1 Gold ring, with masonic device.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 2 No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence.
3 It was covered with a scarlet cloth, which prevented the device from being seen.
4 His suit of armour was formed of steel, richly inlaid with gold, and the device on his shield was a young oak-tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.
5 A marvellously sage plan," said Fitzurse, "and, as I think, not entirely of thine own device.
6 A fetterlock and shacklebolt azure," said Ivanhoe; "I know not who may bear the device, but well I ween it might now be mine own.
7 His only accomplice was one who could never give him away, and the grotesque, inconceivable nature of the device only served to make it more effective.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 8 A threadbare and venerable device, but useful upon occasion.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 9 And when, in spite of this, the tribunes stubbornly persisted in their efforts to pass the law, declaring the act of Herdonius to be a device of the nobles and no real danger.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII. 10 The latter device made the people ashamed to give, the former ashamed to refuse.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVIII. 11 And this device was afterwards followed by many other captains.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII. 12 Here I must not omit to notice the device practised by Fabius to give his army confidence, when he led it for the first time into Etruria.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII. 13 And as this device was dexterously used it merits imitation.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII. 14 He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye.
15 Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE