A frill ending in spangles of theemerald is no better in the battle of life than a frill ending in spangles of the ruby.
Night comes out of the east And rushes down on the sun; The emerald pools and the light pools Are darkened and done.
AT SEA Three are emerald pools in the sea, And wing-like flashes of light; The sea is bound with the heavens In a large delight.
He had a momentary experimental vision of a small yellow villa among the olives of the Florentine hills, of crumbling pink walls with emerald green lizards along the stones, of myrtles and remarkable lilies-of-the-valley.
Walls of jasper, streets of gold, gates of pearl, foundation stones of emerald and sapphire, and topaz and amethyst.
Emerald Pool, Sunset Lake, and Black Sand Pool are, with one possible exception, the most delicate, beautifully colored bowls of water to be found in the park.
I longed to be allowed time to inspect the few letters beneath which the emerald necklace had been concealed, but Pickering urged me on, saying that we had yet much to do before morning.
Yet the republic of Genoa had the same right to its ancient constitution as to the far-famed emerald dish, which I saw in the Hotel de Ville at Genoa, with a piece broken out of it.
The union of the littoral to the dominion of Sardinia is an advantage to both parties: but then what becomes of the principle which dictated the restitution of the emerald dish?
Adown the dark the firefly marks Its flight in gold and emerald sparks; And, loosened from his chain, The shaggy mastiff bounds and barks, And barks again.
THE WILD IRIS That day we wandered 'mid the hills,--so lone Clouds are not lonelier, the forest lay In emerald darkness round us.
At the end of it I fell asleep to dream that I rowed to Mapledurham in an emerald boat, and that a man with emerald eyes steered me abominably.
Let there be a great find at Kimberley or in the Burmese mines; let a fine emerald or a perfect turquoise be brought to Europe, and every dealer in the country knows its weight, its color, and its value before three days have passed.
Not so high as the towers of the Royal Palace of Toron, the green tile balcony outside Clea's window caught the breeze like the hem of anemerald woman passing the sea.
Her emeraldtrain whirled across the duller green of the carpet as she turned.
But instead (he saw her white dress flare and turn by him) an emerald iridescence caught in his eye, then rich mahogany flame.
He glanced up again, but now her emerald train was sweeping down the aisle the people had left open.
In the gardens beneath the windows of the Queen, the peacocks, those maharajas of the birds, were spreading the bronze and emerald of their tails.
The queen sent a special messenger to the harbour, and was soon informed that the fleet belonged to the Prince of the Emerald Isles, who begged leave to land in her kingdom, and to present his humble respects to her.
The prince, moved to tears at these words, drew the ring, which was an emerald of the purest water, from under his pillow.
The pyramids Of the tall cedar overarching frame Most solemn domes within, and far below, Like clouds suspended in anemerald sky, The ash and the acacia floating hang Tremulous and pale.
So do the little emerald tarns lie like saucers full of sky and trees in pockets of the Alps.
The heather on the hills might glow to crimson, and the bracken fade fromemerald to bronze, without touching a chord in that sturdy farmer's heart.
He felt of his pocket, and found the emerald ring there, instead of in its chamois case.
His body was enveloped in a complete suit of emerald silk, much soiled and faded, and girt with a sash of many colours, crimson predominating.
And then, in an instant, before he could recover his poise, even before he knew that the turned-in stone of the emerald ring had bitten deep into his palm, he was the axis of a vortex of humanity.
As for the emerald itself, in its original state, before cutting, it must have been worth the ransom of an emperor; much had certainly been sacrificed to fashion it in its present form.
At the same instant, with a snapping crackle a spurt of blue flame shot down from the zenith, and where it fell with a thunderclap a dazzling glare of emeraldlight shot up breasthigh.
Between Rutton's thumb and forefinger there blazed a great emerald set in a ring of red old gold.
Frowning, troubled, he drew forth the ring and slipped it upon his finger; rays of blinding emeraldlight coruscated from it, dazzling him.
Not the least of them is to look out on the Vyver lake and watch the swans placidly swimming around the emerald islet in the middle.
He knows the emeraldroute and all the semitones of sensuousness.
It's the Emerald Isle is the beautiful land: There's nothing too good for the Irish.
The plain stretched as far as the eye can see, and from where silver mist ended this emerald ocean of grass, a great ridge of snow-topped mountains poised against a fleckless blue sky.
It was probably glorious, this play of the free sea, wild with lights of emerald and white and amber.
As he lifted his cigarette from time to time his little finger was bended in dainty fashion, and there was a green flash when a huge emerald ring caught the light.
Not even the great emerald the Queen gave is better in its way than this.
Some of the rarest jewels are rated by comparison with the emeraldand aqua-marine tints shown by the pure waves of the ocean.
The shamrock pines away in exile beyond the borders of its own Emerald Isle.
A square, deep emerald hung from a platinum chain about her neck; and a hand, stripped of its thick white glove, showed an oppressive, prismatic glitter of diamonds.
But, although I do like you, I wouldn't kiss you for an emerald buckle.
He even mentally determined when he should go to the city, the jeweller's, for the square emerald and flowered pearls.
The diamonds on her narrow, delicate hand flashed, the emerald at her throat was superb.
The clouds vanished and left the nights emerald clear, the constellations glittered in frosty immensities of silence.
And behind the mountain were the People of Light, where Gor was only waiting for the attack to lead them out to the island's farther end and then on to a kindlier death in the emerald sea.
Instead of finishing on a sharply-cut horizon, that sea of emeraldgreen reached out and still out, and up!
Beyond a rocky, crystalline mass, where fragments had been heaped, the sound of the rushing air was lost; only the flashing emerald waves whispered softly on the shore beyond.
He let his eyes slowly take in the full splendor of that emerald sea, the shining land under a green-gold sun, the Mountain in white, crystal purity against a green-blue sky.
Now the blue diamond, with a square emerald on either side, and set in a band of platinum, was hers.
