The people gave us many deer and cotton shawls better than those of New Spain, many beads and certain corals found on the South Sea, and fine turquoises that come from the north.
Besides these other reasons, they thought it was hard of him to ask them for turquoises and women, and so they decided to kill him.
As I said, Estevan reached Cibola loaded with the large quantity ofturquoises they had given him and some beautiful women whom the Indians who followed him and carried his things were taking with them and had given him.
NOTE 1] In this kingdom are produced the stones called turquoises in great abundance; they are found in the mountains, where they are extracted from the rocks.
These mines were worked up to a few years ago; the turquoises were of a pale blue.
The finest turquoises came from Khorasan; the mines were near Maaden, about 48 miles to the north of Nishapür.
Goebel, one of Khanikoff's party, found a deposit of turquoises at Taft, near Yezd.
The finestTurquoises have long come from Persia, from a locality not far from Nishapur, in the province of Khorassan.
He] reached Cibola loaded with the large quantity of turquoises they [the Indians along the route] had given him and some beautiful women whom the Indians who followed him and carried his things were taking with them and had given him.
Deliberately Van Helder took from his pocket a gold ring set with three turquoises in the form of a triangle.
That ring," said Sage, pointing to a flat gold band on the third finger of the left hand in which were set three turquoises in the form of a triangle.
The Mexican historian Ixtlilxochitl says the throne of gold in the palace of Tezcuco was inlaid with turquoises and other precious stones--that a human skull in front of it was crowned with an immense emerald of a pyramidal form.
Probably some of the fineturquoises worn by the Aztec nobles at the time of the Spanish Conquest came from this mine.
The description of these stones as "chiefly of a ruddy or aerial colour" would seem to indicate that garnets and turquoises had not even then been entirely supplanted by enamels.
Pair of earrings in form of baskets of flowers, enamelled, and set with turquoises and pearls.
They were usually looped up at intervals with circular or oblong plaques of thin and coloured gold set with small turquoises and garnets.
The front is divided into compartments subdivided into cells of various forms, enriched with vermicular gold, with turquoises and with garnets laid upon gold foil.
And since you're such a jewel expert you'll be able to tell me what's darkening those turquoises of mine.
I next drew out a Florentine repousse hand-bag set with turquoises and seed-pearls, and then a moonstone necklace, plainly of antique Roman workmanship.
Then came wondrous stuffs from the looms of Turkestan and Cashmere, turquoises from the Upper Oxus, and glittering strings of Siberian topaz and amethyst, side by side with Nuremberg toys, Lyons silks, and Sheffield cutlery.
Turquoises were just then in the ascendant; and one of the proper tint, the size of a parsnip-seed, could not be had for a hundred dollars, the full value of a diamond of equal size.
At length the good monk reached a fertile region, irrigated like a garden, where the men wore three or four strings of turquoises around their necks; and the women wore them in their ears and noses.
As he went on he heard more of the seven cities and the distant kingdoms, and of the abundance of turquoises with which the natives adorned their persons and their doorways.
Food was to be had, but none of the hoped-for spoil, even the turquoises of which so much had been told proving to be of little value.
They pressed him to accept their offers of turquoisesand of cow skins in spite of his persistent refusals.
They have turquoises in quantity, although not so many as the father provincial said.
As I said, Stephen reached Cibola loaded with the large quantity of turquoises they had given him and several pretty women who had been given him.
The dress of these people of Cibola, including the belts of turquoises about the waist, as it was described to the friar, seemed to him to resemble that of the Bohemians, or gypsies.
All the turquoises and other gifts which he had received from the Indians during his journey were taken from him, and he was confined with the people who accompanied him, over night, without receiving anything to eat or drink.
They also wore many blue stones which they dug out of a rock—the turquoises of the other narratives.
The friar asked these people why they went so far away from their homes, and was told that they went to get turquoises and cow skins, besides other valuable things, of all of which he saw a considerable store in the village.
Sometimes, also, they offer such turquoises as they have, although poor ones.
In lieu of turquoises the Pima and Maricopa today frequently wear small beaded rings pendent from the ears and septum.
The friar noticed fine turquoises suspended in the ears and noses of many of the people whom he saw,[27] and he was again informed that the principal doorways of Cibola were ceremonially ornamented with designs made of these stones.
It had gold patterns on the brown leather, and gold clasps with turquoises and rubies in the twists of them, and gold corners, so that the leather should not wear out too quickly.
They said they were in the habit of going to these countries to labor in the fields, and that they received in payment turquoises and skins of cattle.
All the people there wore turquoises in their ears and noses, and were clad in long cotton robes reaching to their feet, with a girdle of turquoises around the waist.
This all turned out as had been promised, and he then reached a populous valley, where the people all wore turquoises in greater profusion than ever, and talked about Cibola as familiarly as did the Spaniards about Mexico or Quito.
I don't know how they arranged it; but Miss Raymond wore the turquoises at the next county ball--the ring, to her dying day.
Now then, fire ahead, you, and tell your uncle all about where we go to get our turquoises from.
There is plenty of land, and if we have not enough the head Turquoises must give us some more.
The great lords likewise had holes in their nose, and placed therein very fine turquoises or other precious stones, one on each side of the nose.
All the stones found in the country were used for ornamental purposes, but emeralds, amethysts, and turquoises were most abundant.
She bent forward, as if to examine the present, passing each of the fine turquoises with which it was set mechanically through her fingers.
But the only halter she used was the chain of turquoises and gold which he himself gave her.
In this temple were several gilt statues of Buddha decorated all over with turquoises and other precious stones, and behind them a huge figure of Buddha quite 50 feet high.
All around his room were silver-gilt Chortens inlaid with turquoises and precious stones and incense was being burnt everywhere.
The skin of the stoat is highly prized by the Tibetans, who say that it has the property of restoring faded turquoises to their former beauty.
Then she went home and put on all her best clothes, the white buckskins, the turquoises and silver bracelets, and waited.
Hawikuh was one of these little crowded pueblos, looking as if it had been crumpled together and thrown away, and though there were turquoises over the doors, they were poor ones, and there was no gold.
Gathering turquoises and women as he proceeded, and followed by an increasing number of natives, the negro pushed on to Cibola.
Poor Stephen's confidence doubtless began to leave him the following day, when his turquoises and women were taken from him, and he found himself a prisoner without food or drink.
The twelve men of the west placed twelve turquoises at the west.
The twelve men of the east placed twelve turquoises at the east of the faces.
The pearls were all irregularly shaped and unsorted as to size, theturquoises very unequal in shape, size, and quality, the coral generally in beads.
These were of the usual sort, gold ornaments for head and arms and ankles, set with turquoises and strings of pearls.
It consists of a thin circle of gold, with a knot of gold and turquoisesattached by a chain to the cap or lappet before described.
Amusheh wore crimson and gold, and round her neck a mass of gold chains studded with turquoises and pearls.
They were just like a pair he had bought intending to give me; but he had remembered in time that turquoises meant unhappy memories for me, so he had kept them, and by Jove, yes!
From the brown leaf-bed the four vivid blue eggs gleamed out of the green grass like turquoises set in malachite.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turquoises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
