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...ure of the Speckled Band, 131 -- The Adventure of the Engineer?s Thumb, 152 -- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, 170 -- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, 189 -- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, 210...

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...le Bachelor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 The Adventure of the ... ... how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.” The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet 189 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet 11 H OLMES,” said I as I... ...For a while he could not get his words out, but 11 “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet” The Strand May 1892 pp. 511 525 190 The Adventures of Sherloc... ...able to find remunerative investments for our funds The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet 191 as upon our increasing our connection and the number of our... ...ase which he had laid beside his chair. ‘You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?’ “ ‘One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,... ...gold chasing is incal culable. The lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the sum 192 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which ... ...nd to refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I need not say that a gr... ...her. I have three maid servants who have been with The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet 193 me a number of years and whose absolute reliability is quit... ... was closed. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. “ ‘Where have you p...

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... lance. Magellan's arm fell helpless and at the same time a tall savage with a coronet of feathers struck a terrific blow on the Admiral's leg. The br...

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...r [brow] her skin such lustre sets, 5 They seeme no sweat drops, but pearle coronets. Ranke sweaty froth thy Mistresse’s brow defiles, Like sperm... ... As when from flowry meads th’hills shadow steales. Off with that wyerie Coronet and shew 15 The haiery Diademe which on you doth grow: Now off...

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...en presented to my mind while sitting opposite a gimcrack coat-of-arms and coronet that are painted in the Invalides Church, and assigned to one of th... ...r’s Generals. Ventrebleu! Madam, what need have they of coats-of- arms and coronets, and wretched imitations of old ex- ploded aristocratic gewgaws th... ...y?— archiepiscopal ring. On his head was the mitre. It is unlike the godly coronet that figures upon the coach- panels of our own Right Reverend Bench...

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..., SURREY, bear ing the rod of silver with the dove, crowned with an earl’s coronet. Collars of SS. 7. SUFFOLK, in his robe of estate, his coronet on... ...te wand, as high steward. With him, NORFOLK, with the rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head. Collars of SS. 8. A canopy borne by four of the Cinq... ...ntleman : It is; and all the rest are countesses. Second Gentleman : Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed; And sometimes falling ones. Firs...

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... bearing the Rod of Siluer with the Doue, Crowned with an 2431 Earles Coronet. Collars of Esses. 2432 7 Duke of Suffolke, in his Robe of Est... ...Collars of Esses. 2432 7 Duke of Suffolke, in his Robe of Estate, his Coronet on his 2433 head, bearing a long white Wand, as High Steward. W... ...434 him, the Duke of Norfolke, with the Rod of Marshalship, 2435 a Coronet on his head. Collars of Esses. - 54 - The Famous History of the Li... ...2468 1 It is, and all the rest are Countesses. 2469 2 Their Coronets say so. These are Starres indeed, 2470 And sometimes falling o...

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...s the train across her lap for her. He then places her footstool according to her desire, after which he puts her coronet where it will be convenient ... ...esire, after which he puts her coronet where it will be convenient to her hand when the time for the simultaneous coroneting of the nobles shall arriv... ...gentle and beautiful young girls, with beaming eyes and fresh complexions, who may possibly put on their jewelled coronets awkwardly when the great ti... ...ng of the peers of the realm in their stately robes. These were conducted ceremoniously to their seats, and their coronets placed conveniently at hand... ...ed along the spacious transept; for with one impulse every indi- vidual in the great concourse of nobles lifted a coronet and poised it over his or he...

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... The next day, the great Southdown female family carriage, with the Earl’s coronet and the lozenge (upon which the three lambs trottant argent upon th... ... are no more related to John of Gaunt than you are) trying on his father’s coronet, he gives you a natural description of all heirs appar- ent. If you... ...of fate and doom was on the threshold—the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. The absent lord’s children meanwhile prattled ... ...ess perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. The feasts there were of the grandest in London, but ...

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...ed 65 Sir Walter Scott with seed-pearl. On the top of the canopy were two coronets, resembling those of an earl and countess. Stools covered with vel... ... France and Scotland would gladly have wedded an English baron; but a free coronet of England is worth a crown matri- monial held at the humour of a w... ... his trim array as accords with riding vest- ments; for robes of state and coronets are only for princely halls.” “Well, then,” said the Countess, “my... ..., if we can pardon ourselves the ill we have wrought him, I will wager the coronet I am to share with you one day that he is incapable of returning in... ...er cognizance, being a fire-drake holding in his mouth a brickbat, under a coronet of an Earl’s degree,” said Master Mumblazen, “and bearing a letter ... ...e might wait till it consisted with my pleasure that she should put on the coronet?” The Countess Amy viewed the subject in directly an oppo- site lig... ...t trims her for a festal night, The fairy deck’ d her hair, and placed her coronet aright. Elizabeth’s attachment to the Italian school of poetry was ... ... of which she could only distinguish that it was surmounted with an Earl’s coronet. The old man looked at her with a ghastly smile, and said, “Amy, ar...

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...le peers, and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds, your Grace salutes their ear. Tis t...

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... Pray did you see her answer to his letter?’ Smart uniforms and sparkling coronets Are spurn’d in turn, until her turn arrives, After male lo... ...! All song and sentiment; whose hearts were set Less on a convent than a coronet. There were four Honourable Misters, whose Honour was more ... ...rs in plenty. At sixteen she came out; presented, vaunted, She put all coronets into commotion: At seventeen, too, the world was still enchant...

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... The next day, the great Southdown female family carriage, with the Earl’s coronet and the lozenge (upon which the three lambs trottant argent upon th... ... are no more related to John of Gaunt than you are) trying on his father’s coronet, he gives you a natural description of all heirs appar- ent. If you... ...of fate and doom was on the threshold—the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. 485 Thackeray The absent lord’s children mean... ...ess perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. The feasts there were of the grandest in London, but ... ...are of the best: and from an old grudge probably to Lady Steyne (for whose coronet her lady- ship, then the youthful Georgina Frederica, daughter of t... ...Heaven could bestow on her, and Jos might have put a Countess’s shield and coronet by the side of his own arms on his carriage and forks; when—when ev...

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... Neroni. —Nata Stanhope. And over the name she had a bright gilt coronet, which certainly looked very magnificent. How she had come to conco... ...l herself Mrs Josiah Smith, on marrying a man of the latter name. The gold coronet was equally out of place, and perhaps inserted with even less excus... ...ly, and any such pretence on his part would have been simply ridiculous. A coronet, however, was a pretty orna- ment, and if it could solace a poor cr... ...ng once of a wide spread race whose name had received the honours of three coronets, scions from which sat for various constituencies, some one of who... ...u- tiful female hand, and the gummed wafer bore on it an impress of a gilt coronet. Though Eleanor had never seen such a one before, she guessed that ...

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...ted, is not so certain. Humpy Hengist and dumpy Horsa, quitting ledger and coronet, might recur to their sea bowlegs and red-stubble chins, might take... ...er of a soft warm wind along the Embankment, and dark Thames magnificently coroneted over his grimy flow. There is no grasping of one who quickens us.... ...father’s health, too, was—but this was Dudley calculating. Where there are coronets, calcula- tions of this sort must needs occur; just as where there...

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...hunts for boys who know not two and two are four.” “Kind words are more than coronets,” She said, and wondering looked at me: “It is the dead unhappy ...

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... sorry to lose?” The handkerchief was indeed richly embroidered, and had a coronet and arms at one of its corners. Aramis blushed excessively, and sna... ...ractive, stole some perfumed paper, and sealed her letter with a duchess’s coronet.” “What do you say?” “Hold! I must have lost it,” said the young ma... ... freshness and beauty which many duchesses would have purchased with their coronets. 336 The Three Musketeers “Kitty,” said he, “I will read to the b...

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... cooked up the match. He wanted a fortune for his nephew, and she wanted a coronet for her niece! I can’t think how she came to be satisfied with a tr... ...se jewels of living light went on to con- nect themselves with the radiant coronets of some whom the world might call blighted in—’ It had brought on ... ...ill.’ ‘I cannot say. No one knows, without a trial, what the no- tion of a coronet will do with a girl. After all her pretensions she may be the more ...

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...le comforts. His friend had even hinted at the correct reproduction of his coronet. This marked man of the world had added that the Americans are grea... ...d man of the world had added that the Americans are greatly impressed by a coronet. I know not whether it was scep- ticism or modesty, but Count Vogel...

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...er once—no, not for a moment of weakness—didst thou revel in the vision of coronets and honour from man. Coronets for thee! Oh, no! Honours, if they c... ...course. The pope’s tiara is a tall cap of golden cloth, encircled by three coronets. 88 17 JUDGES EXAMINING THE PRISONER: The 117 Thomas De Quincey j...

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...ain and key within his robe. “Your greatest treasure, father! Is that your coronet?” “You will know one day,” said his father, putting the little hand... ... lined with ermine, was round his shoulders, and, instead of a helmet, his coronet was on his head; but, in contrast with this rich array, over the co... ...the Altar with a cushion, on which was placed a circlet of gold, the ducal coronet; and another Baron, following him closely, carried a long, heavy sw... ...g, heavy sword, with a cross handle. The Archbishop of Rouen received both coronet and sword, and laid them on the Altar. Then the service proceeded. ... ...- ders, and lay in heaps on the ground. The Archbishop then set the golden coronet on his long, flowing hair, where it hung so loosely on the little h... ...d as he was, but Osmond held up the train of his mantle, Sir Eric kept the coronet on his head, and he himself held fast and lovingly the sword, thoug...