Sentence examples for locket for from inspiring English sources

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They made me feel generous, so generous that I decided to give Ella my glass-ball locket for her birthday.

My mother always laughed at my drama and claimed that I got my script from the episode of "The Brady Bunch" in which Alice gives Jan a locket for being a fellow long-suffering middle child.

"He was almost as stubborn as I was," said Mr. Acevedo, who bought the locket for $623,000 -- 10 times the Christie's estimate -- a price that remains the record for a miniature portrait.

Timeless Majesty Love Language Locket For the woman who read "The Five Love Languages" and understood instantly that "Receiving Gifts" was her primary love language, but managed to convince herself that "Acts of Service" was more her style.

But while neither the hoop earrings of Mediterranean coral nor the 19th-century Spanish tortoiseshell head comb that glitters with chips of rhinestone are for sale, there are skull rings designed by the younger Mr. Albrizio for about $200, an engraved sterling silver heart-shaped locket for $30, and an antique Asian ring of monkeys carved in coral for $75.

Like many of Ashbery's descriptions, this one becomes allegorical in the end, as the composer/artist acquires, besides his ironically exclamatory "glorious" souvenirs, aids to artistry: a chain for keys (music? metrics?), a locket for pictures of beloved people, a mini-globe (Stevens's "Planet on the Table") to "stuff with life".

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Early miniatures were often set in ivory cases or in gold lockets for protection against light, humidity, heat and wear.

The locket has for most of the last two centuries remained in the hands of two different families.

Her new father gives her a heart-shaped locket appropriate for a little girl.

Another favorite of mine is the Personalized Signet Locket Necklace for her at $139.95.

If want to permanently encase your photo in the locket, look for a sealer at a craft store that you can lightly paint over the photo.

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