Unutterable relief instantly filled them as they fell upon the mystic jewel which sparkled in the centre of my stolen
headpiece. She did not speak.
When Sancho heard him call the basin a
headpiece he was unable to restrain his laughter, but remembering his master's wrath he checked himself in the midst of it.
So stern was the energy of his aspect, that the whole man, visage, frame, and soul, seemed wrought of iron, gifted with life and thought, yet all of one substance with his
headpiece and breastplate.
Aylward, with a fishing lass on either arm, was vowing constancy alternately to her on the right and her on the left, while big John towered in the rear with a little chubby maiden enthroned upon his great shoulder, her soft white arm curled round his shining
headpiece. So the throng moved on, until at the very gate it was brought to a stand by a wondrously fat man, who came darting forth from the town with rage in every feature of his rubicund face.
'I am afraid I am but a shallow, surface kind of fellow, Jack, and that my
headpiece is none of the best.
He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable type of workman, and with a
headpiece of his own.
The plumed
headpiece broke about the point of the weapon, struck at once by the spear and by the strong hand of Ajax, so that the bloody brain came oozing out through the crest-socket.
I heard of 'em from a lady with as good a
headpiece as the best, and she knows this young lady, and I know this young lady, and we all three know that it's Money she makes a stand for--money, money, money--and that you and your affections and hearts are a Lie, sir!'
And God helps us with our
headpieces and our hands as well as with our souls; and if a man does bits o' jobs out o' working hours-- builds a oven for 's wife to save her from going to the bakehouse, or scrats at his bit o' garden and makes two potatoes grow istead o' one, he's doin' more good, and he's just as near to God, as if he was running after some preacher and a-praying and a-groaning."
Dion, 51, paired her look with an extravagant
headpiece.
A fascinator is a
headpiece that is usually worn in the place of a hat.