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Updated: June 29, 2025
Some had head-gears made of cloth, some had coronets, some had beautiful faces, and some were adorned with ornaments. Some had ornaments made of lotuses, and some were decked with flowers. They numbered in hundreds and thousands. "'Some were armed with shataghnis, some with thunder, and some had mushalas in their hands.
And what is the great distinction between rags and coronets, between senates and workshops, when in the breast of every man, and everywhere, there is the possibility of such heroism, such charity, and such splendid performance!
A sort of cupboard door half opened showed the shelves all full of skulls, adorned with little satin caps, coronets, and tinsel jewelry; which skulls, we were informed, were the original head-pieces of the same redoubtable females. At the other end of the room was a raised stage, where the most holy relics of all were being displayed, under the devout eye of a priest in a long, black robe.
"And kind hearts, they say, are more than coronets," she replied merrily, indulging in that derisive quotation which seems to be the final reward of the greatest poets. For a moment there was a silence, during which I confess to wondering what I should say next. However, she supplied my place.
Around her stood her maiden attendants in comely attire, with silver coronets on their heads, and silver bows in their hands, while at their backs hung quivers full of golden arrows.
I see at the window, that visitors are come; for there is a chariot and six horses, the company gone out of it, and three footmen on horseback; and I think the chariot has coronets. Who can it be, I wonder? But here I will stop, for I suppose I shall soon know. Good sirs! how unlucky this is! What shall I do!
To look far below those who, like a certain fair personator of Polly Peachum early in the last century, and another of Lydia Languish early in this, have won not only love but ducal coronets into the bargain, whole shoals of them have reached to the initial satisfaction of getting love almost whence they would.
Cottle, thus completing the circle of compliments, "and, as I always tell my girls, that is better than being beautiful." "Kind hearts," added Dr. Florret, summing up the case, "are more than coronets." Dr.
The walls of the hall were surrounded with suits of ancient and rusted armour, interchanged with huge and massive stone scutcheons, bearing double tressures, fleured and counter-fleured, wheat-sheaves, coronets, and so forth, things to which Roland Graeme gave not a moment's attention.
If you ask my opinion, Miss Mariner's a long sight too good for her precious son!" "Oh, but Horace! Sir Derek's a baronet!" "What of it? Kind 'earts are more than coronets and simple faith than Norman blood, aren't they?" "You're talking Socialism, Horace." "No, I'm not. I'm talking sense.
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