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“Les deux tombeaux sont couleur de jaspre sur le vermeil, comme une brique (de jaspe rouge).”
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“Tout à coup, à cóté de cette figure de jaspe, il vit un marchand qui faisait hommage à la statue d'un éventail de taffetas blanc du pays de _Tsin_.”
“Une fontaine artificielle et jaillissante, dont le bassin est d'un prétieux marbre verd qui m'a paru serpentin ou jaspe, s'élevoit directement au milieu, sous le dôme ....”
“Celui qui etait assis avait l’aspect d’une pierre de jaspe et de sardone, et le trone etait environne d’un arc-en-ciel qui avait l’aspect de l’emeraude.”
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t1c1 See jaspé: A fabric with an arrangement of fine stripes formed by light, medium, and dark shades of a given color. Aug 18, 2011
knitandpurl "I played on boards whose squares changed in the course of a single game. They were made of squares of darker and lighter sand sprinkled on the board. In the course of the game the wind would blow the sand about, into long patches run through with different colours, until the board became a whirl of darker and lighter twists, reminiscent of the jaspé bindings of books come to life in dreams; and the pieces would pick their way through them, before crumbling and blending in with the sand of the squares."
- The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland, p 128 of the Dalkey Archive paperback Jun 13, 2011
slumry Nice! Jul 10, 2007
fbharjo jasper - as an adjective Jul 8, 2007