The fourth, a masculine ruby balas (peach-coloured) amethystizing, its flame and lustre ending in violet or purple like an amethyst.
On the medical finger of his right hand he had a ring made spire-wise, wherein was set a perfectBalas ruby, a pointed diamond, and a Physon emerald, of an inestimable value.
If Balas has gone sane, he thought, then perhaps I have gone mad.
I know you didn't mean for him to disappear like that," Balas said, almost kindly.
I'm afraid that I don't agree," Balaswent on with that frightening softness.
I know where we are--Balas and I are locked inside the ship alone together, and only one of us is coming out alive.
He felt very tired and empty, the way he'd felt after Schiemann and Balas had died, as if nothing mattered any more.
He told himself that he meant only to stun Balas, but he was conscious all the time that, if Balas were merely stunned, the problem would be merely postponed.
Balas pursued him through the desolate corridors of the Valkyrie, Mattern's laughter echoing crazily in the emptiness.
They stood by Alexander Balas when all deserted him.
The usurper Alexander Balas endeavoured to confirm his power by a marriage with Cleopatra, daughter of Ptolemy Philometor: but he soon evinced himself more unworthy even than his predecessor of wielding the sceptre.
But in the battle in which Balas was overthrown, the Egyptian king also received his death wound.
He supported Alexander Balasagainst Demetrius, and even gave him his daughter Cleopatra.
Demetrius, upon hearing of this, became still more extravagant in his offers; and in an epistle which has been preserved by Josephus, he endeavoured to outdo Balas in the extravagance of his promises.
Alexander Balaswas not behind his rival in his offers.
Balas nga igdudúgang sa abúnu, Sand to be added to the filler.
Mikandus siyag balas sa karumáta, He shoveled sand out of the cart.
Siyay misuun ug balassa ímung sapátus, He filled your shoes with sand.
Ang balas sa dágat kislan úsà imása sa simintu, The sand from the sea has to be washed first before one makes the cement mixture.
Kamiy milamúgay (naglamúgay) sa balas ug simintu, We mixed the sand and cement thoroughly.
Karumatáhan ta kag balas tulu ka biráda, I will deliver you three carromata-loads of sand.
Balukbúkan tag balas ang simintu kay húmuk da, Let’s add sand to the cement because it’s too watery.
Sabwági ug balas ang dáub kay misiláub, Throw sand on the fire because it flared up.
Dapláki ug balas ang lungag sa yútà, Dump sand into the hole in the ground.
But when the latter drew back from his promise to withdraw the garrison from Acra, he went over to the side of Trypho, who had set up a son of Alexander Balas (Antiochus) as a rival.
Next Alexander Balas conferred on him the title of "high priest of the nation and friend of the king;" in gratitude for which Jonathan went over to his side (152).
The victorious Balas heaped honours upon Jonathan, who maintained his fidelity, and fought successfully in his interests when in I47 Demetrius II.
In 153 Alexander Balas withdrew Jonathan from his allegiance to Demetrius by the offer of the high-priesthood.
After the death of Balas he laid siege to the Akra; and "the apostates, who hated their own nation," appealed to Demetrius.
The Duchess of Bretagne had among other brooches one with a white griffin, a balas ruby on its shoulder, six sapphires around it, and then six balasses, and twelve groups of pearls with diamonds.
Imagine the unpleasant physical sensation of a bishop in 1404, who was obliged to wear a golden mitre of which the ground was set with large pearls, bordered with balas rubies, and sapphires, and trimmed with indefinite extra pearls!
This latter carved a portrait of Ludovico il Moro on a red balas ruby, in intaglio.
In a battle in the year 153, Demetrius was slain; and Balas became king.
The author of the Masálak al Absár says the finest Balasever seen in the Arab countries was one presented to Malek 'Adil Ketboga, at Damascus; it was of a triangular form and weighed 50 drachms.
Thus he acts in order to keep the Balas at a high value; for if he were to allow everybody to dig, they would extract so many that the world would be glutted with them, and they would cease to bear any value.
From the form Balakhsh the Balas Ruby got its name.
NOTE 1] It is in this province that those fine and valuable gems the Balas Rubies are found.
The Balais or Balas Ruby is, like the Spinel, a kind inferior to the real Ruby of Ava.
It will be seen from this that some of these qualities or excellences occur both as indriyas and bodhyaṅgas, while balas are throughout identical with indriyas.
To outbid his rival the impostor Alexander Balas conferred upon Jonathan the coveted honor of the high priesthood, thus making him both the civil and religious head of the Jewish state.
Flames issue from the left shoulder, an exceptional peculiarity in the Sassanian series, but one which is found also among the Indo-Scythian kings with whom Balas was so closely connected.
The new arrangement had not been long completed whenBalas died (A.
Balas was dead and his own claim to the succession undisputed.
While matters were in this state, and the consent of Balas to the terms agreed upon had not yet been positively signified, an important revolution took place at the court of Persia.
Balas nominated no successor upon his death-bed, thus giving in his last moments an additional proof of that moderation and love of peace which had characterized his reign.
The death of Zareh and the flight of Kobad left Balas at liberty to resume the work which their rebellions had interrupted--the complete pacification of Armenia.
Coins, which possess several points of interest, are assigned to Balas by the best authorities.
With the loans obtained from his allies, and by means of extortion, Balas was enabled to gather a large army of mercenary soldiers together, with which to give battle to the Syrian monarch.
In some respects more fortunate than many of his successors in the art of claiming royal kinship, Alexander Balas has obtained the sanction of several Jewish and Roman historians to the legality of his pretensions.
Alexander Balas was an impostor of low origin set up by Heracleides as a son of Antiochus Epiphanes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
