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  • Then he set a great stone in the sack in my stead and cast it into the sea; but, when thou signedst to him to throw me in, thy seal-ring dropped from thy finger into the main, and a fish swallowed it.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Now when she saw that he held aloof from her bed and occupied himself with other women, she hated him and jealousy gat the mastery of her and Iblis prompted her to take the seal-ring from him and slay him and make herself Queen in his stead.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I may note that the seal-ring of Cheops (Khufu), found in the Greatest Pyramid, was in the possession of my old friend, Doctor Abbott, of Auburn (U.S.), and was sold with his collection.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Presently, up came two of the servants of the kitchen, questing fish, and I signed to them with my hand, knowing not the property of the seal-ring, and their heads fell off.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I have a handsomer than this: so take the seal-ring and give it to one of thy slave women.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Edit. adds that the seal-ring was of stamped stone and iron, copper and lead.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • First in place, though perhaps second to the Doctor in real authority, was Mr. Winterblossom; a civil sort of person, who was nicely precise in his address, wore his hair cued, and dressed with powder, had knee-buckles set with Bristol stones, and a seal-ring as large as Sir John

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • This large seal-ring, for instance, was — I have heard you say — the property of Socrates; if so, you cannot view it save with devout thankfulness, that your own philosophy has never been tried with the exercise of a Xantippe.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • So give me two pair of gold ankle-rings, a brace of gold bracelets, and pearl ear-drops, with a girdle, a poignard and a seal-ring.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As for me, I am spelled to this seal-ring and may not thwart whoso holdeth it.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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