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Updated: May 26, 2025
'N-o-a, no, ar don't want to be sociable, growled he, diving into his trouser-pockets, and wriggling about on his chair. 'Well, then, what will you do? asked Miss Howard. 'Hunt, replied the youth. 'Hunt! exclaimed Bob Spangles; 'why, the ground's as hard as bricks. 'N-o-a, it's not, replied the youth. 'What a whelp! exclaimed Miss Howard, rising from the table in disgust.
He wears a coat of fine cloth of cinnamon color, a black necktie with silver spangles, a red satin waistcoat, trousers over which hangs his shirt, shoes and stockings, a hat, and brass ornaments, something like the handle of a basket, suspended from his ears." He was an excellent interpreter, and held in high account by his Indian kinsmen. Croghan's Transactions with the Indians, in N.Y. Col.
The landscape, cold and bare, is reflected in its pure depths; the winds ruffle its glassy surface, and the sun fills it with throbbing spangles, while its waves begin to lap and murmur around its leafless shores, sun-spangles during the day and reflected stars at night its only flowers, the winds and the snow its only visitors.
While I thus introduce to you the Frost Giants, let me also present their tiny brethren and sisters, the Frost Fairies, who always accompany them on their expeditions; and, however terrible is the deed that has to be done, these little people adorn it with the most lovely handiwork, tiny flowers and crystals and veils of delicate lace-work, fringes and spangles and star-work and carving; so that nothing is so hard and ugly and bare that they cannot beautify it.
Gold thread was used extensively in English work, and spangles were added at quite an early period, as well as actual jewels set in floral designs. The finest work was accomplished in the Gothic period, before the Renaissance came with its aimless scrolls to detract from the dignity of churchly ornament.
His York Minster's West-Front opens; and like the gates of Milton's heaven, it turns on golden binges. What have we here? The inner palace of the Great Mogul? Group and gilded columns, in confidential clusters; fixed fountains; canopies and lounges; and lords and dames in silk and spangles.
I found myself in a large square Apartment, with curious latticed Windows, through which the Evening Sunlight came, in the prettiest of patterns, and fell, like so many spangles disposed by an artful Embroiderer, upon the rich Carpet.
Leaving the overseer to search for those that had strayed, I took a sponge, and went to try to collect some of the dew which was hanging in spangles upon the grass and shrubs; brushing these with the sponge, I squeezed it, when saturated, into a quart pot, which, in an hour's time, I filled with water.
The grand apartments hung with black, the great chairs of state, raised on several steps, and surmounted by a canopy adorned with Plumes; the caparisoned horses, the immense retinue in Court mourning, the enormous shoulder-knots, embroidered with gold and silver spangles, which decorated the coats of the pages and footmen, all this magnificence had such an effect on my senses that I could scarcely support myself when introduced to the Princesses.
Funker! the horse frightened him so, that he went home crying, replied Bob Spangles. 'Hope he didn't lose him? asked Sir Harry. 'Oh no, replied Bob; 'he gave a lad a shilling to lead him, and they trudged away very quietly together. 'The Sorry Union, replied Captain Quod. 'He was out with them once, and fell off on his head and knocked his hat-crown out.
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