United States or Uruguay ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


"Hang your head, child," she cried; "for you are outvoted in a parliament of praise. Beat a retreat, maid Tiffany." The crimson Tiffany fled from the pleasaunce. "Where is your prisoner?" Brilliana asked. "I have envoyed him over park and garden," Halfman answered, "and brought him to port in the library." "Alas! I pity him," sighed Brilliana; "it holds few books of divinity.

There are the young women, with "silk or tiffany hoods or scarfs," "embroidered or needle-worked caps," "immoderate great sleeves," "cut works," a mystery, "slash apparel," another mystery, "immoderate great vayles, long wings," etc., mystery on mystery, but all recorded in the statutes, which forbid these splendors to persons of mean estate.

But it is at the theatre, as you may well believe, that poets live and die most like the blithesome grasshoppers. The poor players, marvellous compounds of tin, feathers, and tiffany, fret but a brief hour; but the playwright, less considered alive, is sooner defunct.

When the Gazette was removed to York, in 1800, with all the Government offices, the Messrs. Tiffany started the Constellation, which, Dr.

As a matter of fact, her irreverent thoughts were mostly to the effect that all but the historical pieces of the Stoke Revel corbeille would be the better of re-setting by Tiffany or Cartier. Mrs. de Tracy opened an old shagreen case and the firelight flickered on the diamonds of a small tiara.

If these are only suggestions, what must the real thing be! No, no, Alick! Go where you please; but don't ask me to read that paper. Only give us some shooting and fishing. Don't bother me with any more suggestions." "You sent for me, and I came." "I know you did. You are a young lamb, Alick. Now go and put it to the Colonel and Tiffany." Presently Colonel Shepard's party came into the parlor.

The obvious explanation that the man was a pickpocket, and that this was his plunder, was discounted by the fact that all six were of American make and of a type which is rare in England. Three of them bore the mark of the Rochester Watchmaking Company; one was by Mason, of Elmira; one was unmarked; and the small one, which was highly jewelled and ornamented, was from Tiffany, of New York.

Pray don't think I wish to meddle impertinently with your affairs, Captain Alick," said Mr. Tiffany; and he seemed to be somewhat embarrassed about saying what he wished to say. "By no means, sir," I replied, beginning to feel an interest in the conversation; but rather on account of the manner than the matter of what he said.

She looked straight ahead, keeping her eyes fastened upon a Tiffany vase which stood on a little shelf, a glow of pink and gold against a skilful background of crimson velvet. It was as if she were having her photograph taken and had been requested by the photographer to keep her eyes fixed upon that vase. "The detective system of New York is so lax," said Mrs. Adams.

She had a gold fillet studded with diamonds for her hair that hair which was now dressed according to the very latest mode a mode which was startling, yet becoming, and she clasped around her throat the Tiffany necklace, and as a crowning touch, put on long white gloves.