signet
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Are you wearing a martini glass signet ring?
From Salon ● May 1, 2025
A signet ring cast in sterling silver, left, and 14K gold rings by Nicholas Berkofsky of Fell Knives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
Archives show that those who lived in Brown Square included physician Joseph McKenzie; advocate John McLaurin; lord justice clerk Thomas Miller; Lady Agnew; and a writer to the signet, Isaac Grant.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2022
He proudly wore the family crest on a signet ring, but he was also mindful that his father had been accused of collaboration with the Nazis and his mother was “a former American exotic dancer.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
There was a circlet of whiter skin on his third finger where he used to wear the signet ring that Katie had given him when they married.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Mr. Yang has a tattoo on his arm, drawn by a nonbinary Chinese tattoo artist, with ancient signets.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2020
The short exchange had many signets of Mr. Ryan’s nascent leadership style, which contrasts sharply with that of his predecessor, John A. Boehner.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2015
So far, they have found 1,500 objects: gold and silver jewelry, carved signets, artistic glassware and pottery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everybody began attending to the paraphernalia of a challenge, the usual sealing of the gages with signets and so on, and the fixing of the date.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Indeed this was certain since now I saw that over it floated his royal banner which I knew so well, I who had stolen the little White Signet of signets from which it was taken.
From The Ancient Allan by Haggard, Henry Rider
Packets are signeted, mutually sealed, Rucker claps on the Town-seal first, Freytag and Voltaire following with theirs.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Carlyle, Thomas
"And now, Sir Alexander, what say you?" asked the Sieur de Retz, turning to the King's guardian, who had been caressing the curls of his beard with his white and signeted hand.
From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank
For raising and signeting the summonds of reduction in my Lord Abotshall's name, against the minister of Athelstanford, a dollar and a halfe.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord
