no valid answer to him, when he asks the difference between the moss and the cairngorm, the frost-work and the fern, to be assured that both are beautiful. Natural Law in the Spiritual World At this moment the jeweler returned with some half dozen brooches displayed on a plate, and shining with all the brilliancy of cairngorm stones, polished silver and variously-colored pebbles. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 There’s the sweetest oxydised buckle with a cairngorm in the centre that would be the making of my grey dress. A College Girl She opened her ungloved right hand to reveal a bonnet brooch of beautiful and very ancient workmanship showing the crest of the MacDonalds of Dhrum set with a fine cairngorm and some exquisite old paste. The Heather-Moon She had a ribbon of the MacGregor tartan on her cap, and an uncompromising cairngorm fastened her fichu of valuable point lace. The Golden Silence Lady Katherine, even, has sent me a cairngorm brooch and a cordial letter. Red Hair We are glad to see that the obsolete Highland Practice of muffling the ears in a cairngorm has been definitely discarded. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 My poems are mere cairngorms, wrought up, perhaps, with a cunning hand, and may pass well in the market as long as cairngorms are the fashion; but they are mere Scotch pebbles, after all. Washington Irving The good wife had been stirring for some hours, and in emptying the pockets of her good man's coat she had found three huge cairngorms of exquisite tint and lustre. Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales Aunt Janet came into the room, her thin face set and grim, her rusty dress of old black satin all cracking, and her great cairngorm brooch marking her from the rest in capes and homespun. Captivity He recognized in Byron, Moore, Crabbe, and others, genius and talent; and, with his generous spirit, exaggerated their merits by depreciating his own, which he compared to cairngorms beside the real jewels of his competitors. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The papers, which range in subject from ptarmigan to cairngorms, are written with an engaging simplicity and directness, and show a sympathetic knowledge of wild nature such as is the reward only of long familiarity. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914 The larger ones—and some were very large—were as a rule discoloured, looking more like big cairngorms. Prester John He is a little, very alert, well-bred, intelligent Skye, as black as a hat, with a wet bramble for a nose and two cairngorms for eyes. Memories and Portraits For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimblet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the cairngorm. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story His green plaid was looped up at his shoulder by a fine brooch, a cairngorm set in a silver rim. The Yeoman Adventurer "Neither gems nor gold, sir; -- honest Scotch cairngorms and plain silver," said Malcolm. The Marquis of Lossie Even the bald space at one side of the Glengarry cap glistened, as did the cairngorm brooch on the shoulder and the tops of the silver buttons. Dracula's Guest This hexagonal tower has Gothic tracery, with pinnacles, pillars, and canopies, enriched with cairngorms. Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885. And something happened very quickly, for the man only staggered under the smashing blow and the other man's arm flew up and his pistol blazed in the gathering dusk, shattering the cairngorm on McKay's shoulder. In Secret Rock-crystals, which you know probably under the name of Irish diamonds, are crystallized quartz; and so, with slightly different colourings, are agates, opals, jasper, onyx, cairngorms, and many other precious stones. The Fairy-Land of Science He knew a vast deal about cairngorms and agates and such-like pretty things, and showed Charles quartz and felspar and red cornelian, and I don't know what else, in the crags on the hillside. An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay Two yellow eyes, glowing in the darkness like cairngorms, and a small dim figure bunched up in a chair, told him his surmise was wrong. Bob, Son of Battle He glittered from head to foot with dirk, pistol, and skean-dhu; and at least a hundredweight of cairngorms cast a prismatic glory around his person. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) "Where the McKay is, the Key of the World lies hidden in his sporran," he laughed back at her over his shoulder where the clan plaid fluttered above the cairngorm. In Secret |
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