The term chrysolite is also sometimes incorrectly used for the greenish-yellow chrysoberyl. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
The yellowish-green chrysoberyls (which jewelers sometimes call chrysolite) come both from Ceylon and from Brazil. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
They are like chrysolite, which is of a golden colour in the morning, very bright to look upon, but towards evening grows dull and loses its splendour. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord's Prayer] Reference
With chrysolite and held within a little hoard of gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Peridot (chrysolite), demantoid garnet ( "olivine"), jade. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
The single mention of chrysolite is much more impressive. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from] Reference
True olivine (the peridot and the chrysolite of the trade). From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
The chrysolite of the jeweler is usually of a yellower green. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
So much for stones whose density is less than that of chrysolite. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
Ruby and beryl and chrysolite, jade, sapphire, jasper and lazul. —. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Its hardness is not superior to that of olivine or massive chrysolite. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference
Some make תַּרְשִׁישׁ, the chrysolite or topaz of the moderns. From Wordnik.com. [Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost] Reference
Queensland supplies light-green chrysolite, and Arizona a yellowish-green variety. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
How "like one entire and perfect chrysolite" is the little piece called "Prospice"!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
In the fourth, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a beryl, set and enclosed in gold by their rows. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Certain stones, notably the peridot (or chrysolite) and the hessonite (or cinnamon stone), have an oily luster. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Peridot, and the brighter olivine or chrysolite, while of the same mineral species, do not seem to occur together. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
True olivine (the peridot or the chrysolite of the trade) is of a fine leaf-green or bottle-green shade in the peridot. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
I have truly lived only since I saw her, and I have the joy of feeling that I have beheld and known Nature's sole and perfect chrysolite. From Wordnik.com. [Master of His Fate] Reference
Entire affection hateth, 27. and perfect chrysolite, 156. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
Green as the stream in the glen, whose pure and chrysolite waters. From Wordnik.com. [Rides on Railways] Reference
From the depth of the green chrysolite looks up the eye of its gold. From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
All other men are fragments, He is the 'entire and perfect chrysolite.'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV] Reference
The New England sky was flooded for a moment with seas of chrysolite and opal. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
All your doings hath My Pen graven with open characters upon tablets of chrysolite. From Wordnik.com. [Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh] Reference
On its forehead was a chrysolite, and its breasts were smeared with myrrh and cinnamon. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Pomegranates] Reference
It was the one ring Barbara had worn as a girl, a chrysolite set plainly in a band of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Kelver, a Novel] Reference
His jewel was a green chrysolite, the reflection of which gives to the sky its blue-green colour. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
We can be satisfied with nothing less than an entire and perfect chrysolite; and we cannot taste our. From Wordnik.com. [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference
Sapphire, emerald, sardius, chrysolite, and pearl, must seem but dim mirrors of its glorious refulgence. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity] Reference
The first of the fourth row was a chrysolite, the next was an onyx, and then a beryl, which was the last of all. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquities of the Jews] Reference
The soft pellucid chrysolite of passive heavenly thought, was a merest arrangement, a common fact, meaning nothing to her. From Wordnik.com. [What's Mine's Mine — Complete] Reference
Helvellyn -- ye trees, that hang the shadows of your undying beauty over the "one perfect chrysolite" of blessed Windermere!. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
With the diamonds were intermingled every precious gem, the topaz, the jasper, the emerald, the chrysolite, and the sapphire. From Wordnik.com. [Imogen A Pastoral Romance] Reference
I did not expect the real Jerusalem to be the New Jerusalem; a city of charity and peace, any more than a city of chrysolite and pearl. From Wordnik.com. [The New Jerusalem] Reference
He was not satisfied with her hand, he was resolved to have her whole heart, -- 'one entire and perfect chrysolite;' and he has succeeded!. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
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