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    brooch


    1. fastening the front with a large brooch and a near-instinctive gesture


    2. Manda had first discovered the brooch when she was twelve-years-old


    3. She opened the little box and peered at the brooch, resting on a bed of white cotton batting


    4. Manda thought it was the most beautiful brooch she had ever seen


    5. “Daddy, can I have the brooch?” Manda asked him


    6. And besides, it’s not just any brooch


    7. ” He told her that the brooch had once belonged to her grandmother, Lizzie, who had been the best singer in town


    8. Since she had no daughters, Lizzie had passed the brooch on to Bertram


    9. Before it came to him, the brooch had been lost three times and had always found its way back to the family


    10. If Bertram had thought the story would make Manda understand why she couldn’t have the brooch, he was mistaken

    11. And so it had been firmly planted in Manda’s brain that in a few short weeks the beautiful brooch that had once belonged to their grandmother would be hers


    12. Instead of the brooch as she had expected, inside the box was a watch – a grinning, white-gloved Mickey Mouse walking across the face with his big yellow feet


    13. What happened to the brooch?


    14. It was the brooch she had loved so much, the one he had promised to give her for her birthday


    15. “You said that brooch would be mine


    16. He tried to explain how he had originally planned to give Sierra the brooch since she was older, but had forgotten when Manda asked him for it


    17. The brooch had been the clearest sign to her that their father loved Sierra more than he loved her, if she ever had doubted it before


    18. Yet for all the love he had showered on Sierra, and the many times he had chosen her over Manda, Sierra had ended up tossing the brooch away, and him with it


    19. And then when she had mentioned the brooch, it had only made things worse


    20. It was the angel brooch, the one she had wanted so long ago, when their father had given it to Sierra instead

    21. between a brooch and an engagement ring


    22. A brooch committed a man to nothing, it


    23. She fingered the brooch she had worn the entire week


    24. She wore a familiar brooch on an equally familiar sweater


    25. He took out a large brooch set with rubies and pearls, in the form of a butterfly


    26. He turned the brooch over and pressed a tiny knob at the back


    27. This brooch has been valued at four thousand pounds and is a collector’s item


    28. She wore a dark blue silk dress decorated with a matching scarf pinned with a gold brooch, elegant dark blue shoes, hair scraped back into a tight bun


    29. If she didn"t see proof of her existence, she would go mad! She might find some clue MacFife had missed, and she wanted to see if the brooch she had been promised was there, or if her mother had taken it with her


    30. Upon learning his true identity, Oedipus puts out his eyes with Jocasta's brooch, and

    31. silver brooch in the shape of a bird


    32. Just to take off the plainness of the dress, she wore a gold bangle with matching earrings and pinned to the left side a small gold owl brooch


    33. “This was your mother’s” he said, holding out the brooch, Cerian took it


    34. She stood in a small courtyard of hard-packed earth, she slipped her cloak off and pocketing the brooch she threw the cloak over the chestnut’s withers


    35. heavy Epona brooch and placed it in the Count’s hand, ”I was told it belonged to her


    36. “I say nothing,” Ambrosius corrected her, “I gave that brooch you wear to your mother on board ship, the fact that you wear it and that you know about your mother is proof enough for me


    37. He wore a velvet ruby jacket trimmed with silver, trousers, and tunic with a brooch, his long hair tied back into a ponytail, and he had a slight frown on his face


    38. I even found a box with a gold brooch in it, and a bracelet


    39. Nestled on a bed of white sheep’s wool lay a bride’s brooch, fashioned


    40. Tamarlan sat in the middle of the northern plains, like a fancy jewel set in the middle of an otherwise unembellished brooch

    41. His was dressed in fine orange and red robes; a golden phoenix brooch was pinned to his chest


    42. have it stuffed so that she can wear it as a brooch


    43. Flanders rubbed the turf with her toe, thinking of her garnet brooch


    44. Flanders's twopenny- halfpenny brooch for ever part of the rich accumulation? and if all the ghosts flocked thick and rubbed shoulders with Mrs


    45. A garnet brooch has dropped into its grass


    46. Betty Flanders's darning needles are safe too and her garnet brooch


    47. Then she unfastened the brooch of her robe


    48. I judged him to be a bachelor from the frayed condition of his linen, and he appeared to have sustained a good many bereavements; for he wore at least four mourning rings, besides a brooch representing a lady and a weeping willow at a tomb with an urn on it


    49. He then explained this affectionate apostrophe, by touching his brooch representing the lady and the weeping willow at the tomb with the urn upon it, and saying, "Had it made for me, express!"


    50. " Wemmick's attention being thus directed to his brooch, he put down the cast, and polished the brooch with his pocket-handkerchief
























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    Synonyms for "brooch"

    breastpin broach brooch clasp badge jewellery jewel

    "brooch" definitions

    a decorative pin worn by women


    fasten with or as if with a brooch