mourning-ring

• “Keep Briton for yourself; nobody would pay the value of that noble beast, and I would rather give him to you — like a mourning-ring bequeathed by a dying man to his executor.”

  Eug�nie Grandet

• “You become a slave for life, and then your dead tyrant leaves you a mourning-ring, and grins at you out of his grave.”

  He Knew He Was Right

• “However, he returned a second time and had no better; the third day, towards evening, he observed an old gentleman in a chaise by himself, whom he robbed of six guineas, a watch, a mourning-ring, and nine and sixpence in silver, and then making over the fields got home very safe.”

  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

• “I had an uncle, a glazier, who died, and left me twenty pounds, and this mourning-ring; and I therefore have made it a rule to break the windows of all public places ever since.”

  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2

• “Upon it was the mourning-ring Miss Frost had always worn.”

  The Lost Girl

• “As a rule she only wore the mourning-ring of black enamel and diamond, which had been always on Miss Frost's finger.”

  The Lost Girl

• “There was a mourning-ring, which had been Mr. Denner's father's, for a distant cousin, who was further comforted by a few hundred dollars, but all the rest was for Willie.”

  John Ward, Preacher

• “The Countess exhibited a mourning-ring on her finger, Mrs. Bonner's bequest to her.”

  Evan Harrington — Volume 7

• “And Sir Barnard has not even left me a mourning-ring?”

  Coralie Everyday Life Library No. 2

• “Sir Rufus Hautley had gone out after the blow had fallen, when the codicil had been searched for in vain, had gone out in anger, shaking the dust from his feet, declining to act as executor, to accept the mourning-ring, to have to do with anything so palpably unjust.”

  Verner's Pride

Show 10 more examples...