After all the pincushions and sofa pillows and embroidered slippers were sold, Emil precipitated a panic by taking out one of his turquoise shirt studs, which every one had been admiring, and handing it to the auctioneer.
He found there a knife smelling of dynamite, matches, a turquoise carved to what was plainly meant to be the form of a bad-tempered horse, and two small specimens of ore!
I wish you'd give me that little turquoise horse to remember you by.
He took the little turquoise horse from his pocket and laid it in the till of the violated trunk.
He fished in his vest pocket and produced tobacco and papers, matches--last of all, a tiny turquoise horse, an inch long.
I found some turquoise earrings last week, which I took care not to mention to her, but yesterday the baboo of Mr. B.
I had sent back to have a cover fitted to the picture, and it has come back so beautifully mended--with a turquoise cross on an enamelled lid.
Few cool harmonies can be better than ultramarine and turquoise on greenish white, of which the Persians and Indians are so fond in tile-work.
The repeated cartouche in turquoise blue has a most lovely effect upon the whole.
One sees turquoise green domes floating in a silver-moated ether, long colonnades of glacial ice columns leading to regions beyond, where quiet silver pools throw back the mirrored glories.
The little towers above, with the turquoise-blue columns, show a most daring use of color when you consider the colors below, but how admirably that turquoise blue works onto the domes and the blue columns of The Tower of Jewels.
The latticed windows are strongly suggestive of Mohammedan work and are a beautifulturquoise green.
Don't lose sight of the beautiful turquoise green columns in the temple forms of the Tower.
The dome of the Rotunda is burnt orange, with the guilloche below it worked out in turquoise green.
Notice the pastel pink, turquoise blue and burnt orange on this portal.
The records remaining state that he invaded Egypt and held in possession for a time Maganna, the land of Magan, the region of the turquoise and copper mines and of the famous diorite.
He gave me this," she lightly fingered the turquoise and pearl pendant.
The turquoise ring of Shylock, which, we are told in the Merchant of Venice (Act iii.
Referring to some of these, we find, for instance, that the turquoise ring was believed to possess special properties, a superstition to which Dr.
Of course, such a change is far more likely to occur to a ring stone than to a turquoise mounted in some more protected situation.
Several of our western states supply turquoise of fair quality, notably New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California.
Turquoise of the finest blue and most compact texture (and hence least subject to color change) comes from the province of Khorasan in Persia.
Similarly opal, moonstone, and turquoise are of about the same hardness as feldspar and are all rated 6.
The relation of the height or thickness to the length or width may be varied to suit the size and shape of the rough piece or to suit one's ideas of symmetry, provided the material be an opaque one, such as turquoise or lapis lazuli.
However, it should be suggested that most turquoise is sufficiently porous to absorb grease, oil, or other liquids, and its color is frequently ruined thereby.
Turquoise has a dull waxy luster, due to its slight hardness.
Clear-cut, lovely peaks sprang toward a sky that was like fire opal with turquoise glowing blue behind it.
The coloring within the arch and in the overlaid ornament around and above it is a warm pink, effectively combined with turquoise blue and orange.
The great dome of the rotunda which crowns so many of the vistas, is stained a velvety burnt orange, with a turquoise blue-green border.
O Hast, I have entered in to thee, I have driven back those who would come to the turquoise [sky], and I have followed the winds of the company of the gods.
I am the god who is the Bull, the lord of the gods, as he goeth forth from the turquoise [sky].
Whilst she does this, and afterwards dresses her and fastens on the turquoise ornaments, she endeavours to collect her thoughts, and to summon courage for what she has resolved to do and say.
But forget-me-nots are so ridiculously sentimental; and theturquoise ornaments?
Whether it was a dinner, or a reception, or a picnic party up the canyon, or a horseback excursion to the turquoise mines, he spent as much time by her side as the other people allowed.
In this spot, where the herbage is like sweet ointment and green as the turquoise and emerald, I think upon my song, holding the beauteous flowers in my hand, etc.
In this spot of turquoise and emerald, I think upon beauteous songs, beauteous flowers; let us rejoice now, dear friends and children, for life is not long upon earth.
We have left the turquoise houses, the serpent houses there in Tollan, where ruled our leader Nacxitl Topiltzin.
Come forth to the dance, ye lords, let there be abundance of turquoise and feathers; our dwelling on earth is not for long; only let the gods give me flowers to my hand, give me abundance of turquoises.
For instance, he should like to know what there was to laugh at in the chap's saying to the Jew that some one had shown him a turquoise which he had bought from the Jew's daughter for a monkey.
Of course you couldn't get much of a diamond ring for twenty-five pounds; but you could get a first-rate turquoise for half the money.
When the Spaniards and Mexicans came among them, the iron, brass and copper of the conquerors were soon added to the dried seeds, shell beads, pieces of turquoise and coral they had hitherto used.
This is what Marcos records of the Indian's story: Report of Turquoise Stones.
All the way down, the strong scenic features of the Canyon remain in evidence, and the depths traversed by the trail but enhance their glory and beauty, as their outlines are projected against the perfect turquoise of the Arizona sky.
And on portals of the principal houses there are many designs of turquoise stones, of which he says they have a great abundance and, the people in these cities are very well clothed.
The turquoise and garnet is found here in places known only to these Indians.
He took the turquoisefrom the skies, an emblem of unfaltering faith.
Percival could not fix the precise date, but he knew it was early in the month, because about the eighth or ninth he was suddenly aware that he had more than once encountered a smile, a long curl and a pair of turquoise earrings on the stairs.
It was not the vase only, but he felt that it implied Lydia herself, curl, turquoise earrings, smile and all, and on the evening of his meeting with Judith Lisle the thought was doubly hateful.
An emerald-green bird with a turquoise throat, black necklace, and a black band through the eye.
A green bird withturquoise throat, black streak through eye, and two long bristle-like feathers in tail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turquoise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: azure; blue; cerulean; color; diamond; emerald; jade; livid; pigment; ruby; sapphire; stone
