King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 395
someill-boding dream. Perhaps, too, the inconvenience of the projectingcogs perpetually making itself felt between the fingers served fora mild variety of penance, and converted the ornament into aningenious engine for gently mortifying the flesh, an all-sufficientrecommendation with the pious of… … STONE KINGS. Kings carved entirely in the solid stone appear to have been muchin fashion with the Eomans under the Lower Empire, just as similar(though smaller) ornaments in carnelian are amongst their femaledescendants at the present day. They are now worn as a kind ofamulet against sickness, from…
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