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Definition of Caskets
1. casket [v] - See also: casket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caskets
Literary usage of Caskets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1834)
"We shall find, on investigation, that this remark applies in an eminent degree
to those caskets of wood and ivory, of which, owing to the handsome bequest ..."
2. The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages by Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust (1902)
"The fashion continued for several hundred years, and side by side with these
secular caskets we have others decorated with scenes from Old Testament history ..."
3. Women and the Trades,Pittsburgh,1907-1908 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1909)
"CHAPTER XVII caskets, CORK, PAINT, SOAP, TRUNKS caskets THE two casket ...
Another girl is busied assembling the long metal bars for caskets, adjusting the ..."
4. Ivories by Alfred Maskell (1905)
"A curious example of the use to which such caskets as those we have been ...
Italian caskets of bone of the fifteenth century, which were generally marriage ..."
5. The Connoisseur by George Colman, Bonnell Thornton (1905)
"The two caskets, one of them shown on the left of the illustration embossed with
numerous figures and Apollo, weigh 136^ oz., and measure I3i ins. in length ..."
6. Yule-tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular by Benjamin Thorpe (1853)
"THE TWO caskets. From South Smaland. THERE was once a crone, who was both old
and wicked, which, as we all know, is far from impossible. ..."
7. A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John by Charles Dexter Cleveland (1860)
"THE THREE caskets. Portia, a beautiful and accomplished heiress, is sought in
marriage by a large number of suitors, whose fate is to be determined by the ..."
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