sapphire-hued

Updated: May 17, 2025

Then the dawn came in at his window, and he lay watching its gray grow warm into color, until suddenly he sprang from his bed and looked at the sea. Blue it lay, sapphire-hued and dancing with points of gold, lovely and luring as a charm; and over its triangle the south-bound ship was approaching.

Owen Wister - Padre Ignacio; or, the song of temptation