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How could he send her to the nuns for a place unless he bought her some shoes and a rosary? And then that pig Marco thieving old miser peered forward with his mock candour and silver-rimmed goggles and offered ten for two soldi ten! with the market price, Dio mio, at twelve! And fichi totati too!
By this time, Pounce had taken everything of value from Scrub and Fairfeather the looking-glass, the silver-rimmed horn, the husband's scarlet coat, the wife's gay cloak, and, above all, the golden leaves, which so gladdened the hearts of old Buttertongue and her sons, that they threw the leathern doublet over the sleeping cobbler for a joke, and went off to their hut in the middle of the forest.
It is very terrible. He killed himself in order not to be bound to marry you." The round, silver-rimmed spectacles turned slowly to her face. "In order not to marry me! You must be mad, Don Teodoro! Or you do not know the truth that is it! You do not know the truth. It was only last night that he asked me to marry him that is it had been my aunt who had asked me, and I gave him the answer."
On that warm March day, doña Pepa was sitting in one of them, her silver-rimmed spectacles on her nose, reading the "Life" of the day's saint. At her side was the maid. A true daughter of the campagna of Rome, Beppa had been trained to piety from her earliest years; and she was listening attentively so as not to miss a word. On the other bench were Leonora and Rafael.
"He give one of them bitter laughs of his. Says he: 'It's no difference if it does. Nobody'll care, and off he walks, sulky like. There's something about Young Si I can't understand," concluded Mr. Bentley. Ethel Lennox was interested. A melancholy, mysterious hero in a setting of silver-rimmed sand hills and wide blue sweeps of ocean was something that ought to lend piquancy to her vacation.
He looked at them and took a long time over polishing them, for he was thinking of all the things he had seen through the old silver-rimmed glasses, some of which he should never see again. "My friend," he said at last, "I wish to tell you a secret." Don Matteo turned slowly in his seat, uncrossed his knees, and looked at him. "You may trust me," he answered. "I know that," said Don Teodoro.
These, he solemnly explained, were angels. Before we went to bed, Jake and Otto were called up to the living-room for prayers. Grandfather put on silver-rimmed spectacles and read several Psalms. I was awed by his intonation of the word 'Selah. 'He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved. Selah. I had no idea what the word meant; perhaps he had not.
Splendid salt-cellars, towering as landmarks to the various degrees of guests, tankards, gilt and parcel gilt or shining with silver, perfectly swarmed along the board, and the meanest of the guests present drank from silver-rimmed cups of horn, while for the very greatest were reserved the tall, slender, opal Venice glasses, recently purchased by the Countess in London.
Leather Bottles and Drinking Vessels. Several interesting specialistic collections of leather bottles and drinking vessels have been got together, showing the varied forms of the almost imperishable vessels, so suitable as liquor carriers and drinking cups in olden time. In the Guildhall Museum are several different types of bottles, black jacks, and silver-rimmed cups.
Max asked Manöel, who rode beside him as interpreter, his dark-stained face almost covered by the white folds of his woollen hood, the fire of his young eyes dimmed and aged by a pair of cheap, silver-rimmed spectacles such as elderly Arabs wear.
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