Sir Richard gave to each yeoman a bow and a quiver of arrows, but to Robin he gave a stout bow
inlaid with the cunningest workmanship in gold, while each arrow in his quiver was innocked with gold.
They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric
inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship.
And having put three or four double pistoles into his pocket to answer the needs of the moment, he placed the others in the ebony box,
inlaid with mother of pearl, in which was the famous handkerchief which served him as a talisman.
Then I continued my search for the entrance, which I knew must be somewhere about; nor had I long to search, for almost immediately thereafter I came upon a small door so cunningly
inlaid in the shaft's base that it might have passed unnoticed by a less keen or careful observer.
To Robin was give the purse containing twoscore golden pounds; to Little John the twoscore silver pennies; and to Allan-a-Dale the fine
inlaid bugle, much to his delight, for he was skilled at blowing sweet tunes upon the horn hardly less than handling the harp strings.
High oaken sideboards, inlaid with ebony, stood at the two extremities of the room, and upon their shelves glittered china, porcelain, and glass of inestimable value.
High pieces of furniture, of black violet ebony inlaid with brass, supported upon their wide shelves a great number of books uniformly bound.
She set me on a richly decorated seat inlaid with silver, there was a footstool also under my feet, and she mixed a mess in a golden goblet for me to drink; but she drugged it, for she meant me mischief.
As soon as she had done washing me and anointing me with oil, she arrayed me in a good cloak and shirt and led me to a richly decorated seat inlaid with silver; there was a footstool also under my feet.
There were embroidered hangings on the wall, and
inlaid furniture such as she had seen in India stood about the room.
How much have we, Louise?" The young girl to whom this question was addressed drew from an
inlaid secretary a small portfolio with a lock, in which she counted twenty-three bank-notes.
Five years later, in the twilight of an April morning, he stood on the green, beside the meeting-house, at Lexington, where now the obelisk of granite, with a slab of slate
inlaid, commemorates the first fallen of the Revolutions.
Here a little knot of struggling warriors trampled a bed of gorgeous pimalia; there the curved sword of a black man found the heart of a thern and left its dead foeman at the foot of a wondrous statue carved from a living ruby; yonder a dozen therns pressed a single pirate back upon a bench of emerald, upon whose iridescent surface a strangely beautiful Barsoomian design was traced out in
inlaid diamonds.
In consequence of this, Colbert, detaining D'Artagnan's envoy, placed in the hands of that messenger a letter from himself, and a small coffer of ebony
inlaid with gold, not very important in appearance, but which, without doubt, was very heavy, as a guard of five men was given to the messenger, to assist him in carrying it.
From the kinky locks of one of the naked young men he drew a hand-carved, fine-toothed comb, the lofty back of which was
inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which he later sold in Sydney to a curio shop for eight shillings.
