The jewel is about long, made of filigreed gold, enclosing a highly polished piece of quartz crystal beneath which is set a cloisonné enamel plaque, with an enamelled image of a man holding floriate sceptres, perhaps personifying Sight or the Wisdom of God.

She received a greeting from officials and a $ 10 gold piece.

* In Chapter 54 it says: " For he would get in change a piece of gold must have sixty mites " ( Italian minuti ).

Bosio writes that when the cornerstone of Valletta was placed, a group of Maltese elders said " Iegi zimen en fel wardia col sceber raba iesue uquie " ( which in modern Maltese reads, " Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija Sciberras kull xiber raba ’ jiswa uqija ," and in English, " There will come a time when every piece of land on Sciberras Hill will be worth its weight in gold ").

All of it is one piece of hammered work, of pure gold.

1 piece of gold and 47 pieces of silver.

On the reverse side of each piece, other than the king and gold general, are one or two other characters, in amateur sets often in a different colour ( usually red ); this side is turned face up during play to indicate that the piece has been promoted.

The stories of his expulsion by the Franks, whose women he was taking ; of his eight-year stay in Thuringia with King Basin and his wife Basina ; of his return when a faithful servant advised him that he could safely do so by sending to him half of a piece of gold which he had broken with him ; and of the arrival in Tournai of Queen Basina, whom he married, come from Gregory of Tours ' Libri Historiarum ( Book ii. 12 ).

As reported by editor Ruth Berman ( issue # 1, Inside Star Trek, July 1968, pp. 15 – 16 ), " ardent rock hound and amateur lapidary " Roddenberry came up with the Vulcan philosophy after he presented Leonard Nimoy with a unique " hand-crafted piece of jewelry ," a " pendent " ( sic ) of polished yellow gold ( circle ) and florentined white gold ( triangle ), with a stone of brilliant white fabulite — an artificial gem " developed by the laser industry and used in space mechanisms for its optical qualities ," and thus well-suited as a gift for an actor in a science fiction show.

In his book Dell ’ Istoria della Sacra Religione et Illustrissima Militia di San Giovanni Gierosolimitano (), written between 1594 and 1602, Giacomo Bosio writes that when the cornerstone of Valletta was placed, a group of Maltese elders said " Iegi zimen en fel wardia col sceber raba iesue uquie " ( Which in modern Maltese reads, " Jiġi żmien li fil-Wardija Sciberras kull xiber raba ’ jiswa uqija ," and in English, " There will come a time when every piece of land on Sciberras Hill will be worth its weight in gold ").

* The Reagan Service: The pattern are bands of scarlet varying in width depending on the scale of the piece and are framed on each side with etched gold.

I kept my eyes open and tried to find out if there was any gold, and I saw that some of them had a little piece hanging from a hole in their nose.

A leafy bough between them, two figures embrace on a small piece of gold foil dating from the Migration Period to the early Viking Age

* Although not made to be worn by human beings and not a piece of regalia, the Crown of the Andes is a crown made of 18-22 carat gold and set with 450 Colombian emeralds originally made for a statue of the Virgin Mary in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Popayán, Colombia.

Mistrustful, Conchobar then sent another spy, Gelbann, who managed to catch a glimpse of Deirdre but was seen by Naoise, who threw a gold chess piece at him and put out his eye.

The 20 franc coins are 21 mm in diameter ( about the size of a U. S. five cent piece ), weigh 6. 45 grams ( gross weight ) and ; at 90 % pure, contain. 1845 ounces or 5. 801 grams of pure gold.

The work involved the sale of documentation of ownership of empty space ( the Immaterial Zone ), taking the form of a cheque, in exchange for gold ; if the buyer wished, the piece could then be completed in an elaborate ritual in which the buyer would burn the cheque, and Klein would throw half of the gold into the Seine.

Several items from the tomb, including parts of gold bracelets, shabti figures and a small piece of a earring or pendant are now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Ilkhanid piece in silk, cotton and gold, Iran or Iraq, early 14th century

The small golden disk close to the 5cm marker is a piece of pure gold weighing one troy grain.

One special piece is a skull covered in gold and incrusted with turquoise.

He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.

The fast-opening of the shutter consists of a piece of aluminum foil ( approximately Af ) placed directly in front of the camera lens so that no light may pass into the camera.

This shutter used titanium foil but consisted of one piece of metal with a fixed opening, which allowed electronic flash synchronisation up to and including its maximum speed of 1 / 500 of a second – rivalling the capabilities of leaf-shutter systems

A tin foil hat is a piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of aluminium foil or similar material.

Related to this is tissue foil, which is made by gluing a thin piece of tissue paper to kitchen aluminium foil.

A second piece of tissue can be glued onto the reverse side to produce a tissue / foil / tissue sandwich.

Each individual cover of this edition varies in colour of the linen as well as in the colours of foil stamping, making each copy a unique piece.

Failing that, another solution was to open the cartridge, cut the tape at the splice, and relieve the excess tension by manually unwinding one or two sections from the outer edge of tape ( loop length ) while keeping the reel stationary, then re-splicing the tape, with a fresh piece of foil ( since the old foil was usually caked with built-up graphite reducing conductivity and making it difficult to change tracks ).

A solution in warm water will remove the tarnish from silver when the silver is in contact with a piece of aluminium foil

Choco Mallows are usually covered in foil and sold in boxes of six, although street vendors and small corner stores may also sell them by piece.

As far back as 1937, R. V. Jones had suggested that a piece of metal foil falling through the air might create radar echoes.

When used as a fishing light, light output can be redirected toward the water by installing a 5 ” X 10 ” piece of aluminum flashing or heavy foil bent into a half circle and placed next to the lamp's circular acrylic lens.

In the United States, a " tinnie " refers to a piece of tin foil that is made into a smoking device, most often for cannabis.

A foil is a very thin sheet of metal, usually made by hammering or rolling a piece of metal.

A Psi wheel is pyramid-shaped top-like device consisting of a small piece of paper or foil balanced on the tip of a pointed object ( such as a toothpick or needle ).

The base is a metal cone made from a round piece of foil, sprinkled with a thin layer of chocolate.

The Dove brand is known for the messages written on the inside of the foil wrapper of each individual chocolate piece.

On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.

How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

The head was wrapped in a turban and on top of the turban rode a great hamper across which a piece of poncho had been flung.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

The clock on the mantel piece was scandalized and ticked so loudly that he glanced at it over his shoulder and then quickly left the room.

It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

Beccaria had almost stumbled on a lead to the relationship between electricity and magnetism when a discharge from a Leyden jar was sent transversally through a piece of watch-spring steel making its ends magnetic.

As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

He was holding the piece of lead pipe out to me.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

Every piece of the nightmare was clear, in place ; ;

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).