smaragdine

• 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. —  The Morning News
• '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. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV
• Pyrotechnist. For the choicest piece in urban gardens, where Catharine-wheels on festival nights spurt sidereal spray, and rockets shot into gold-riddled skies fall back in prismatic showers, is less sapphirine, smaragdine, cuprine CHANTECLER Zounds THE PEACOCK --than, I venture to say, ladies, am I THE PHEASANT-HEN Oh, I understood that last word THE PEACOCK --when I unfurl the union of fan, jewel-case, and screen, upon which I offer to the self-same sunbeams that redden the reed all the joyous gems you now may contemplate CHANTECLER What a silly bill The PEACOCK has spread his tail. —  Chantecler Play in Four Acts
• The smaragdine is on of tho, 840 —  Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
• 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. —  Andersonville

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms