If the film you are watching is in color and features quirky kids striving to spell the word "smaragdine," you put the wrong DVD in your Netflix queue. From Wordnik.com. [The Morning News] Reference
On a transverse axis, vision reached from glittering blue across the Sea of Marmora to a mast-crowded Golden Horn and the rich suburbs and smaragdine heights beyond. From Wordnik.com. [There Will Be Time]
Son of the Sultan craved leave to return to his own motherland, when his father-in-law gave him an hundred clusters of the diamantine and smaragdine grapes, after which he farewelled the. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
I turned my head again to the sea, and looking down into its smaragdine depths, let go of the victualistic store which I had been industriously accumulating ever since I had come through the lines. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference
'I have been, continued he, many years in search of the Philosopher's Stone, and long master of the smaragdine-table of Hermes Trismegistus; the green and red dragons of Raymond Lully have also been obedient to me, and the illustrious sages themselves deign to visit me; yet is it but since I had the honour to be known to your ladyship, that I have been so fortunate as to obtain the grand secret of projection. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
The smaragdine is on of tho, 840. From Wordnik.com. [Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins] Reference
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