United States or Kazakhstan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Blair put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a small beautifully carved jade box; he took off the lid delicately, and shook a scarab into the palm of his hand. "I'll tell you what that is worth," he said, holding the dull-blue oval between his thumb and finger; then he mentioned a sum that made Nannie exclaim.
Generally, while their music is going on, I am writing in the verandah, with the superb stretched out in front of me. I write, seated on a mat on the floor and leaning upon a little Japanese desk, ornamented with swallows in relief; my ink is Chinese, my ink-stand, just like that of my landlord, is in jade, with dear little frogs and toads carved on the rim.
Everything was in perfect trim for the carrying out of her design, because of the companionship which the Sire de Lavalliere would be obliged to have with her during his stay in the hotel, and as there is nothing in the world can turn a woman from her whim, at every turn the artful jade was ready to catch him in a trap.
It has since, however, been found in New Zealand and in India; while the discoverers of South America obtained specimens of it in its natural state from the natives of Peru, who used it for making axes and arrow-heads, and gave it the name of piedra de yjada, from which comes our common word jade, on account of its use as a supposed cure for the iliac passion.
I had my pleasure here of her, and she, like an impudent jade, depends upon my kindness to her husband, but I will have no more to do with her, let her brew as she has baked, seeing she would not take my counsel about Hawly. After drinking we parted, and I to Blagrave's, and there discoursed with Mrs. In comes he, and so to sing a song and his niece with us, but she sings very meanly.
The goods chiefly belonged to the retiring mandarin of Li-chiang, and included some five thousand dollars worth of jade and gold dust, all of which was taken. Yün-nan, like most of the outlying provinces of China, is infested with brigands who make traveling very unsafe.
The head-wife was a greasy old jade, who was in the habit of attending church without her gown, and when her husband sent her home to make her toilet, she would pout out her thick lips in unutterable disgust at his new-fangled notions, while some of the other wives were the best scholars in the school.
A short silence ensued, during which the gypsies ate their food with the zest of half-starved wolves. "You'd better go down and see old Moggy," suggested the woman, when the man had finished his repast and resumed his pipe. "If the brat escapes you to-morrow, it may be as well to let the old jade know that you'll murder both him and her, if he dares to blab." The man shook his head.
She found it difficult to speak, to explain her errand. At length she said: "You are a doctor? You can cure the sick?" Safti salaamed. "With jewels? Is that possible?" "Jewels are the only medicine," Safti replied, speaking with sudden volubility. "With the ruby I cure madness, with the white jade the disease of the hijada, and with the bloodstone haemorrhage.
I did not hear Jimmy when he came in, and when he spoke I jumped, startled. "Black Bart!" said Jimmy. "Say, now " "Well, good mate," said I, and laid a hand on his curly fair head, "what shall I say?" "Say nothin'," he remarked, dropping his voice. "Listen!" "Yes?" "We have held a council." "Who has?" "Why, me and Jean Lafitte and the heartless jade.
Word Of The Day