Blue gemstone

Usage examples of sapphire.

Bees wandered among the heliotrope and verbena and pots of sapphire agapanthus, and even that shady place felt the hot breath of the summer noon.

He also had poisons ready, in ceraunites and sapphires and emeralds, with which to kill himself if destruction threatened.

Angelo ripped off a pair of gold and sapphire earrings which immediately replaced the brass pair he habitually wore, while Chubby picked an enormous necklace of garnets which he hung around his neck and preened like a teenage girl.

Here Flora had surely played a trick to plant golden genista against the intense sapphire blue of a Capri sea, and she must have emptied her apron all at once to have spangled the rough grass with cistus, anemone, and starry asphodel.

Princess Sapphire and Prince Shad, the tragic madness of little Citrine Shield.

Sapphire requested that she be permitted to bring Citrine here to the castle, saying that she could not easily forget her youngest sister, though by law they are now no longer anything but cousins.

He had dressed in silk robes, bordered in elaborate embroidery, and his head covering was set with tiny sapphires, to enchance the colour of his eyes.

Arvalin city residence was in an aristocratic exurb on the south shore of thirty-mile-long Sapphire Lake.

Another statue, this of a panther, hung about the throat with strands of gold and pearl, and in another place, one of a wolf or an enormous dog, this hung with chains of silver and ice-blue faceted sapphires.

Most were small faceted diamonds, but there were several sapphires and the fiery green blaze of emeralds.

Duke Gadman, Lord Rolfston Red-briar and Lady Melina Shield, with Sapphire, Jet, Opal, Ruby, and Citrine Shield.

Duke Gadman, Lord Rolfston Redbriar and Lady Melina Shield, with Sapphire, Jet, Opal, Ruby, and Citrine Shield.

To meet her employer, she picked a skirt of the softest wool she had ever touched in her life, wool as soft and as plush as velvet, in a deep sapphire blue, and a silk waist with a flowing jabot in pale blue with more lace, dyed to match, at the collar and cuffs.

Out they trooped, swirling from every rent and gap -- orbs scarlet and sapphire, ruby orbs, orbs tuliped and irised -- the jocund suns of the birth chamber and side by side with them hosts of the frozen, pale gilt, stiff rayed suns.

Yoonistan, and his wines of Ferangistan, his eunuchs of Egypt, and his carpets of Bokhara, and his great sealed boxes bursting with unbeaten gold, and his beads of amethyst, and his bracelets of sapphire, all this and all his women, his chosen flower-like women, are yours for lust and loot and lechery, my children--all save her of whom I warned you--a woman who was mine, and who shall sit unveiled with me on the throne of all the Caliphs.