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    Use "watch chain" in a sentence

    watch chain example sentences

    watch chain


    1. “How much longer do you think the Huns will last?” asked the nearest reporter, a pince-nez-wearing dandy with a trilby hat and gaiters, pin-stripe seersucker suit, and a long, trailing, golden watch chain


    2. Perry went on, playing with his handsome watch chain and smiling patronizingly on Faith


    3. Her father, Don Fernando, dressed in black with a stiff collar and a gold watch chain, would give her a silver coin on Mondays for the household expenses, and the funeral wreaths finished the week before would be taken away


    4. Instead I’d let him kiss me and skipped away with his watch chain, pressed upon me as a token of his affection


    5. The Galgenbergs expected to see someone who should be blatantly rich, and blatant riches, it dimly felt, would be expressed by much flesh and a thick watch chain


    6. shirt, bronze waistcoat buttons, and a watch chain, and


    7. Some of the ivory had chipped off the middle keys, but it was still polished enough to reflect Mori’s watch chain


    8. ‘It might be mine, in fact,’ Ito said, touching his own watch chain


    9. He could feel the watch chain digging into his hip, but couldn’t summon the will to move


    10. First she smelled the jacket and the vest while she took the watch chain out of the buttonhole and removed the pencil holder and the billfold and the loose change from the pockets and placed everything on the dresser, and then she smelled the hemmed shirt as she removed the tiepin and the topaz cuff links and the gold collar button, and then she smelled the trousers as she removed the keyholder with its eleven keys and the penknife with its mother-of-pearl handle, and finally she smelled the underwear and the socks and the linen handkerchief with the embroidered monogram

    11. Panting and drenched with perspiration, he rushed after her into the bedroom, throwing everything on the floor, his walking stick, his medical bag, his Panama hat, and he made panic-stricken love with his trousers down around his knees, with his jacket buttoned so that it would not get in his way, with his gold watch chain across his vest, with his shoes on, with everything on, and more concerned with leaving as soon as possible than with achieving pleasure


    12. Inside were letters, clippings, photographs, a pair of earrings, a little gold signet ring, and a watch chain braided of hair and tipped with gold swivels


    13. I could see his staring eyes and gleams of light on his studs and watch chain


    14. With rapid, bony fingers he unbuttoned his coat, revealing a shirt, bronze waistcoat buttons, and a watch chain, and quickly pulled out a fat old pocketbook


    15. His first words were to request writing paper and a quill, ink and the great seal that hung on his watch chain


    16. Better a thousand times than the wretched watch chains of hair worn by our fathers would be the embroidered handkerchiefs tucked triumphantly in their hats by the gallants of Elizabeth’s day


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