Colombian gemstones

Usage examples of emeralds.

Cradled in the hollowed ingot were chunks of large emeralds and amethysts and stones that she believed to be unpolished diamonds.

Both of them watched in amazement as chunks of fiery emeralds, pale amethysts, glittering diamonds, and a gold cross studded with emeralds fell to the Mattress .

Touching the emeralds that adorned it, she slowly and quietly whistled.

Laying on top of everything was a gold cross, studded with emeralds, about six inches high.

Seattle, and from the windows of my apartment I could see out across the rebuilt city, the skyscrapers replaced by green domes of glass silicate whose facets winked like emeralds, nested among gardens and stands of firs.

Brenda had purchased the string of emeralds was now called to the stand to testify that the scorched green cube had been a member of that particular chain.

Upon her silken waist clover leaves were embroidered, and she wore a jaunty little jacket trimmed with sparkling emeralds of a uniform size.

The invading army entered the City more slowly, for they stopped to dig emeralds out of the walls and paving-stones with the points of their knitting-needles.

Unopposed they reached the royal palace and marched up the marble steps, which had once been thickly crusted with emeralds but were now filled with tiny holes where the jewels had been ruthlessly torn from their settings by the Army of Revolt.

All the lords contributed what they could, eager to impress the king, but the most generous of all was Borneheld, Duke of Ichtar, who donated an entire herd of his finest mutton and beef, and distributed amongst the guilds a fistful of diamonds and emeralds from his mines in the Urqhart Hills.

Kristian in his perfect white dinner clothes, the little cold fires of emeralds winking on his cuffs.

A small velvet beret of the same deep blue was perched at a jaunty angle on her immaculate silver hair, and she wore the McGill emeralds and a long rope of matchless pearls.

The magnificent McGill emeralds, blazing at her throat, on her ears, arms, and hand, looked stunning against the mingled greens of the delicate fabric, the fire, depth, and brilliance of the gems intensified by the repetition of their color.