"Earring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... day, each being begun a little later than the last, that one might be in perfection when Antonius should call for his dinner. Cleopatra vowed once that she would drink the most costly of draughts, and, taking off an earring of inestimable price, dissolved it ...
— Young Folks' History of Rome • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... at the earring in his hand, then, with a convulsive sweep of his arm, he tossed it out into ...
— Despoilers of the Golden Empire • Gordon Randall Garrett
... was the proper thing for Hagar to hate Sarah. Life was thin and insipid without great remorses, revenges, loves. The poor little creature was always aiming at them, and falling short. She was wondering now why Jane wore no jewelry. "Not an earring! Not a hoop on her finger! If I had her money!" glancing down at the blaze of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118 • Various |
