The yellow brooch was definite, cold, stony eyes hung a little above it, over those a high white forehead-otherwise merely a black shadow putting out the fire.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
In any case, one may observe the yellow brooch agitated now and ill at ease.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
She recalls the petty poverty of the life that lies behind her, the endless, monotonous misery of the future in galoches and water-proof that lies before her, the hotel-bill that is not paid, the golden brooch she has been obliged to sell to buy two pair of new gloves,-everything, in short, that is hopeless and comfortless in her life.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin