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Examples
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The double closure on the Savoy clutch was inspired by the six-prong Tiffany engagement-ring setting.
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It was more likely Chris had stopped by the restaurant on his way to school to give his grandmother a heads-up on the engagement-ring situation.
Cruel Intent J.A. Jance 2008
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Blue Nile's sales have grown from 1 percent to 1.5 percent of the U.S. engagement-ring market since the beginning of the year.
Dot-Com Diamonds 2007
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As for the engagement-ring, modern fashion prescribes a diamond solitaire, which may range in price from two hundred and fifty to two thousand dollars.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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In Milazzo and its territory the fiancé makes a present of a small gold cross for the neck, an engagement-ring and a dish of fish.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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"I envy you, living alone and having your own things" -- and engaged in this exalted way, which had no recognition or engagement-ring, she added in her own mind.
Night and Day 1920
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"Let me look at your engagement-ring, Aunt Charlotte," she said, noticing her own.
Night and Day 1920
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I don't mind your being there, but I'm not going to have crowds of other brides and bridegrooms taking up the whole aisle -- said she, seizing her engagement-ring and -- Oh, bother!
First Plays 1919
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Claude, alias "Dora" Eweword, struck a match, and upon discovering the fragments of his engagement-ring in the piece of paper she had handed him, was silent for a minute or two, and then said --
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916
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He chattered about our old school, which he remembered only with dislike and disgust; told me cold-bloodedly of the disastrous fate of one or two of the old fellows who had been among his chief tormentors; insisted on an expensive wine and the whole gamut of the "rich" menu; and finally informed me, with a good deal of niggling, that he had come up to town to buy an engagement-ring.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915
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