I saw a spring out of a rocke forth rayle*, As cleare as christall gainst the sunnie beames; The bottome yeallow, like the golden grayle* That bright Pactolus washeth with his streames.
Our men forgot not to giue him certaine trifles in recompence of these presentes, and required of him the place whence the siluer oare and the Christall came.
M410 The place where christall groweth in very good quantitie ten dayes iourney from the riuer Belle.
The things that they esteeme most of all those which we gaue them, were bels, christall of Azure colour, and other toyes to hang at their eares or about their necke.
So fade the glasse, and end with it the showes That nigromancie did infuse the christall with.
But all this while what say you to the dames That shine like to the christall lampes of heaven?
The xxxij men likewyse of christall and other stones sett, the one sort in silver white, the other gilte, in a case gilded and lyned with green cotton.
A thousand Helicons the Muses send In a bright christall tide, to thee they send, Leaving those mines of nectar, their sweet fountaines, They force a lilly path through rosy mountaines.
Christall is muddy, O how ripe in show, Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!
On her haires were Gold, Christall the others eyes.
This is the Gentleman I told your Ladiship Had come along with me, but that his Mistresse Did hold his eyes, lockt in her Christalllookes Sil.
Then lay that glasse or christallin the bloud of a white henne, 3 Wednesdayes, or 3 Fridayes.
First, gett a broad square christall or Venice glasse, in length and breadth 3 inches.
Have I rid all this Circuite to levie the powers of your Iudgment, that I might not proove their strength too sodainly with so violent a charge; And do they fight it out in white bloud, and show me their hearts in the soft Christall of teares?
Come live with mee, and bee my love, And wee will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and christall brookes, With silken lines, and silver hookes.
Let others sigh, and grieve; one cunning sleight Shall freeze my Love toChristall in a night.
My faire Bellina shines like to an Angel; Has such a brightnesse in her Christall eyes That even the radiancy duls my sight.
Why should we move desperate and hopelesse armes And vainely spill that noble bloud that should Christall Rubes[71] and the Median fields, Not Tiber colour?
Swans adore The christall streame refined by her eyes: Where sweet Myrh-breathing Zephyre in the spring Gently distils his Nectar-dropping showers; Where Nightingales in Arden sit and sing Amongst those dainty dew-empearled flowers.
At the foure corners it was topt with foure round christall cages of Nightingales.
If I must die, O let me choose my death, Sucke out my soule with kisses cruell maide, In thy breasts christall bals enbalme my breath, Dole it all out in sighs when I am laid.
As full of coulers as a Christall glasse, repercust and beaten against with the beames of the sunne.
Then by this loue, and by these christall eyes, More bright then are the Lamps of Ioues high house, Let me in this (I feare) my last request.
I saw raisde vp on pillers of Iuorie, Wereof the bases were of richest golde, The chapters Alabaster, Christall frises, The double front of a triumphall arke.
Tis confest; but we Are like thinne christall glasses that will crack By touching one another: I coniure thee By all our past love, from this parting minute Nere to behold me more.
A great man is a great house with too much garret and his head full of nothing but lumber: if he be too round agen hees only fitt to be hung upp in a Christall glasse.
O Clariana, can There be a motive able to convert This pretious Christall temple, built for purity And goodnes adoration, to a faine For Idoll falshoods worship?
But oh remaine & let thy christall lippe Noe more of this same cherrye water sippe; What deadly beautye or what aerye nimphe Is heare belowe now seated in the limphe?
But oh, remaine, and let thy christall lippe No more of this same cherrye water sippe.
Footnote 157: It was long a "Vulgar Error" that certain 'christall glasses' flew into bits on poison being put into them.
The Christall glasse of christian reformation is a dull book with dull illustrations, which are of the nature of emblems, made ugly by party spirit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "christall" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
