watch-charm

Familiar as I was with my friend's methods, it was not difficult for me to follow his deductions, and to observe the untidiness of attire, the sheaf of legal papers, the watch-charm, and the breathing which had prompted them.

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder 1981

"As Dorothy's paper-weight -- no, it can't be that -- I could never keep anything down -- it must have been Dorothy's watch-charm," interrupted

Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Margaret Penrose

I can tell by his watch-charm -- that square bit of enamel with the rising sun in the middle, and the letters 'I.O. U.' in red, white, and blue, around it.

The Statesmen Snowbound Robert Fitzgerald

Mr. Snyder's parcel revealed a watch-charm fashioned in the shape of a tiny, candid-eye camera.

Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories 1928

On the cross is his new number; for officially a "Zoner" is always a number; that of the brass-check he wears as a watch-charm alive, that at the head of his grave when his canal-digging is over.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

Jake bought everything the newsboys offered him: candy, oranges, brass collar buttons, a watch-charm, and for me a

My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Jake bought everything the newsboys offered him: candy, oranges, brass collar buttons, a watch-charm, and for me a

My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

"We are both business men, and both punctual, Mr. Flint," he said, and sat down in the empty chair beside his host, eyeing without particular favour him of the watch-charm, whose cigar was not a very good one.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

The magnate was, as usual, fortified behind his oak desk; the secretary with a bend in his back was in modest evidence; and an elderly man of comfortable proportions, with a large gold watch-charm portraying the rising sun, and who gave, somehow, the polished impression of a marble, sat near the window smoking a cigar.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

The magnate was, as usual, fortified behind his oak desk; the secretary with a bend in his back was in modest evidence; and an elderly man of comfortable proportions, with a large gold watch-charm portraying the rising sun, and who gave, somehow, the polished impression of a marble, sat near the window smoking a cigar.

Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909