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Updated: June 19, 2025
Lines of white flowers all following one another in regular succession formed long parabolas like star-rockets on the azure-coloured earth. The gloomy bushes exhaled warm and honied odours. There were trunks of trees smeared with cinnabar, which resembled columns covered with blood.
The same is the case with Melian white, because there is said to be a mine of it in Melos, one of the islands of the Cyclades. Green chalk is found in numerous places, but the best at Smyrna. Sandarach, in many places, but the best is mined in Pontus close by the river Hypanis. I shall now proceed to explain the nature of cinnabar.
That opportunity was the securing of a half interest in a cinnabar lode in Sonora, which has already gone up a hundred thousand dollars in his hands! By Jove! a man can afford to drop a little social ceremony on those terms eh, Josephine?" he concluded with a triumphant chuckle. "He's as likely to lose his hundred thousand to-morrow, while his manners will remain," said Mrs. Randolph.
I answered in the affirmative, and he then welcomed us in the name of the king, upon my arrival at the island asking me the number of my crew, whether I had any sick on board, and many other particulars, all of which he noted down upon tablets of gold, with a piece of red cinnabar.
Every minute the bewildering contours were transmuted by the play of sun and cloud and our swift progression toward the land. Red spots appeared rare against the field of verdure where the mountain-side had been stripped naked by erosion, and the volcanic cinnabar of ages contrasted oddly with the many greens of frond and palm and hillside grove.
In Derbyshire, where this disorder greatly prevails, they use the following preparation. Fifteen grains of burnt sponge are beaten up with a similar quantity of millipede, and from eight to ten grains of cinnabar antimony. The whole is to be mixed with honey, and taken every morning before breakfast.
You're a-comin' along with me an' fix Cinnabar up an' then you're a-goin' to go down to the depot an' pick you out a train that don't make no local stops an' climb onto it an' ride 'til you get where the buffalo grass don't grow. That is, onless Cinnabar should happen to cash in. If he does " "He won't! He won't! It's only chloral. A little strychnine will fix him up." "Better get busy then.
For a large board had been nailed by the crown prince on the very front of our house, between the door and window, painted in cinnabar the pigment of the country with doggrel rhymes and contumelious pictures, and announcing, in terms unnecessarily figurative, that the trick was already played, the claim already jumped, and Master Sam the legitimate successor of Mr. Ronalds.
"This girl went ridin' with Jack Purdy he borrowed the side-saddle from Cinnabar " "Did Cinnabar loan him that saddle fer any such ?" "Hold on, now, Cinnabar don't know nothin' about it. Purdy wants to borrow his side-saddle an' Joe says sure." "He might of know'd if Purdy wanted it, it wasn't fer no good. You're all bad enough, goodness knows, but he was the worst of the lot.
He was the only one of the whole outfit had the guts to tend Jimmy Trimble when he got the spotted fever nursed him back to good as ever, too, after the Doc had him billed through fer yonder." Cinnabar Joe turned and brought his fist down on the bar. "I'll do it!" he gritted. "Purdy'll think Tex switched the drinks on me. Only I hope he wasn't lyin' about that there stuff.
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