chrysoprase

• The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, 20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. [d] 21The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. —  Center for American Progress Action Fund
• Whenever you speak of water, treat it as fire--of fire, vice versa_, as water; and be sure to send them all shattering out of reach and discrimination of all sense; and look into a dictionary for some such word as "chrysoprase," which we find to come from gold, and a leek, and means a precious stone; it is capable of being shattered, together with "sunshine"--the reader will think the whole passage a "flash" of moonshine. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
• Suddenly over the tree-tops of a golden glade he descried a starry globe which shone like chrysoprase, and round and round it a little blue bird flew joyously. —  A Child's Book of Saints
• There lies a sweep of emerald grass turned to chrysoprase by the slant-beamed sun,--chrysoprase beautiful enough to have been the tenth foundation-stone of John's apocalyptic heaven. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
• The sea was light and mutinous How untransparent it is," he said, "lapis lazuli and turquoise and chrysoprase--no emeralds or aquamarines, or sapphires How are we to get in our purple without an amethyst I don't know That is what comes from not reading the Book of Revelations," she said They saw big, dissolving, poisonous jellyfish in the sea, mysteriously without lines--and tidy slabs of jellyfish on the beach. —  Balloons

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