"Shagreen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I am surely right, Duncan,' answered the Lovetenant Todrick, taking his specs deliberately off the brig o' his nose, and faulding them thegither, as he put them first into his shagreen case, and syne into his pocket—'Howsomever, Duncan MacAlpine, I'll pass ye ower for this time, gif ye take my warning, and for the future ware your pay-money on wholesome butcher's meat, like a Christian, ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir
... parcel eagerly. It contained a small shagreen case, which in its turn proved to contain a pair of scissors of antique and curious form, an ivory tablet, yellow with age, a silver bodkin, and a silver fruit-knife, all fitting neatly in their places; the whole case closing with a spring. "It is the prettiest thing I ever saw!" cried Hildegarde. ...
— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards
... melons, spread new lustre On their veiny dull shagreen; While the starred pomegranates cluster Golden balls, with ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... la peau de chagrin—the shagreen skin. (The hero of this story, by Balzac, is given a piece of shagreen, on the condition that all his wishes will be gratified, but that every wish will cause the leather to shrink, and that when it disappears his life will come to an end. Chagrin ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier |
