His step-father still wore, after the fashion of the Empire, his watch in the fob of his trousers, from which there depended over his abdomen a heavy gold chain, ending in a bunch of heterogeneous ornaments, seals, and a watch-key with a round top and flat sides, on which was a landscape in mosaic. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A watch-key pressed firmly on the point stung by a scorpion extracts the poison, and a mixture of fat or oil and ipecacuanha relieves the pain. ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘Which you will again make a mess of,’ said the man who lay on the sofa playing with his watch-key. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Here the doctor winked at her again, but she returned his gaze so firmly and wrathfully that he soon lowered it and went on playing with his watch-key. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Another, a tall man, lies on a sofa beside a table on which are empty bottles, and plays with his watch-key. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I went to my office, and sat there all day, stupid, only twirling my watch-key, and repeating to myself, -- 'A gold dollar! ❋ Various (N/A)
Over and over the father appeals to the village physician to know what the chances may be, -- to which that old gentleman, fumbling his watch-key, and looking grave, makes very doubtful response. ❋ Various (N/A)
Crawford declared this was the only portrait of Washington which literally represented his costume; having recently examined the uniform, sword, etc., he was enabled to identify the strands of the epaulette, the number of buttons, and even the peculiar seal and watch-key. ❋ Various (N/A)
The long and the short of it is, perhaps, that music, being a universal art, like a universal watch-key, will set going the complicated cogs and springs of every soul and yet not regulate or assure its rhythm. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
One end is conical, and there is a small hole at the apex which seems to contain a steel point; the other end is flat, but has in the centre a small square projection such as might fit a watch-key. ❋ Unknown (1902)
Attached to it were a watch-key and a very small steel key. ❋ Geraldine Mockler (1900)
It is said that Switzerland is one of the happy hunting-grounds of the watch-key collector, but there are many curio shops, both on the Continent and in this country, where fancy keys can be bought still at reasonable prices. ❋ Unknown (1900)
I had a nice gold watch-key from Hosanna, a knife from Steele, a letter-case from Phebe, and a pretty pencil-case from Bertha. ❋ Unknown (1899)
To my wife I gave my gold watch-key, which fortunately fits her watch; to Hosanna, a mere trifle, a seal ring I wore; to Bertha, my gold chain; and to Sarah Blatchford, the watch which generally hung from it. ❋ Unknown (1899)
I went in, ostensibly to purchase a watch-key, really to engage in negotiations of a more serious and complicated nature. ❋ Sarah P. McLean Greene (1895)
When he wanted to wind up his watch, he found that he had left his watch-key at home. ❋ August Strindberg (1880)
I hastily pressed all the valuables that I had with me -- four postage-stamps and an unserviceable watch-key -- into her hand, and entreated her to give me an interview with Miss SMITH. ❋ Various (1876)
Copied line of route, observations from Kabuire to Casembe's, the second visit, and on to Lake Bangweolo; then the experiment of weight on watch-key at Nyangwe and Lusize. ❋ Ed (1874)
She selected the smallest key on the bunch, that contained a dozen, and attempted to fit it in the small opening, but it was too large; then she tried her watch-key, but without success, and a look of chagrin crossed her sad, tear-stained face. ❋ Unknown (1872)
