"Jeweller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that environment adequately accounts for this relationship is an inadmissible theory. The association between the craft of builder, carpenter, tanner, jeweller, watchmaker, woodcarver, ropemaker, etc., and the painter's art is small at best, and ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
... how it is," Theodosia observed, "but the tradespeople here have a way of doing things that is enchanting. We went into an imition jeweller's in the Rue Vivienne—and such imitations! I'll defy Mrs. Sandhurst—and you know how ill-natured she is—to tell some earrings and brooches we saw from real gold and jewels. Well, what do you think was the sign of the shop, ...
— The Cockaynes in Paris - 'Gone abroad' • Blanchard Jerrold
... Joyce, "from what they do in Derwent-dale and at Minster Lovel. If we pay not our debts here, we go to prison; and folks do but say, Served him right! But if they pay them not there, why, the poor tailor and jeweller must feed their starving childre on the sight of my Lord of Essex' gold lace, and the smell of my Lord of Oxenford his perfumes. Do but think, what a rare ...
— Joyce Morrell's Harvest - The Annals of Selwick Hall • Emily Sarah Holt
... those officers whose parents are not of the lowest class, or who entered so early or so young into the army that they may be said to have been educated there, and as they advanced, have assumed the 'ton' of their comrades of the same rank. I was invited, some time ago, to a wedding, by a jeweller whose sister had been my nurse, and whose daughter was to be married to a captain of hussars quartered here. The bridegroom had engaged several other officers to assist at the ceremony, and to partake of the ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... question I asked. He said, 'Oh, because the Emperor was down and the Allies in Paris, and the Emperor's jeweller nobody, and glad to sell the cameos for one-third their ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various
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