"Bijou" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wonder of dimensions and splendor,—a pyramid one hundred feet high, terminating in a fine spire of gold, and surrounded on every side by idols, all curious and precious, from the bijou image in sapphire to the colossal statue in plate gold. A series of trophies these, gathered from the triumphs of Buddhism over the proudest forms of worship in the old pagan world. In the pillars that surround ...
— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens
... wealth. As for "tickers," as poor Rawdon called watches, her apartments were alive with their clicking. For, happening to mention one night that hers, which Rawdon had given to her, was of English workmanship, and went ill, on the very next morning there came to her a little bijou marked Leroy, with a chain and cover charmingly set with turquoises, and another signed Brequet, which was covered with pearls, and yet scarcely bigger than a half-crown. General Tufto had bought one, and Captain Osborne had gallantly presented the other. Mrs. Osborne had no ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... which adjoined the Karolinen Platz, was really a bijou palace, modelled on the Italian style. Everything in it was of the best, for Ludwig had cash and Lola had taste. Thus, her toilet-set was of silver ware; her china and glass came from Dresden: the rooms were filled with ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... will tell you, however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in the front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Detective Stories • Various
... flung far and wide, On virgin fields my London browses, The amaranthine plains are pied With nutty little bijou houses. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 • Various
... said. "You make me feel like a person who lives over a shop at Knightsbridge, or in bijou ...
— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett |
