Amethyst

//ˈæm.ə.θɪst//

"Amethyst" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Rare gems include aquamarine, amethyst, emerald, quartz and ruby.

Marilla always wore her amethyst brooch to church.

Marilla wore her amethyst brooch to church that day as usual.

That amethyst brooch was Marilla's most treasured possession.

I bought an amethyst necklace for myself.

I have several pieces of amethyst in my bedroom.

My favorite crystals are clear quartz and amethyst.

Her broach is amethyst.

The birthstone of February is amethyst. It's Japanese name is "Murasaki Suishou".

Other worships pass away; the idols for whom pyramids were raised lie in the desert crumbling and almost nameless; the Olympians are fled, their fanes no longer rise among the quivering olive-groves of Ilissus, or crown the emerald-islets of the amethyst Aegean!

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The burning evening sun lighted with mellow gold the coats of the fierce little tiger-kittens — orange silk with stripes of black velvet — the broken amethysts and ruined emeralds of the poor bird's train cruelly scattered over the trampled grass

Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

The Field is Topaz, a Lion rampant Amethyst [...]

Purple, on the arms of princes Mercury, of peers amethyst, and of commoners purpure, [is represented] by diagonal lines from the sinister chief to the dexter base.

1st & 4th grand Quarter alike viz. Field Pearl, on a bend Sapphire 3 Buckheads, coup'd topaz for Stanley. The 2d Quarter, Field Sapphire with an inverted Chief, amethyst. The 3d, A Checque topaz & Amethyst, this seems prior to Bosworth field, to have belong'd to Sr Robt Goushill whose Dr a Stanley married …

The Australian rapper Iggy Azalea was born Amethyst Amelia Kelly.

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