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The opal's fire flashed cold beneath the Irish Sea.

The wrecking of the 'Tayleur' Gill Hoffs 2011

Stormy translucent greys tipped with jade and frost, built layer upon layer to catch the subtle nuances of color, brilliant sea foam greens and golds layered on top of gold leaf a la 'pictura translucida' to catch the opal's fire that they contained, a thin, so thin cut of a line of something more vivid then burnt orange for the rings of her eyes.

madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2004

There is the topmost purity of white, blended with the delicate, perpetual verdure of hope, and down in the opal's centre lies the deep crimson of love.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

"Help me, help me!" she gasped; as Elfgiva swooped upon both of them, her streaming hair taking on a resemblance to bristling fur, her eyes showing more of opal's fire than of heaven's blue.

The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893

Ever varying like the opal's hue: and often have I deemed

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840

Ordered spheres of silica help produce opal's internal colors by interfering and diffracting light as it passes through the stone.

Discover Our Town 2008

" She nodded at my hand, and my fingers closed over the opal's curve in reflex.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997