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Estate/Vintagey looking jewelry (think delicate necklaces) (www. vionnet.com)
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Estate/Vintagey looking jewelry (think delicate necklaces) (www. vionnet.com)
Trends for the Next Era Jane Buckingham 2010
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The _vionnet_ of Bonivard was there, beside one of the pillars, plain enough, worn two inches deep and three feet long in the hard stone.
A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878
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Nothing could be more alien to Bonivard than the character of Byron's prisoner; and all that equipment of six supposititious brothers, who perish one by one to intensify his sufferings, is, it must be confessed, odious and ridiculous when you think of the lonely yet cheerful sceptic pacing his _vionnet_, and composing essays and verses as he walked.
A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878
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As he trod that _vionnet_ out of the stone he meditated upon his reading, his travels, the state of the Church and its reform, politics, the origin of evil.
A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878
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We saw it when we came later to do the whole castle, and to revere the dungeon where Bonivard wore his _vionnet_ in the rock.
A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878
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I do not know whether it was by order of the duke or from his own motion, but I do know that I then had so much leisure for walking that I wore in the rock which formed the floor of the dungeon a _pathlet_ [_vionnet_], or little path, as if one had beaten it out with a hammer. "
A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878
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