jewelry

See Also: CLOTHING

1. A pear-shaped diamond, as big as your thumb —Paige Mitchell
2. An assortment of costly [and of questionable taste] stones … very much like something Hansel and Gretel might well have plucked from the witch’s house to eat —Henry Van Dyke
3. Bracelets seemed to grow up her arms like creeping plants —Nadine Gordimer
4. Bracelets … warm and heavy, alive like flesh —Elizabeth Taylor
5. A diamond as big as an Englishman’s monocle —Lael Wertenbaker
6. A diamond as big as the Ritz —F. Scott Fitzgerald

   This served as the title for a famous Fitzgerald story.

7. A diamond … as big as your fourth fingernail —Gerald Kersch
8. Diamond pinkie rings sputtering like neon on his manicured fingers —Jonathan Valin
9. Diamonds as big as grapes —Louis Adamic
10. Diamonds as big as potatoes —Henry James
11. Diamonds flashed … like drops of frozen light —Paige Mitchell
12. Earrings tiny as pinheads —Richard Ford
13. A medallion that could have anchored the Queen Mary —William Mcllvanney
14. Necklace … flashed like summer lightning —Anais Nin
15. Pearl … shaped like the full moon, and whiter than the morning star —Oscar Wilde
16. (Wedding) ring … pink gold like the morning light —Anon
17. Rubies as big as hen’s eggs, and sapphires that were like gloves with lights inside them —F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. Rubies like cherries, sapphires like grapes —Isak Dinesen
19. Rubies like headlights —Philip Levine
20. She was encrusted with jewels like a Maharini —MacDonald Harris