Ordinarily, the jasper is a stone of various wavy colors, somewhat transparent: in Re 21: 11 it represents watery crystalline brightness. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
But i don't live in jasper county so i wont get paid. From Wordnik.com. [Earn $5 a Doe in Illinois] Reference
Were laid in jasper-stone as clear as glass. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
The stone which we name "jasper" does not accord with this description. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The word 'jasper' is derived from the Semitic languages; and from the confused description of Theophrastus. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
A lot of corporatist democrats (such as jasper’s post above) never realized that the romney model is hated by the left. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » How Close Were We, Really?] Reference
How wonderfully beautiful were its walls of jasper. From Wordnik.com. [The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries] Reference
In the second a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
In the second, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Among these pebbles I found several arrowheads of jasper. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
What bliss! the fairy on the jasper terrace will come down!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Also beautiful jasper and fossils such as ammonites and belemnites. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Quarries of fine marble and jasper exist in the district of Arenas. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
And he that sat was to the sight like the jasper and the sardine stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
On the two 44-foot sides this was of the celebrated Sioux Falls red jasper. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
English jasper was all kinds of a swell, with money enough to burn a wet dog. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
I was now in a superb apartment, where everything was marble, jasper, or rich gilding. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The material is pure white marble, inlaid with jasper, agate and other precious stones. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The ruder forms not being of jasper and allied minerals, but are almost exclusively of argillite. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The first foundation was jasper: the second, sapphire: the third; a chalcedony: the fourth, an emerald. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
And the building of the wall thereof was of jasper stone: but the city itself pure gold like to clear glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
At last lie reached the portico, which was raised twenty steps, and adorned with twelve columns of clear jasper. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The Woman's Club of Pipestone, Minn., showed specimens of pipestone and jasper belonging to group 116, class 682. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
Find in the Glossary the meaning of: cord; nimble; moor; fallow; swerve; jasper; flags; rushes; basswood; flaunting. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
As soon as we landed we perceived that the ground was strewn with flaked chips of chalcedony, jasper, and similar stones. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
The most striking feature of the interior is the forest of porphyry, jasper, and marble pillars supporting open Moorish arches. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
They consist chiefly of varieties of marble and alabaster, agates of different shades, chalcedony, jasper, lapis lazuli, and red porphyry. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Neutron-activation analysis of 10 flintlike pieces of jasper, used to start fires, reveal trace elements present only in jasper from western Greenland and Iceland. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Mariners] Reference
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