 | Asia - 1816 - 670 pages
...fleur; de Пь, an ornament of the same kind on each thigh, large emerald hraces on the arms (aboye the elbow), and many other jewels in different places....In one of the bracelets was the Cohi Noor, known to lie one of the largest diamonds in the world.* There were also some strings of тегу large pearls,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1816 - 678 pages
...princely.' His dress was most magnificent, having the appearance of ' armour of jewels,' and in one of his bracelets was ' the Cohi Noor, known to be '* one of the largest diamonds in the world.' His crown seemed a mass, or more properly a_maze of jewelery, for it was so ' com' plicated and so:dazzlmg,'... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...princely.' His dress was most magnificent, having the appearance of ' armour of jewels,' and in one of his bracelets was ' the Cohi Noor, known to be ' one of the largest diamonds in the world.' His crown seemed a mass, or more properly a maze of jewelery, for it was so ' com' plicated and so... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 594 pages
...diamonds, shaped like two flat fleurs de lis, an ornament of the same kind on each thigh, large enamelled bracelets on the arms, (above the elbow,) and many...different places. In one of the bracelets was the Cohenoor*, 'Mm n ,. „ . - _ * There is a print of it in Tavernier's travda. known to be one of the... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - Afghanistan - 1842 - 472 pages
...along one side of the hall. The Governorgeneral's Persian letter was now opened, and read with striking distinctness and elegance by the Moonshee Baushee...The crown was about nine inches high, not ornamented with jewels, as European crowns are, but, to appearance, entirely formed of those precious materials.... | |
 | Joseph Rupert Paxton - Gems - 1856 - 64 pages
...the elbow), and many other jewels in different places. In one of the bracelets was the Koh-i-noor, known to be one of the largest Diamonds in the world....also some strings of very large pearls, put on like cross-belts, but loose. The Crown was about nine inches high, not ornamented with jewels as European... | |
 | Adela Elizabeth Richards Orpen - Gems - 1890 - 296 pages
...and an ornament of the same kind on each thigh ; large emerald bracelets on the arms above the elbows and many other jewels in different places. In one of the bracelets was the Koh-i-nur, known to be one of the largest diamonds in the world. There were also some strings of very... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - English language - 1903 - 1088 pages
...— Tartrnitr, ET ii. 148 ; [ed. Bull, ii. 123]. [1842. — "In one of the bracelets was the Cuín Noor, known to be one of the largest diamonds in the world." — AVy>At/istont, Caubul, i. 68.] 1856.— *' He (Akbar) bears no weajron, save his dagger, hid Mountain... | |
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... an ornament of the same kind on each thigh, large emerald bracelets on the arms (above the elbow), and many other jewels in different places. In one of the bracelets was the Cohi Noor, known to be one of the largest diamonds in the world.* There were... 