watch-chains

He ushered us into a hall stuffed with furniture and smelling of birdseed, and sped ahead to close the door of a room from which came the rumbling conversation of worthies with beards and gold watch-chains across their weskits - you can always tell the quality of unseen company by the noise they make, and I was willing to bet that at least half of the "Secret Six" were on hand.

THE NUMBERS 2010

The wearing of jewellery, gold watch-chains, expensive studs and suchlike challenges to poverty declined, costume became more “buttoned up” and restrained.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

In the nineteenth century the well-to-do wore gold watch-chains and gloves, which they carried in their hands in hot weather, as further evidence of substantial means.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

He wore only the thinnest of watch-chains, and no other ornament of any kind.

The Financier 2004

At Rouen she saw some ladies who wore a bunch of charms on the watch-chains; she bought some charms.

Madame Bovary 2003

I could shriek aloud at the smug self-satisfaction, at the mediocrity of this world, which breeds horse-dealers with coral ornaments hanging from their watch-chains.

The Waves 2003

He ushered us into a hall stuffed with furniture and smelling of birdseed, and sped ahead to close the door of a room from which came the rumbling conversation of worthies with beards and gold watch-chains across their weskits - you can always tell the quality of unseen company by the noise they make, and I was willing to bet that at least half of the "Secret Six" were on hand.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

He ushered us into a hall stuffed with furniture and smelling of birdseed, and sped ahead to close the door of a room from which came the rumbling conversation of worthies with beards and gold watch-chains across their weskits - you can always tell the quality of unseen company by the noise they make, and I was willing to bet that at least half of the "Secret Six" were on hand.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

For years after a raid, the Chiricahua would carry with them items—not only watch-chains and jewelry, but photographs and hand-written letters—that must have had only a fetishistic value for them.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

For years after a raid, the Chiricahua would carry with them items—not only watch-chains and jewelry, but photographs and hand-written letters—that must have had only a fetishistic value for them.

Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994