The garnet is found in Bohemia, Ceylon, and other countries; but the chief mart formerly being Sirian, the capital of Pegu, the best are often denominated Sirian garnets.
The Sirian garnet is of a violet colour, which, in some rare specimens, makes it compete with the amethyst, from which it is to be discriminated by the disadvantage of losing its brilliancy, and acquiring an orange tint by candlelight.
And oh, why didn't I have regular gold hair like yours instead of this garnet mane?
June was left alone, and ere long she noticed Irene seated near the young lady in the garnet silk, with Max Brunswick leaning over her and speaking in a low voice.
On the departure of Sir Garnet Wolseley, on the 4th of March, Colonel Maxwell, of the 1st West India Regiment, administered the government of the Gold Coast.
Let us step inside and see what accommodation he has to offer, as you know how particular Sir Garnet is.
He is riding in advance of the General, so as to make arrangements for the accommodation of Sir Garnet and his whole staff, who will be staying in this dorp for some considerable time.
Sir Garnet Wolseley was on his way up country, so were strong reinforcements, and the atmosphere was thick with shaves as to what was going to happen.
On the slopes nearer, the leafless boughs, massed together, had purplish-garnet depths of color wherever the sunshine struck aslant, and showed richly against the faintly tinted horizon.
The sky, seen through the interlacing black boughs above his head, was all amber and crimson, save for a wide space of pure and pallid green, against which the purplish-garnet wintry mountains darkly gloomed.
When Adrienne was within the little salon hung with garnet silk draperies, in which the candelabras and sconces were lighted, she sank into an armchair, entirely exhausted and overwhelmed by the fearful resistance she had made to her feelings.
As he passed along, he saw Guy de Lissac sitting on a chair upholstered in garnet satin, his right hand resting on the gilded back and chatting with Adrienne who was fanning herself leisurely.
Other mineral products are graphite, garnet used as an abrasive, pyrite and zinc ore.
The felspar breaks up into a mosaic in which albite, epidote or zoisite, quartz and garnet may often be identified.
Prepared from the official documents, by permission of Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley, K.
Roger was turned over to a young man who wore a garnet ring and who was at the head of the Engineering Investments Department.
Then the man of the garnet ring proposed that a company be organized for half a million dollars and that his company undertake to sell the stock.
Thus, although the Garnet Hill provides an instance of the Pirate as Thief, it is perhaps more interesting as an instance of the Pirate as Spy.
February, 1917, a U-boat suddenly appeared alongside the Russian sailing vessel Garnet Hill and ordered the crew to abandon the ship at once.
Bull Garnet stood there, and strove to rush on, strove with every muscle, but every nerve strove against it.
Robert Garnet says that they stay at home, and keep their Christmas domestically, and I need not run for fear of them, at least till the end of April.
Bull Garnet hated those two trees, with terror added to hatred.
But, before he could get him out of the way—for Rufus lingered strangely—Pearl Garnet came into the little hall, with her eyes distended fearfully.
For Mr. Garnet still retained his stewardship among them, though longing to be quit of it, and discharging his duties silently, and not with his old pronouncement, because his health was weaker.
Bull Garnet was touched by the old manʼs tone—the helplessness, the misery.
Bull Garnet bent his large eyes upon him, and the Major could not answer them.
When Bull Garnet read this letter—handed to him, with three great bows of the Chinese pattern, by the pompous Major Blazeater—his face flushed to a deep amethyst tinge, which subsided to the colour of cork.
Hogstaff, leave the room this moment,” shouted Sir Cradock, wrathfully; and Job hobbled away to brag how he had pulled Muster Garnet down a peg.
Mr. Garnetdid not burn this letter, but twice read it through very carefully, and then stowed it away securely.
Mr. Garnet turned pale as a winding–sheet, and could not speak for a moment.
He had a good deal of the soldier in his appearance and demeanour; and George learned from Ernest Baylen that he had served in India, and under Lord Napier and Sir Garnet Wolseley.
Sir Garnet Wolseley has already arrived from England, and may take the command over any day.
He told them of the relief of Lucknow, and how he had stood by the terrible Well of Cawnpore; how he had accompanied Sir Garnet Wolseley in his march to Coomassie; and how he had witnessed the final discomfiture of King Theodore.
But read Crummell's chapter upon Henry Highland Garnet and DuBois's chapter upon Crummell, and you will see how kindred spirits appreciate each other's worth and value.
They were fired upon; but Henry Highland Garnet fired a return shot, at which they were allowed to depart in peace.
Pink sand* [I have seen the same garnet sand covering the bottom of the Himalayan torrents, where it is the produce of disintegrated gneiss, and whence it is transported to the Ganges.
The arranging of these sand-bands by the water must be due to the different specific gravities of the garnet and quartz; the former being lighter, is lifted by the current on to the surface of the quartz, and left there when the waters retire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garnet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abrasive; alabaster; asphalt; diamond; emerald; file; jade; mineral; ruby; sapphire; stone; wax
