He flashes out emeralds and rubies, amethystine flames and sapphirine colours, in. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
He dared a glance at the Power's face, and was caught again, a moth in sapphirine flame. From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Promise]
Dirk looked into Rolan's glowing eyes-and they were glowing, a sapphirine light brighter than the starshine. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
Tantris pranced and arched his neck, and one of his sapphirine eyes flashed a teasing look up at his Chosen. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
Before him, on the marble pave, lay the thin golden mask with the huge sapphirine gem set in it to represent the third eye. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
His sapphirine-blue eyes, the cleft, or dimple, in his strong chin, his thick sable hair, and muscular but symmetrical frame are additional attractions to me and, I regret to say, to innumerable other females. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters] Reference
There were moments amid the deepening darkness when it seemed virtually impossible to reach the summit; the stars now lighted a glowing sapphirine sky, but that only made the venerable town in all its majesty seem ever more unattainable. From Wordnik.com. [Vittorio, The Vampire]
She looked at the sky overhead, and saw that the sapphirine hue of the zenith in spring and early summer had been replaced by a metallic violet. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Native] Reference
Sometimes they appeared quite pellucid, at other times assuming various tints of blue, from a pale sapphirine to a deep violet colour; which were frequently mixed with. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16] Reference
They occur upon hard stones of many different kinds, as cornelian, onyx, rock-crystal, sapphirine, sardonyx, chalcedony, etc., and are executed for the most part with great skill and delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
It was a day of opal lights, a day set in a heaven of gold and turquoise and bathed in sapphirine airs; one of those rare and perfect days that happen only in desert countries, where Nature seems sometimes to repent of her own pitilessness and by the glory of her skies seems trying to compensate for the desolation of the lands that stretch beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional] Reference
They stood, hand in hand, looking down over the parapet upon the shimmering landscape which stretched forth beneath them into sapphirine space, and the Spirit of Life, who kept watch near the threshold, heard now and then a floating fragment of their talk blown backward like the stray swallows which the wind sometimes separates from their migratory tribe. From Wordnik.com. [The Fulness of Life] Reference
Blew splintered lights of sapphirine fire. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Under whose sapphirine walls. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
), otherwise known as a sapphirine gurnard. From Wordnik.com. [O'Reilly News] Reference
Robert, therefore, was thinking of his bride's face, the pure curves of her mouth, her sapphirine eyes, her pretty hands, her golden hair, the nose which others found fault with, which he, nevertheless, thought wholly delightful. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference
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