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  • Don’t you see half the ladies of our acquaintance, my Lady Kill-daylight and Mrs. Crump, and the rest of them, carry their jewels to town, and bring nothing but paste and marcasites back.

    Act the Third 1909

  • He had already spread out his apparatus of gold rings, marcasites, and other metallic substances, a pretty little box of which he always carried about with himself; and he suspended a piece of metal by a string over another piece, which he placed upon the table.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892

  • Lady Kill-daylight, and Mrs. Crump, and the rest of them, carry their jewels to town, and bring nothing but paste and marcasites back.

    She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith 1752

  • Button of the Day: 18th Century Fairy Tale button made of lapis, pearl, ruby, carnelian, coral, malachite, white/yellow/pink gold rimmed in marcasites.

    Whimsy Speaks Again 2010

  • Don’t you see half the ladies of our acquaintance, my Lady Kill-daylight, and Mrs. Crump, and the rest of them, carry their jewels to town, and bring nothing but paste and marcasites back.

    She Stoops to Conquer 2004

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