Word: jewel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whose children are named James, Jane, Jean, Joan and Jewel? (See THE CABINET...
...palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants, "myriad golden and jewel-encrusted bells," colored glass balls, cheroots, a betel-nut box, "dragons of gold with eyes of jade," "Buddhas of gigantic size with heads that move," parrots, crows, peacocks...
...have never before found a single piece of furniture from so remote an age as that of Sneferu. Experts believe that most of the collapsed wood can be successfully reconstructed by means of the inlay and metal ornamentation. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts now has on exhibition a jewel casket and toilet box of a somewhat later Egyptian princess which was built entirely from the ivory inlay and gold frames...
Withal, they wrapped him round and round to be a perfect mummy, and lifted him into a box heavy as lead but golden, wherein they also put innumerable amulets of beauty and ghostly merit, as well as two swords, jewel-studded...
...black cassocks; the officials of the congress in emblazoned capes; a slender crucifer and two boys bearing candles; and then-with a swishing of heavy skirts in the pomp of pontifical elegance, ageless, sombre, and fiercely-burning- the Bishops. Each was vested in a magnificent cope secured with a jewel-crusted clasp and held open, on the right and left, by two deacons of honor. Each Bishop wore a mitre. The celebrant passed in a rich red damask chasuble, followed by a deacon and a subdeacon in dalmatic and tunic. Last of all came the bishop of the diocese...