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    jeweller


    1. Fourthly, and lastly, of the work which is made up and completed, but which is still in the hands of the merchant and manufacturer, and not yet disposed of or distributed to the proper consumers; such as the finished work which we frequently find ready made in the shops of the smith, the cabinet-maker, the goldsmith, the jeweller, the china-merchant, etc


    2. I asked the jeweller to fill it out with more gold, to an appropriate heft for the big man who would be wearing it


    3. So it came about that, apart from God before whom we’d made our vows, our witness was the jeweller, a Jew whose name we didn’t ask


    4. jeweller, with a writing engraved for a memorial, after the number of the tribes of Israel


    5. "There's a family run jeweller in town


    6. The jeweller however, thought he would cut corners and save money by using Chatham rubies and sapphires, which would be exactly the same as the original, same hardness same colour and a lot cheaper, so he could pocket the extra


    7. Tighe cursed the jeweller as Noi continued and told him that they had dispatched Prime Master Pon to recover the box several days earlier and knew that it was Tar who switched the box and escaped with the original


    8. The retired jeweller was widowed in the mid-l960s and married the present Mrs


    9. questions would not turn off the old jeweller


    10. “Hah only a jeweller can distinguish true jewels amidst glittering objects

    11. “I expect a Jeweller could be bribed, could he not?” suggested Johnny


    12. Story goes he'd occasionally turn up in Sydney with a nugget, visit the Jeweller, then vanish before anyone could question him


    13. It was Glover the jeweller waving me from his stall


    14. ' The jeweller examined attentively the interior of the inn and the apparent poverty of the persons who were about to sell him a diamond that seemed to have come from the casket of a prince


    15. '—'But how did he obtain it?' asked the jeweller; 'had he it before he was imprisoned?'—'No, monsieur; but it appears that in prison he made the acquaintance of a rich Englishman, and as in prison he fell sick, and Dantes took the same care of him as if he had been his brother, the Englishman, when he was set free, gave this stone to Dantes, who, less fortunate, died, and, in his turn, left it to us, and charged the excellent abbe, who was here this morning, to deliver it


    16. '—'The same story,' muttered the jeweller; 'and improbable as it seemed at first, it may be true


    17. '—'That is,' replied the jeweller, 'I offered 40,000 francs


    18. ' The jeweller drew from his pocket a long flat box, which contained several samples of the articles demanded


    19. —'I hope you will not complain now?' said the jeweller


    20. 'Come, come—give it to me! What a strange fellow you are,' said the jeweller, taking the diamond from his hand

    21. '—'Here they are,' replied the jeweller, and he counted out upon the table 15,000


    22. The thunder growled in the distance; but it was apparently not heard by the jeweller, Caderousse, or La Carconte, absorbed as they were all three with the demon of gain


    23. During this time, the jeweller made the diamond play and sparkle in the lamplight, and the gem threw out jets of light which made him unmindful of those which—precursors of the storm—began to play in at the windows


    24. 'Well,' inquired the jeweller, 'is the cash all right?'


    25. '—'Oh, I am not afraid of thunder,' said the jeweller


    26. —'Thanks,' replied the jeweller


    27. 'I can see neither heaven nor earth,' said the jeweller, who was outside the door


    28. —'And who are you?'—'Eh, pardieu, Joannes, the jeweller


    29. '—'Ma foi,' said the jeweller, drenched with rain, 'I am not destined to return to Beaucaire to-night


    30. La Carconte double-locked the door behind the jeweller

    31. "As the jeweller returned to the apartment, he cast around him a scrutinizing glance—but there was nothing to excite suspicion, if it did not exist, or to confirm it, if it were already awakened


    32. 'Well, well,' said the jeweller, 'you seem, my good friends, to have had some fears respecting the accuracy of your money, by counting it over so carefully directly I was gone


    33. ' The jeweller smiled


    34. '—'Nevertheless,' replied the jeweller, 'if by the time I have finished my supper the tempest has at all abated, I shall make another start


    35. —'Well,' said the jeweller, as he placed himself at table, 'all I can say is, so much the worse for those who are abroad


    36. "The jeweller began eating his supper, and the woman, who was ordinarily so querulous and indifferent to all who approached her, was suddenly transformed into the most smiling and attentive hostess


    37. 'You must be tired,' said she to the jeweller; 'I have spread a pair of white sheets on your bed; go up when you are ready, and sleep well


    38. "All these circumstances did not strike me as painfully at the time as they have since done; in fact, all that had happened (with the exception of the story of the diamond, which certainly did wear an air of improbability), appeared natural enough, and called for neither apprehension nor mistrust; but, worn out as I was with fatigue, and fully purposing to proceed could accurately distinguish every movement of the jeweller, who, after making the best onwards directly the tempest abated, I determined to obtain a few hours' sleep


    39. I fancied that I still heard faint moans, and imagining that the unfortunate jeweller might not be quite dead, I determined to go to his relief, by way of atoning in some slight degree, not for the crime I had committed, but for that which I had not endeavored to prevent


    40. I approached the jeweller, who was not quite dead, and at the sound of my footsteps and the creaking of the floor, he opened his eyes, fixed them on me with an anxious and inquiring gaze, moved his lips as though trying to speak, then, overcome by the effort, fell back and expired

    41. Having no money, and having privately sought advice as to what security could possibly be given by a man in his position, Lydgate had offered the one good security in his power to the less peremptory creditor, who was a silversmith and jeweller, and who consented to take on himself the upholsterer's credit also, accepting interest for a given term


    42. Jacobs, the jeweller


    43. So, though in the clear air of day, suspended against a blue-veined neck, the pure-watered diamond drop will healthful glow; yet, when the cunning jeweller would show you the diamond in its most impressive lustre, he lays it against a gloomy ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun, but by some unnatural gases


    44. He was a jeweller by trade, and as there was no other in the town, he had always plenty of work to do, and was more or less well paid


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    Synonyms for "jeweller"

    jeweler jeweller jewelry maker

    "jeweller" definitions

    someone who makes jewelry


    someone in the business of selling jewelry