jade

• He is searching you say for a piece of jade, which is in your possession. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
• Or jade - I pictured my analogical companion's sculptural triumph in thousand-year-old jade, lit from within. —  Wax Banks
• For example, there is a piece of polished jade which is called "the stone of famine," because it is supposed capable of causing either dearth or abundance, but is oftener used by the sorcerer to create, or at least to threaten, dearth, in order thereby to extort presents from his alarmed fellow tribesmen. —  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
• Then the chatelaine, whose vital spirits had been excited by the vengeance which had refreshed them, went into the room where the jade was amusing herself, and by chance found her with her hand where she, the chatelaine, often had her eye--like the merchants have on their most precious articles, in order to see that they were not stolen. —  Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
• Remember, Mr. Forrest will always be your father and your mother.... And all my jade is yours She closed her eyes in token that the brief audience was over Again she was vexed by the tickling cough that threatened to grow more pronounced I am ready, Dick," she said faintly, still with closed eyes. —  The Little Lady of the Big House

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