signet-ring

Lo! thou hast gotten hold of it and I am become thy slave; so ask what thou wilt, for I hearken to thy word and obey thy bidding; and if thou have need of me at any time, by land or by sea rub the signet-ring and thou wilt find me with thee.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Now I was on the island a-fishing, and this fish came up in the net with the others; whereupon I took it, intending to broil it; but, when I opened its belly, I found the signet-ring therein; so I took it and put it on my finger.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then he brought out to him a stone worth a thousand sequins and said to him, “Take this and set it in a signet-ring for me after the measure of my finger.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The Varangian did not leave the Count of Paris until the latter had in his hands his signet-ring, semee, (as the heralds express it,) with lances splintered, and bearing the proud motto, “Mine yet unscathed.”

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Then he set me herein and chained me and sealed me with his signet-ring, and

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So not a few of the Amirs of Sind were analphabetic and seemed rather proud of it: “a Baloch cannot write, but he always carries a signet-ring.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But if the safe-placing of your present charge shall detain you longer than we think for, we command you in that case to send back our signet-ring by a trusty and speedy messenger, we having present need of the same.

Kenilworth 2004

“I must crave your signet-ring,” said Varney gravely,

Kenilworth 2004

It contained a small signet-ring with his crest, and with it there were but a few words written on a scrap of paper.

The Duke's Children 2004

Leicester drew off the signet-ring which he commonly used, and gave it to Varney, with a haggard and stern expression of countenance, adding only, in a low, half-whispered tone, but with terrific emphasis, the words, “What thou dost, do quickly.”

Kenilworth 2004