However, occasionally, when an unusually large number of culprits were run in, they had to be content with only one wooden anklet apiece.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Abyssinian girls swayed alluringly before the Persian Satrap in his purple litter; the air was filled with the crisp tinklings of tiny bells at wrist and anklet as the Kabaros drummed; and hard by, in the brake, brown nymphs, their little breasts pointing to the zenith, moved in languorous rhythms, droning hoarse sacrificial chaunts.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
MacIan glanced again at that silver anklet of sea-water and then looked beyond at the next promontory round which a deep sea was boiling and leaping.
"The Ball and The Cross"
G.K. Chesterton