bejewelled

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They passed out into the beautiful night: the sky was radiantly bejewelled, the air crisp and cold, and harmless to do ill.

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  • Dame Beatrice spread much-bejewelled yellow claws and nodded. —  My Bones Will Keep - Gladys Mitchell- Bradley 35
  • I love the Faberge 'eggs, for their bejewelled wonder, and yet these interest me more, I think it is the intracy. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • For example, in the 'bejewelled' puzzle shown in Figure —  Simple Talk rss feed
  • She is an old friend of my aunt He moved on a few steps and bowed over the thin, over-bejewelled fingers of the Countess of Clanarton, an old lady whose vogue still remained unchallenged, although the publication of her memoirs had very nearly sent a highly respected publisher into prison Andrew," she exclaimed, "we are all so distressed about you! —  Nobody's Man
  • As I followed the developments of its intrigue and tracked the heroine from untutored savage, wife of the wild Westerner whose excusable suspicions caused him to brand her as private property, to the moment of her triumph as the bejewelled idol of theatrical New York, the conviction grew upon me that here was a tale surely predestined to be the screen that covers a multitude of melodramatics. —  Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.
 

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