carcanet

Example Sentences

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My sweet sister shall take her choice of a carcanet among those old-fashioned trinkets.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours: Say that I linger'd with you at your shop To see the making of her carcanet, And that to-morrow you will bring it home.

From The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, William

A thousand reflections danced and flickered about the little room as it revolved in the sunlight, glowing and glittering like the sparkles from a carcanet of jewels.

From The Pagans by Bates, Arlo

Each one wore an iron carcanet, and the crowd was never weary of coming to gaze at them.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

Who scarfed her with the morning? and who set Upon her brow the day-fall's carcanet?

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis