Adjective : an amethyst brooch. From Dictionary.com.
The soft moss glimmered ... the amethystine cross gleamed. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
The last faint amethystine haze on the mountains was deepening. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
From these bottomless abysses arose a luminous amethystine vapor. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
His amethystine robe was rumpled and stained, his eyes but half-focused. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Invincible]
Here it lies, basking at our feet, the warm amethystine sea of the South. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
He flashes out emeralds and rubies, amethystine flames and sapphirine colours, in. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
There were no deep, glowing coals, no amethystine opalescence, fading into gold and violet. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
Framed in it was the amethystine burning of the great ring that girdled the encircling cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Now we were rising upon a steep slope; now the amethystine, gleaming ring was almost overheard. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Our faces were turned toward the western sky, where the sun was sinking behind the amethystine hills. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
She wondered why she had been such a fool as to wear that gown of purplish amethystine tulle tonight. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Next morning he was astonished to find his alcohol of a beautiful amethystine color, and the cork out. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference
Anon everything was golden and amethystine, like a foreshadowing of the splendor of the New Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence] Reference
She lets her tasselled silken cloak slip down, and only her purple ring still glows, her vinous, her amethystine ring. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
The Lord of Swords stepped to the side of the sovereign and held out a scabbard, from which Thagdal drew an amethystine sword. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
From the zinc mines of Joplin in Missouri enormous crystals of golden-yellow and amethystine colours have been recently obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
From it dropped curtains, shimmering, nebulous as the marching folds of the aurora; they poured, cascaded, from the amethystine band. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Blue above the August haze was a glimpse of a glacier, and farther back, peaks rose tier upon tier in the vague, amethystine distance. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Round the amethystine cross Evalie began to dance, circling it slowly to the rippling, the rustling and the rushing music of the drums. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
The faithful ghosts of the dogs of fallen hunters were following their departed masters in the amethystine mists of the canyons about them. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Maiden] Reference
Before them lay the sea, calm in a sheen of blue, gathering faint amethystine vapors, that the sunset would light up in a miracle of bronze and purple and rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The distant woodland swims in an amethystine haze. From Wordnik.com. [Back Home] Reference
The shores were purple and amethystine in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901] Reference
The amethystine Sabine Hills and the immense Campagna encircle the. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference
Alabanda in Caria; it is a garnet of a violet or amethystine tint. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
Skiddaw and Helvellyn began to uplift themselves in amethystine ridges. From Wordnik.com. [Patsy] Reference
Ned pointed at the beautiful amethystine mountains, but Chris shook his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Peril Finders] Reference
Far out dusky amethystine islets clustered like gems on the shining breast of the bay. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901] Reference
She sat with her gaze upon the fair spring woods and the amethystine hills rising to blue skies. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
Her magnificent wealth of burnished auburn hair flows back in amethystine waves from her sun-kissed brow. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906] Reference
Everywhere there will be a wonderful width of amethystine hills and mystical depths of seven-chorded light. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
Clear-cut in the morning light, these exquisite mountains evaporate, towards sunset, in an amethystine haze. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
The distant ranges had assumed a rosy amethystine tint, like nothing earthly -- like the mountains of a dream, perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
Even the snow and the grinding, cascading glaciers became divinely tender and fine in this celestial amethystine light. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
The little rise of ground between this and the Hudson shut out the river; but it could not shut out the amethystine splendour. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference
A look of anxiety once appeared, but the same moment it vanished, and he held out in his hand the little drop of amethystine splendour. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Gibbie] Reference
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