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  • "It's a finger-ring, a Viking design," she murmured.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Thereafter Aurea gave her withal a golden collar for the neck, and Viridis a girdle of silver well-wrought, and Atra a gold finger-ring set with a sapphire stone; and all these she did on her; but yet she knew that they were tokens to be delivered to the three lovers according as was due.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • "It's a finger-ring, a Viking design," she murmured.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Then Habundia kissed her and said: It is a joy to me to see thee so valiant, but herein may I help thee somewhat; here is a gold finger-ring, see thou! fashioned as a serpent holding his tail in his mouth; whenso thou goest on this quest, set thou this same ring on the middle finger of thy left hand, and say thou above thy breath at least:

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • We go forth austere, dedicated, believing in the iron links of Destiny, and will not turn on our heel to save our life: but a book, or a bust, or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will: my finger-ring shall be the seal of Solomon; fate is for imbeciles; all is possible to the resolved mind.

    Representative Men 2006

  • Her life is in danger as someone tries to stop her return home and gain possession of the ancient finger-ring, which she learns has certain powers.

    Archive 2006-08-27 Miss Snark 2006

  • He had abandoned even his mementoes. folded in cloth, I found a woman's finger-ring.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • Not a cross studded with semi-precious stones, but a ring, a thin gold finger-ring made in the spiral form of a coiled snake, with two splinters of red for eyes.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

  • Not a cross studded with semi-precious stones, but a ring, a thin gold finger-ring made in the spiral form of a coiled snake, with two splinters of red for eyes.

    An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

  • The part I read first said: "To my dear friend and associate Mitchell Courtenay I bequeath and devise my ivory-inlaid oak finger-ring (inventory number 56,987) and my seventy-five shares of Sponsors 'Stock in the Institute for the Diffusion of Psychoanalytic Knowledge, a New York Non-Profit Corporation, with the injunction that he devote his leisure hours to active participation in this organization and the furtherance of its noble aim."

    The Space Merchants Pohl, Frederik 1952

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