"Pendant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a great deal to see at Plymouth besides the sea itself: but what I particularly wish now is, that you will stand at the Battery of Mount Edgcumbe and look into Barn Pool below you, and there you will see, lying at single anchor, a cutter; and you may also see, by her pendant and ensign, that she ...
— The Pirate and The Three Cutters • Frederick Marryat
... cet etat de choses pour l'Allemagne, pendant les divers voyages que j'ai faits dans ce pays. J'en avais entretenu des savants, des hommes d'Etat, les rois eux-memes. Voici ce que m'ecrivait a cette occasion M. P. Lichtenthaler, directeur de la bibliotheque de ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... thoughtfully: "I'd like to do her hair for her, and see that all her under-things were right, and then put her into a crepe gown of dull blue—a sort of Chinese blue, with a great deal of deep-toned lace for trimming, and give her a topaz pendant set in dull silver, and a big picture hat of ecru net, with a good deal of the lace on it, and one long plume, a little ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed
... too, got hold of the weapon, and brazed up the breech-block immovably, so that it could not be surreptitiously reloaded. He said that his wife had instructed him to take no chances, and that meanwhile, as a fool's pendant, the revolver was as good ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... his dream Jahan began to speak slowly: "You remember that I wanted a pendant for my figure of Fecundity. I had modelled a Charity, but it pleased me so little and seemed so commonplace that I let the clay dry and spoil.... And then the idea of a figure of Justice came to me. But not a gowned figure with the sword and the scales! That wasn't the Justice that inspired ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
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