"Water chestnut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... royal palace there was a woman, tall, lithe, with a skin of ivory and roses and eyes as brown as the husk of a water chestnut. On her bare ankles were gem-incrusted anklets, on her arms bracelets of hammered gold, round her neck a rope of pearls and emeralds and rubies and sapphires. And still ...
— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath |
