Crossword-Solution: NETSUKES 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The bronzes tinkled laughter fine; I heard a chuckle argentine Ring from the silver images; Even the ivory netsukes Uttered in every silent pause Dry, bony laughs from tiny jaws; The painted monkeys on the wall Waked up with chatter impudent; Pottery, porcelain, bronze, and all Broke out in ghostly merriment,-- Faint as rain pattering on dry leaves, Or cricket's chirp on summer eves.

Alice Belding had been taught to use her fine voice as it deserved and Cordelia's intonations could not have been more "soft, gentle, and low,--an excellent thing in woman." After awhile, the voices came nearer, and he heard Farnham say: "Come in here a moment, please, and see my new netsukes; I got them at a funny little shop in Ostend.

Krauss solemnly assured her niece that “it was the _only_ place in Rangoon for the real guaranteed netsukes,” of which she was making a collection.

Krauss would linger for fifteen minutes, sometimes for longer, talking over netsukes and Hong Kong with Ah Shee.

Krauss suddenly roused from her condition of happy contemplation, and said, as she opened her handkerchief: “My dear Sophy, I’ve got _such_ treasures—such finds; real, old netsukes, signed, and _so_ cheap! Do look at this delicious rabbit!” holding out a beautiful model.