In the pause the drawing-room door opened, and a woman with blazing dark eyes and snow-white hair, wearing a white tea-gown and a necklace of very fine Egyptian scarabs, came in, with an intense, self-possessed and inquiring look.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
Well, I doctored him through a bad attack of typhoid, but as he had spent every farthing he owned on scarabs or something of the sort, made him no charge.
"Queen Sheba's Ring"
H. Rider Haggard
Well, Adams-for Adams you must be-I am really delighted to see you, especially as you never answered some questions in my last letter as to where you got those First Dynasty scarabs, of which the genuineness, I may tell you, has been disputed by certain envious beasts.
"Queen Sheba's Ring"
H. Rider Haggard