Ethiop's

We know, for example, that she taught the candles to burn bright, and, furthermore, that she seemed to hang upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear -- most probably a pearl.

Tutors' Lane 1937

But they are so rare that when they are found they shine like the jewel in the Ethiop's ear.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

Agias's neck and kissed him; and then with astounding impartiality sprang into Sesostris's lap, and patted the old Ethiop's black cheeks, and bestowed on him all manner of endearing epithets.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

She loved to descant upon it as the cause and explanation of her own arrogant habit of feeling; and she seemed, indeed, to have inherited something of the Indian's _hauteur_ along with the Ethiop's subtle cunning and abundant amiability.

Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900

Forbes-Robertson's eye first lights upon the Southern child "whose beauty hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear."

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

Upon arriving in Salem, Mr. Dike went to find my husband; whom, however, I saw afar off in the crowd of ugly men, showing like a jewel (pearl) in an Ethiop's ear, so fine and pale, with the large lids cast down, and a radiant smile on his lips.

Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

She loved to descant upon it as the cause and explanation of her own arrogant habit of feeling; and she seemed indeed to have inherited something of the Indian's hauteur along with the Ethiop's supple cunning and abundant amiability.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

She loved to descant upon it as the cause and explanation of her own arrogant habit of feeling; and she seemed indeed to have inherited something of the Indian's hauteur along with the Ethiop's supple cunning and abundant amiability.

Suburban Sketches William Dean Howells 1878

Then the last metaphor is made one of the parts in a simile; what is therein expressed being likened to a rich jewel hanging in an Ethiop's ear.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

And bright the jewelled band that circleth an Ethiop's arm;

Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 Olive Truth Gilbert 1850