Which all opalsis implacable hoodoos, an' it'll likely conjure up your rooin.
And she looked down through the opals into her heart and over at her husband and smiled.
In her nervousness at the parried attack, she left her seat and paced the room, the opals glittering on her waist.
And yet," I continued, "there cannot be three larger opals in Europe; do you know the stone at Vienna?
As the days went by I suffered that stone hunger which a student of opals alone can know.
Yet I would have overlooked the theft of the opals if they had not substituted two of the Queen's regimental buttons for the eyes of the god.
Her breath came quickly and the black opals had been kindled in her eyes.
Some of the finest opals ever seen are in this necklace; they were taken from the crown of an Indian price and bequeathed to one of our ancestors.
I prefer diamonds, but these opals are magnificent.
She opened it, and cried out with admiration; there lay the most exquisite ring she had ever seen, of pure pale gold, delicately and elaborately chased, and set with three gleaming opals of rare beauty.
One of the most beautiful and costly jewels was an entire suite of opals intermixed with small diamonds.
Another blaze of magnificence was the loud-voiced Bessimer woman, as the Goddess Juno, with peacock tails and opals all over her; she had Ronnie Storre to represent Green-eyed Jealousy.
Do you know that opals bring bad luck to those who come beneath the spell of their influence?
Finally they emerged, Mrs. Janney with the opals which after some straining she clasped round her neck, while Sam closed the door.
After they were stored in their shelves and the opals back in their box she could not resist a look at her emeralds, of all her material possessions the dearest.
Unholy visions curse and swear, Gyte vypers lull each demon's sigh, Giant Dragons whom no Remorse storms, Shake fists at opals in a dome.
The light reflected from fiery opals has been shown by Crookes to possess in many cases a high degree of purity, rivaling in this respect the reflection from chlorate of potash.
The brilliancy of opals is said to be readily affected by atmospheric conditions.
I should like to see some diamonds; and rubies and emeralds and topazes and opals and pearls and amethysts and sapphires, and all the precious stones you've got.
Some of these pebbles are quite valuable," he continued, running a handful of shingle through his fingers, "there are amethysts and opals and topazes in some river beds.
She turned away, gazing across the wide stretch of river dotted with its shifting opals and pearls.
That is to say, that the pair of opals together would be worth seventy or eighty thousand dollars.
Mr. Mitchel placed the two opalson the desk before him and went over to the safe, where he was occupied some time opening the combination lock.
In some way the opals were next stolen without the band, and their whereabouts was unknown when a dealer in Naples told me the story of the silver band, which he offered to sell me.
Secondly, the two genuineopals absolutely match each other.
The genuine opals lay on the desk, and when you turned to the safe Livingstone merely exchanged them for the spurious doublets.
You will readily understand why I wished your eyes, for without them I could not have taken my own off of the opals even for an instant.
The man who stole the jewels, so the story goes, wishing to enhance their value as much as possible, arranged this as a scheme by which the genuineness of the opals could be tested.
Consequently, it has been little done; indeed, I doubt that the members of the trade in this city have any idea that doublet opals have been made and sold in this city.
Ordinarily, opals are not sufficiently expensive to make it pay to produce spurious specimens.
He placed the opals together, as before they were cut, and had a silver band made which would exactly clasp them in that position.
Thus he seemed to have taken the opals from the table and to have placed them in his pockets.
These opals separately are worth in the open market twenty thousand dollars each, which sum you paid to Gray.
She taught them to dig for diamonds and opals and sell them to strangers, and made them give up tillage and pasturage and build a city.
She and her brooch of opals were swept out into the surge of evolution; and she must be dependent on a fallible man to achieve her place in the infallible scheme of the universe.
I’m afraid you will not have an opportunity to see the opals though.
Do you know, I’m afraid I shall have to accept one of those lovely Mexican opals he brought with him, or hurt his feelings!
For my part, I consider opals unlucky,” said the brown-eyed blonde.
It is enriched with translucent red enamel, and has rubies set in the rays, with opals and diamonds interspersed in the border, round an engraved ruby in the centre.
Pin for the hair, gold, set withopals and diamonds.
I was entirely wrong, and acted from a foolish impulse when I found that, in spite of all my precautions, more of my opals had mysteriously disappeared.
Anyhow, he can prove to your aunt that you wanted to know if anybody offered opals for sale.
And don't you remember her showin' us that collection of pretty stones she said were opals from a Mexican mine she had an interest in long ago?
Why, perhaps one or two of the balance of those opals might take a notion to disappear about the same time I dropped in to see your aunt, without any invitation to do it.
Some sudden notion seemed to take possession of the old lady for quickly crossing over she took down the little Japanese bowl, as if to count the opals remaining.
After he went away, ma'am, I examined that same box, and found the opals there.
It ran about this way, Fred: She had the unpleasant duty to perform of telling mother that two more of her opals had disappeared that afternoon, and could not be found, high or low.
But let me tell you, I was determined to toe the mark, and not even give a think to the measly opals that once I was silly enough to admire.
He dared not refuse; and as she received the little cardboard box the old maid, glancing in, counted ten of her opals there, just half of the entire collection.
That was why, I reckon, I made out to admire her collection ofopals like I did, though they were pretty enough.
I have the old documents that tell how rich the mine once was, how the old Mexican rulers used to get their opals from it, and how all trace of it was lost in the last century.
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