turquoise

• The mystery of years was about to be explained Well, do you remember a conversation you had with Joyce about it afterward, in which you called the turquoise the 'friendship stone,' because it was true blue? —  The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
• Thou art even as a turquoise, a patch of radiant summer sky, eyes of sapphire, lips Archaic, very archaic," she interrupted Disillusioned in ten seconds!" —  Hearts and Masks
• The Great God hath given my head unto me and he who hath bound on me my head is the Mighty One with the eyes of turquoise, that is to say, Ari-en-ab-f (_i.e._, He who doeth as he pleaseth O Usert, [Footnote: The name of a lake in the third section of Sekhet-Aaru.] —  Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
• It is crowned with its dome, in which the raw blue of the turquoise is the chief color, and which looks like a Persian cap; and on its only minaret, which has now lost its head, there glitter the enamelled arabesques which have retained their ancient purity We visited the central hall beneath the cupola. —  The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
• I do rather opine that the evil spirit doth take up his abode therein, transforming himself into an angel of light, to the end that we put our trust not in God, but in the precious stone; and thus, perhaps, doth he deceive our spirits by the turquoise: for the turquoise is of two sorts: those which keep their colour, and those which lose it. —  Prince Zaleski

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