The collectors place a vessel over the spot [where the topazes are seen] as a mark, and dig them up in the day.
It was cleared of the serpents by the king,[715] on account of the destruction occasioned by those noxious animals to the persons who frequented the island, and on account of the topazes found there.
The mention of a mine of topazes excited my curiosity, as it gave me the idea of a vein worked under-ground, and containing those substances in the matrix as originally formed.
Blue topazes and aqua-marinas are also found here; some of the former are of a singular variety, being in one part blue, and in the other clear and pellucid.
They also informed me that green topazes were sometimes found, which I very much doubted.
They informed me that sometimes, but very rarely, topazes had been found attached to quartz, but even in these instances the quartz was fractured and out of its original place[36].
The topazes which were shewn me, were very imperfect, and full of flaws.
There are slips in some of them in which topazes are found, but rarely any of good quality.
In the bed of the streamlets which fall westward into the Jigitonhonha, those rolled white topazes are found which are known under the name of minas-novas with blue topazes, and aquamarine beryls.
It often happened that the mixture for topazes gave only an opaque mass, translucent at the edges, and in thin plates of a red colour.
Topazes are not scarce enough to be much valued by the lapidary.
He would stand a long time in front of the window, enthralled by the spell of the bleeding rubies, the topazes which burned like wounds, the celestial blue turquoises.
The splendid pearl, thus highly rated by the Spanish courtier, was given by Charles to the Cardinal-Infante along with a pectoral of topazes and diamonds.
In this quaint conceit the role of lettuce was played by an enormous emerald, ably seconded by topazes for oil, and rubies for vinegar, while the minor but essential part of salt was assigned to pearls.
The ceiling was an assemblage of small beams, with amethysts and topazesamid their gilding in the knots of the wood.
There were topazes from Mount Zabarca to avert terrors, opals from Bactriana to prevent abortions, and horns of Ammon, which are placed under the bed to induce dreams.
The amethysts and topazes of the ceiling made luminous spots quiver here and there, and Salammbo as she walked would turn her head a little to see them.
The jewels found here, are diamonds, topazes of several kinds, and amethysts.
In the southern Urals, in the gold washings of the River Sanarka, yellow Topazes are found closely resembling those of Brazil.
The Brazilian Topazes come mostly from the Province of Minas Geraes, the province which also yields diamonds, beryls and many other precious stones.
The natural colors of Topaz are in general perfectly durable, although some of the deep wine yellow Topazesfrom Russia fade on exposure to daylight.
I have topazes, yellow as are the eyes of tigers, and topazes that are pink as the eyes of a wood-pigeon, and green topazes that are as the eyes of cats.
Nor were other precious stones lacking, for rubies, emeralds, and topazes were all discovered in such large quantities in the latter half of the eighteenth century as to seriously lower their price.
It was something which she had long wanted and which she knew he could ill afford:--a circlet of topazes for her hair.
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.
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.
She made up for a paucity of diamonds by the size of her topazes and the profusion of her amethysts, and her Bristol paste buckles would have been big enough for the tallest of the Prussian king's grenadiers.
Some of the wine yellow true topazes lose the yellow, but retain the pink component, on being gently heated.
There is, however, little chance of fraud in this connection, as natural pink topazesare not seen in the trade, being very rare.
In order to make clear to the dealer the difference between the two species, the author asked him if he hadn't some smaller topazes in stock that had cost him considerably more than the brooch stones.
The dealer replied that he had some small wine yellow topazesfor which he had paid more, and he produced them.
I don't want him to scoop off my topazes and call for my emeralds.
Suddenly one day he seized his palette-knife, scraped the whole necklace off the canvas with a stroke and, declared she must wear her rose-topazes in order to carry out his scheme of colour.
She was wearing her rose-topazes when Jane saw the picture in the Academy, and very lovely they looked on the delicate whiteness of her neck.
But to him rugs and topazes are rugs and topazes first, and do not represent so many gold pieces.
Take, friend, those topazes from me, or I shall throw them into the street.
And he continued to polish the topazeson his sleeve.
If I love topazes to-day, it is because of her eyes.
I have put sapphires and rubies in the eyes of the engraved serpents on the brooches and pale green topazes in the mouths of the carved monsters on the rings I made.
Miss O'Kelly's chin fell upon her topazes so sharply that she wakened with a start.
A necklace of huge yellow topazes emphasized the space they failed to cover.
But when the pink topazes came, as they did come to her, after a minute or two, she stood up again in the intensity of her admiration.
It suited hers, and so her husband's had quite a lover-like diffidence in it as he watched her fingering the thin gold chain with pink topazes hanging from it, which he took from a drawer.
She came the next time with a string of the most beautiful rose-topazes I have ever seen, set in a most curious old gold design.
The topazesare cached under a rock near the cliff.
They likewise make false diamonds in India with white rubies, topazes and sapphires, which look like fine gems and these are found in Ceylon, and they only differ from diamonds in the colour which they have by nature.
The natural topazes are found in Ceylon which the Indians call pur ceraga, it is very hard stone and very cold and heavy like the ruby and sapphire, because all three are of one kind.
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