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Updated: June 9, 2025
They would tempt an angel. The drums of jeopardy; and that I should find them!" "Lord!" said Cutty, in an awed whisper. Green stones! The magnificent rubies and sapphires and diamonds vanished; he could see nothing but the exquisite emeralds. He picked up one still warm with Kitty's pulsing life and toyed with it. Actually, the drums!
The woven picture represented paradise as the Persians imagine it full of green trees, flowers and fruits. Here you can still see a fragment of the sparkling fountain which, when seen from a distance, with its sprinkling of diamonds, sapphires and emeralds, looked like living water. Here the pearls represent the foam on a wave.
And Intahn who had carried at the banquet for fifty years the goblet of the King set with its four sapphires each as large as an eye, said as he spread his hands towards the palace making the sign of farewell: "Not all the magic of prophecy nor yet foreseeing nor perceiving may equal the power of wine.
In the middle of the room was such as basin as he had seen in the two other rooms, only it was filled with jewels diamonds and rubies and emeralds and sapphires and precious stones of all kinds that sparkled and blazed and flamed like a million stars. Around the wall, and facing the basin from all sides, stood six golden statues.
Soon, they are saying, this one who has gone will be in gardens fair as the gardens of Allah Himself, where sit beautiful houris, in robes woven of diamonds, sapphires, and rubies, each gem of which has an eye of its own that glitters through a vapour of smouldering ambergris, while fountains send up pearly spray in the shade of fragrant cedars."
They dig them out of a dry river-bed in some spot that is known to the priests only, and with them other beautiful stones of a blue colour." "Sapphires probably," said Leonard to himself: "they generally go together." "Every year they dig them," she went on, "and the biggest of those that are found in their digging they bind upon the brow of her who is to be offered as a wife to the god Jal.
In the morning, Stanley took one of the little parcels from the bag and opened it. It contained thirty stones, of which twenty were rubies, six sapphires, and four emeralds. They seemed to him of a good size but, as they were in the rough state, he had no idea what size they would be, when cut. There were three of the Parsee merchants.
The little lady at his side was the daintiest maid that I had ever seen. The skin, white as a water-lily, was very gently flushed upon her cheeks; the face was delicately oval; the little mouth, the tenderest in all the world; the forehead low and broad, and the slightly slanting eyes when she raised the lashes that hung over them like long shadows were of the deep blue of sapphires.
To appropriate a pair of smuggled emeralds was a first-class sporting proposition, with a humorous twist. As it stood now, he would be picking Hawksley's pocket; and he wasn't rogue enough for that. Hang the luck! Emeralds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, and diamonds! No doubt many of them with histories in a bag hung to his neck and all these thousands of miles!
A little hoard of bright treasures; red rubies, ay as red as blood-diamonds as brilliant as the glittering of crossed daggers sapphires as blue as the lightning pearls as pure as the little folded hands of a dead child opals as dazzlingly changeful as woman's love! Why do you start?" for she had moved restlessly in my embrace. "Do I use bad similes? Ah, cara mia, I am no poet!
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