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...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...
...every college student, if he be of the true breeds, burns with enthusiasm and determination to accomplish great things. He is entering upon the last stage of his preparation to begin life on his own account. His plans are vague, but full of hope. The present is his immediate jewel. Four golden years confront him--years embellished in his imagination with the gilt and tinsel trappings gleaned from books on college life. And out of the brightness of the vision emerges a youth in cap and gown, a hale of glory about his head, a scroll of parchment...
...hand. They knocked him down with a piece of iron pipe, strove to take from his finger a $3,000 diamond ring. Unable to pull the thin gold circle from his bulking knuckle, they took whispered counsel, produced a pair of pliers, cut off the finger, escaped with the jewel...