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The drive for material goods is non-existent as they view items such as jewels and gold as nothing greater than litter on the streets.
The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
No curtains, frills, or decorations, or worldly objects like clothes, jewels, and mirrors, were allowed.
The legend that he amassed a large fortune in gold and jewels is certainly false.
Without an up-todate register it was impossible to resolve the rival claims concerning temple jewels and villages.
However, on his return the latter refused to restore the jewels to him.
His complaint was that he had been cheated by this jeweller of three jewels.
She had adamantly denied that the stolen jewels had been returned to her.
Swollen with pride, the ruler of the night was seated on his throne inlaid with jewels.
In essence, the novitiate renounced all the finer things of life, symbolized by "silks and jewels" in favor of the life of the nun.
In the tenth she was beginning to receive visitors of standing, and a golden crown and jewels were added to her coat.
Courtiers played their parts in carefully selected clothes; jewelled hats, white satins, tawny velvets, orange taffetas.
All too often, though, these jewels are obscured by dense thickets of more routine description.
Quite apart from the rare and expensive jewels and lavishly set apartments, an army of retainers provided sumptuous foods and an ever-changing wardrobe of exquisite clothes.
Her delight in the beauty of the jewels, and her recoil at their inevitable association with materiality, money, and male economic practices, reveal the jewelry's power to signify contradictory discourses.
The questions about her connection to the stolen jewels are thus envisioned as potentially having an afterlife, sustaining interest and discussion despite passing into the realm of collective memory.
Although they offered to take her out with them, she told them she was afraid that, if she were to leave, someone might steal the jewels.
They are frequently termed, with justification, as the jewels in the crown of our landscape.
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I shall read three quotations which are jewels of parliamentary history.
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They are the jewels in the crown of this country.
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There is no pretence in this case that the jewels were stolen by servants or working people.
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We should certainly move away from what began as a defensive technique to try to protect those jewels and into the era of positive management.
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One of our great scientific jewels would be dismembered.
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They are the most precious and the greatest jewels in the crown that we hold.
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We have a number of real jewels of reactionary prose.
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Juries found that £100 worth of jewels was worth a few shillings so that the man need not be hanged.
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One of the jewels in our policy was the housing action and general improvement areas.
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I never regarded the crown jewels as being the major issue.
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The crown of the west midlands has many jewels in it.
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I do not think that it is one of the jewels in the crown of direct labour.
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He is not straying wide of the matter being debated, because the preservation of our resorts as jewels is important to the leisure industry.
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There is no reason to think that the jewels are state property; they are royal property.
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I had many oratorical jewels prepared for the debate, but we were held up by the forces of unreason.
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Is it the fact that the jewels have been returned?
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We really should not continue to see public bodies preside over the damage or decline of those jewels in the crown.
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He was robbed of his spending money but the thieves left the jewels.
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There was no intention by the prosecution to make any use of the document called the "crown jewels".
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They threw in earth, pens, paper, jewels and gold, and the chasm remained unfilled.
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Certainly in my income bracket, there is no selectivity as regards jewellery; we cannot get near jewels anyway.
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I believe that, as we speak, she is concluding her visit to one of the jewels among our tourist facilities: the national marine aquarium.
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The eight events have rightly been called the crown jewels of sport.
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The way in which we have built up our occupational pension scheme funds is one of the jewels in this country's crown.
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If the same thing happens over the next year in respect of the 12 electricity companies, they will have thrown away the industry's crown jewels.
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We shall always treasure the jewels that fell from his lips.
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As everyone knows, the pharmaceutical industry is one of the jewels in our trading crown.
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I am informed that it was not in the so-called "crown jewels".
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I also regard the creation of the housing association movement as one of the jewels in our crown.
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If not the heart, our historic houses are the jewels with which the countryside is decked.
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Mining machinery is one of the jewels in our export crown.
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The next day a gentleman convicted of smuggling in£1 million worth of jewels was allowed to commute his sentence to a£500 fine.
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The alleged attempt to use the jewels as currency is also unsupported by evidence.
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Already, too, she is the owner of quite a considerable quantity of jewels.
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One of the great jewels in our crown has been our documentaries.
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Every country and region has its jewels and cultural heritage which it must protect as much as possible against earthquakes.
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One of the jewels in the crown of our economy is the growth in the small business sector.
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One of the jewels in our economic crown is the growth of small businesses.
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The leading lady never has her jewels stolen and the low comedian never falls down the back stairs and breaks his leg.
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People do not have expensive jewels, shares and all the other bits and pieces to hand on to their offspring.
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He told us last night that compromise and concession were two great political jewels.
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Will he not take the present opportunity of exposing those jewels to the open air, or is he afraid of tarnishing them?
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Take the manufacture of some luxury goods for women, for instance, jewels.
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I would suggest that we could do with a few more of those jewels in that particular crown.
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They have been described as the crown jewels of our wildlife heritage.
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The national parks, as the jewels in the countryside crown, require particular care and attention.
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Indeed, his remarks have been one of the jewels which we have garnered from the debate, and, by heaven, we shall bring them to the attention of the public.
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Individual departments of excellence can and do flourish in virtually all universities, and a system that enables those individual jewels to be recognised and supported is required.
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They cannot get these savings out of the country, and are translating them into jewels and things of that kind, and buying tickets in round-about ways.
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The women threw in their jewels.
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They may be jewels in their own right, but they have been wrecked by revolution and confiscation from the social and environmental context in which they were set.
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You may go about with fine garments adorned with jewels, but your feet are on the soil of the earth, and you may have tattered and ragged boots.
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However, there are a few profitable areas of operation, jewels that shine from the murky background of the operation—murky in the financial sense, not necessarily in the public service sense.
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Lowland heath land is a priority habitat for nature conservation in this country and is recognised internationally as one of the jewels in our nature conservation crown.
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I was then given that authority, which is why the whole of the "crown jewels", rather than a misleading part of it, was put before the jury.
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He runs away from home taking money and jewels.
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The women too donated their jewels for this national movement.
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Jewels are worn by children, who finally give them up as they mature.
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Aino wanders to the storehouse and dresses in the finest clothes and jewels, she wanders through the countryside bewailing her lot, singing as she walks.
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Enchanting is done by using enchanting jewels, which are bought from pet shops.
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Ceramic plastic, jewels and coins were made in the pattern of these developed centres.
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One of the crowning jewels to be found in the gothic metal genre and particularly one album that shouldn't be taken lightly.
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The net is set with jewels which have the extraordinary property that they reflect all of the other jewels.
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Metal utensils are typically made out of bronze or brass, the nobility version of silver and decorated with jewels.
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There were no diamonds, jewels, gold, or any other riches.
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The two floors that house the collection of jewels have an entrance independent from that of the museum, and can therefore be visited separately.
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His original invention was meant to be musical jewels, but they failed.
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The episode had problems with the censors, who did not want the characters to say family jewels on prime time television.
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He asks her to stay, sell her remaining jewels for money and move to a new place where they can find happiness.
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Unwillingly, he obeyed her, and got the jewels.
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Mathilde always imagined herself in a high social position with wonderful jewels.
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Amalia was a great collector of art and amassed many jewels, which were inherited by her four surviving daughters.
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Hints about the order of the jewels are also hidden throughout the game.
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They decorated tignons with their jewels and ribbons, and used the finest available materials to wrap their hair.
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As the lovers escaped with the jewels, the alarm was raised.
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Younger one obsessed with jewellery confesses that she loves him more than any of expensive jewels.
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The government demanded to inspect the crown jewels, as it was the property of the state.
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Armatures could be very costly some were flamboyantly decorated with exotic feathers, jewels and precious metals.
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Eventually, the gang is rounded up, and the jewels taken from the heroine are restored to their proper owner.
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Infuriated, he demands that she tell him where the jewels are.
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