Sentence examples for shell glass from inspiring English sources

Of raffia embellished with shell, glass, beads and leather, it is essentially a bushlike skirt woven in a checkerboard pattern, which hangs on the body by means of shell-beaded straps across the naked chest.

Leaf charms come in a wide variety of sizes, styles (prefabricated with a loop for easy attachment or beads with holes to thread on wires called head pins) and materials (sterling silver, gold and bronze in solid state or foil, bone or horn, shell, glass, polished stone and wood or a mix of these materials).

By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, June 1 , 1946P. 61 A man buys a pair of tortoise shell glasses and everyone suspects him of being a Communist.

"The lure of the family business is tough to ignore," said Mr. Epstein, whose tortoise shell glasses and easy demeanor make him seem more counselor than boss to the store's 40 employees.

"He's not like the typical guy," Ms. Banerjee, 43, said of her husband, 45, who in his bright print shirt and thick tortoise shell glasses has the look of a 1950s film star.

Thanks in part to an increase in the number of talented young winemakers actively seeking out organically grown grapes to make their wines from, and a coincidental rise in beards, tortoise shell glasses, farmers markets and small wine bars, organic wines are finally carving out a niche for themselves.

A relatively slight man of 56, with round tortoise shell glasses, Downey will relocate from Toronto where he is currently the chief executive of Tennis Canada.

That is when he isn't lost in thought, with a vacant look behind his tortoise shell glasses.

As I peeked into the living room, I saw my mom furtively typing into her own cellular device, beaming while nudging her glasses back up on her nose... Her Old Tortoise shell glasses.

At the mall one Saturday, my friends and I went into an opticians and began trying on frames for a lark, and I fell in love with a pair of groovy round-framed tortoise shell glasses.

I left the office, promptly removed the tortoise shell glasses, changed into my skinny jeans, a favorite sweater, suede heeled boots, put down my hair and applied a little mascara and blush.