A few days after the incident of the opal ring, we were paying one of our frequent visits to the Lichtenberg Palace.
Appleford looking out upon the sea, which lay at their feet like a level opalglistening in the rays of the morning sun.
But he spoke of the opal being older even than the famous and commonly cited specimen at Vienna.
Dark was falling from a dull and humid sky, and the lamps were beginning to struggle for brightness in Piccadilly, when the opal of Carmalovitch was first put into my hand.
When he is ill, the opal fades; when he dies, it will die too.
I was married to him six years now at Naples, and he has always had theopal which he offers to you.
Of the opal which I saw so wofully crushed in the lodging-house in Boscobel Place, but one large fragment remained.
The story of the opal of Carmalovitch is almost told.
A fortnight passed, and I thought that I had got to the beginning and the end of the opal mystery, when one morning, the moment after I had entered my office, Michel told me that a lady wished to see me.
He made no sort of answer to it, but packing his opal carefully again, he rose abruptly and left the shop.
But when he spoke, I took the opal from him, and turned my strong glass upon it.
Then I went home through the fog and the humid night; but my way was lighted by a memory of the magnificent gem I had seen, and the hunger for the opal was already upon me.
The mist of fiery opal swirled up about the Three; hid them.
I heard him still chuckling gleefully over this vision as I passed along the opal wall with the green dwarf.
It was silvery, shaded faintly with a delicate blue and flushed lightly with a nacreous rose; but a rose that differed from that of the terraces of the Pool Chamber as the rose within the opal differs from that within the pearl.
Finding the packet safe, he put a couple of rings and the necklace with the opal in his waistcoat pocket.
I dare say you remember an opal you had from our house.
The lateral streams (of a muddy opal green) had cut beds 200 feet deep in the soft earth, and were very troublesome to cross, from the crumbling cliffs on either side, and their broad swampy channels.
Her hair was tawny with gold,--her eyes with purple were dark; Her cheeks paleopal burned with a red and restless spark.
Let the beautiful prophetess keep the agate, and take the opal too; for see, there is a charm on it also!
It is I who am in your debt; and I have brought my arrears, in the form of this opal ring.
I say, Dick," whispered Murray, as the Malay occupant of the boat realised the fact that he was being watched, and rolled his opal eyeballs round with a peculiar leer up at the two young officers.
And the motion was ceaseless, always glistening and flashing with light, and watched by the hundreds upon hundreds of glowing opal eyes which reflected the cone of flame still going on spiralling upwards and burning more fiercely than ever.
Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.
A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.
A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.
When possessing the favourite hue or "fire" of the wearer, such as the fire of the opal for those born in October, of the ruby for those born in July, etc.
The other six varieties of opal are much inferior in their strange mixture of these anomalies of light and colour.
He looked at the opal in his dagger, which for an instant shot forth rays, and then its light departed: it became a dull, dead stone.
The opal was said to make a man invisible, the jacinth to procure sleep, and the turquoise to appease quarrels between man and wife.
Hulda, "did the pedlar steal my mother's ring--that old opal ring which I told him I could not let him have?
Now the gnomes hate one another, and if it should be discovered by the brethren of this my enemy that he stole the opal ring, they will not fail to betray him.
A cold north wind, as he thus reclined, Of a sudden raged around, And a maiden fair, who was walking there Next morning an opal found.
He had silver buckles to his shoes, and a tiny opal breast-pin on the lappet of his coat, where the white flower goes at weddings.
For example, diamond in Arkansas, opal in Idaho, and agate in Oregon and Washington are mined by hobbyists under this "fee digging" arrangement.
Above the altar a white flame, pure as an opal burning in moonfire, rose for a moment, and in a moment was mysteriously gathered into the darkness.
Tom's eyes watched the stars peeping out one by one in the opal sky, his heart full of the happiness of the present and all the hope and promise of the future.
The sun had dropped behind the hill when the tired party reached the Red House, and a big moon was coming up serenely in the opal sky.
Background to pearl and ruby, to diamond and opal and sapphire and emerald.
The opal tints grew wider on the sea as it creamed in over the sands; the murmur of the baby waves grew louder.
It was so with Estelle; there was no trembling opalin her mental sky, no gradual melting of the mists of twilight.
I started and exclaimed, “some of the opal of which you found a small piece.
One day while I was absent in the hills he found in the neighborhood of the camp a small piece of opal which evidently had recently been broken from its bed in the rock as the fracture was new and bright.
Some time in the future my partner and I will go to Queensland and on the run of the old man, which is on the Barcoo, attempt to locate the original opal mine.
Vigor, who acted as a shepherd on the run, found the opal mine but kept the secret to himself.
At the depth of five feet we unearthed a small wooden box, we burst off the cover and in the pale moonlight saw five bands of opal more beautiful than anything we had ever dreamed of.
She could see it far up, glowing as red as her fire-opal in the light of the embers.
However, he made it up to her, as far as he could, in the end, for he brought back this Fire Opal himself and remained in England.
The points of green and opal fire were turned from Philip, and to his ears came the clink of chains, the movement of bodies, a subdued and menacing rumble from a score of throats.
Out of the surrounding darkness they stared at him without a movement or a sound, every head turned toward him, forty pairs of eyes upon him like green and opal fires.
