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Updated: June 9, 2025
The chariot was all of cedar, gilt and adorned with crystal; save that the fore-end had panels of sapphires, set in borders of gold, and the hinder-end the like of emeralds of the Peru colour. There was also a sun of gold, radiant upon the top, in the midst; and on the top before a small cherub of gold, with wings displayed. The chariot was covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.
"Lord Deppingham must have sent them down to pitch him over the wall," he said, with an excited grin. "Impossible! My husband is hunting for sapphires in the ravine back of " She did not complete the sentence. The Enemy was greeting the statuesque natives with a friendliness that upset all calculations. It was evident that the meeting was prearranged.
She kept pausing in her work and regarding it, and when Capes came round to her, she first put her hand in her lap and then rather awkwardly in front of him. But men are often blind to rings. He seemed to be. In the afternoon she had considered certain doubts very carefully, and decided on a more emphatic course of action. "Are these ordinary sapphires?" she said.
"That's right. So are the other two. A Bible and a theological dictionary. They're wrinkled the same way." Her eyes were wide, bright sapphires. "But why? Why would he do such a thing, for goodness' sake?" "I don't know why it was done," Mike said slowly, "but I doubt if it was for goodness' sake. We haven't gotten to the bottom of this hanky-panky yet, I don't think.
The sapphires he left in his desk. While the Forsyth family was passing through its time of trial there had been other chops and changes going on in the lives of those with whom their fortunes were more or less connected.
There were times when the color of these eyes did not resemble sapphires; rather disks of gun- metal, caused by a sudden dilation of the pupils. "Yes, Miss, I had rather you would not." "James, you forget yourself. Saddle Pirate, and take Jane back to the stables. Besides, Jane has a bit of a cold."
A page stood at the right-hand side of his chair of state, blowing cool air upon him with a fan, two feet long and a foot broad, curiously embroidered, and enriched with sapphires. The English gentlemen were kindly received; and, having heard their message, he sent one of his counsellors to conduct them back to the ships.
A peacock on the balustrade, in the sunshine, spread out his tail into a great Oriental fan, and slowly lowered it, making a prismatic shower of topaz, sapphires, and emeralds as it fell.
You behold the occupation of Athens, and the battle of Thermopylae, and other points still more characteristic of the great Persian war, rivers drunk up and disappearing from the face of the earth, and a bridge stretched across the sea, and a canal cut through Athos.... One chamber for the men has a roof fashioned into a vault like the heaven, composed entirely of sapphires, which are the bluest of stones, and resemble the sky in color.
'Here we have another new book about this celebrated bird, said the emperor. But it was no book; it was a little work of art in a box, an artificial nightingale, exactly like the living one, but it was studded all over with diamonds, rubies and sapphires. When the bird was wound up it could sing one of the songs the real one sang, and it wagged its tail, which glittered with silver and gold.
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