Small, delicate jewel

Usage examples of bijou.

It was in Hilltop Road that Bijou Frank visited his mother, on those terrible Saturday afternoons when he kept Freddy company.

Bijou Frank was a good friend to his mother, and he hoped that his mother was as good a friend to Bijou, who seemed, and was, devoted.

This was the signal that the visit was about to be concluded, that he, Julius, was soon to usher out again with Bijou on his arm.

Both Julius and his father knew that when Bijou Frank took her leave Mrs Herz would revert to her former self, would remove her necklace and her earrings, and as like as not change into a dressing-gown.

This distressed Mrs Herz, perhaps more than it distressed Bijou Frank, as his mother, always hypersensitive, observed.

Then he walked to the bus stop, remembering, in spite of himself, Bijou Frank and his first experience of servitude.

He glozed the matter thus: he had persuaded the owner it was better to take a good tenant at a moderate loss, than to let the Bijou be uninhabited during the present rainy season.

On her return she found Christopher telling his uncle all about the Bijou, and how he had taken it for a hundred and thirty pounds a year and a hundred pounds premium, and Uncle Philip staring fearfully.

By dinner-time she could have told you how many shelves there were in every cupboard, and knew the Bijou by heart in a way that Christopher never knew it.

It soon transpired that medical advice was to be had, gratis, at the Bijou, from eight till ten: and there was generally a good attendance.

To their shrill cluttering was added the yelps of Bijou and the belated screams of Lalla.

Joshua reached into the pocket of his coat with two fingers and drew out the bijou Elizabeth had worn on a chain around her neck for so many weeks.

They stayed at the Bijou, a whole crowd of them, and Connie never let them out of her sight until they closed their bedroom doors for the night.

Afterward, when they slowly made their way to the car, and drove home to the Bijou again, Connie was still silent.

She contended that the beautiful lawn at the Bijou was productive of strength for David, rest for Carol, amusement for Julia, and literary material for her.