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Sentence Examples Years ago, people would come to these shrines to leave offerings of turquoise, jade and silver for the gods. It was a massive building lined with silver and jade, a mountainous structure glimmering in the sun. And in her armchair there is a design of Ru Yi, an L-shaped jade ornament originally symbolizing the male organ. One of the jade Buddhas can be found in a sitting position at the moment of his enlightenment on the second floor of Wentang Hall. One hand left the warmth of her body and skimmed lightly over the surface of the jade pool. Most women can easily distinguish between forest, kelly, sea, celadon, lime, kiwi, jade, sage and pistachio greens. Her platinum blonde hair was neatly cut and sleeked back, besides the odd strand which dangled over her jade eyes. What's more, treasured wood was decorated with bone, jade, gold, bronze and shells adding to the value. Everywhere there are clear jade rivers with deep natural pools, surrounded by sun-warmed granite boulders. Hewn from jade, nephrite, marble, and hardstone, the oddly shaped blades lack an obvious prototype in any functional tool or weapon. Some plaques are carved with dragons, phoenixes and flowers, some are even inlaid with pearls and jade. Greens are verdant and jade, while blues blend in various cobalt combinations. Hathorne feebly lifted one of the jade pieces and moved it diagonally to the edge of the board. In fact idocrase is one stone that is sometimes mistaken for jade by jewelers and consumers alike. The shop has a good selection of New Zealand souvenirs at reasonable prices including jade and paua items. A while silk scarf was wrapped around her shoulders, and a jade pendant was clasped around her neck. Striking jewellery from these Toronto designers includes materials like black jade, amber and cinnabar. In Central America and Mexico, the Chinese may have introduced technologies for papermaking, dye extraction and jade working. The brilliant emeralds faded to a dull jade, the gold sunbeams shattering, giving way to dreary grey light. Stones like emerald, ruby, blue, sapphire, jade, onex, aquamarine, malakite and peridot are used for dressing the pieces. Show More Sentences Even so, about 400 relics, including silverware, jade ware, copperware, ironware and earthenware, were found during excavation work. Until recently few people considered Wyoming to have potential for gemstones other than nephrite jade. Of the two kinds of jade, jadeite and nephrite, the former is harder than the latter and cannot be scratched with a penknife blade. Establishing the date at which jade objects were carved has so far proved problematical. Ancient amber, jade and other precious stones are lovingly re-created in polymer clay, as well as newer, space-age materials, such as niobium. Another often used precious stone was jade, which because of its color often represented the corn plant in the Mayan culture. These include aquamarine, chrome diopside, diamond, jade, labradorite, forsterite, opal, pyrope, variscite, and many unique agates and jaspers. He got the armor and also an old jade of a horse, which limped on three legs, dragging the fourth after it. My necklaces are made mainly of semiprecious stones, such as agate, quartz, amber, rock crystal and jade. Jamie was wearing a green sweater that brought out his jade eyes and a pair of faded denim jeans. Among his lauded acquisitions at the museum, Shah Jahan's jade cup holds pride of place. The raw materials of these tools were pottery, porcelain, copper, iron, lacquer, wood, bamboo, stone, jade, jadeite, agate and coral. One of the hotel receptionists crosses the bar wearing jade green chiffon, her midriff exposed. The rare chloromelanite, generally called black jade, though slivers of it have a green tinge, often is classed as a third type of jade. The dress was a lovely jade green with eggplant touches at the wrists, hem and neckline. Some of the highlights of the collection include Chinese jade and Japanese lacquer and carved ivories. Garnet, emerald, jade, and lapis lazuli are among the gemstones created by metamorphic processes. Garnet, jade and lapis lazuli are crystals formed from rock which has quite literally transformed its shape and appearance. They usually consist of a very thin opal slice sandwiched between a glass or quartz top and a potch, basanite, jade, or black onyx bottom. In the earlier period of Chinese history, jade played a pivotal role in ceremony and ritual. Show More Sentences The Maori of New Zealand carve hei-tikis from jade which are passed from generation to generation, connecting the wearer to their ancestors. It reproduces in jade a rectangular section vessel of the Shang or early Western Zhou. They're sitting on a small ledge on the window, the jade and the two cacti. He was an avid collector of jade, postage stamps, and more recently revenue stamps and licences. A property developer and financier, he is an important collector of Asian antiquities, particularly jade. The walls were a dark jade color here, the tile a light tan covered with crimson matting. The waters of the lake are limpid, the colour of jade, and reflect the surrounding beauty of the peaks and trees. The strong Chinese belief in Jade's healthful properties led to the tradition of wearing jade jewellery. Earrings made of black metal with American diamonds embedded, chains made of gunmetal, coral and jade and pearl bangles add to the gaiety. Colorado has no good, documented sites for gem opal, emerald, ruby, and jade, but who knows what exists? In the center, there are either jade, pearl or onyx pieces depending on the value. Her hair was still that fascinating flame red colour and her eyes were still twin jade sparks against the creamy canvas of her complexion. The wrap colors include a multi blue, black, white, red, turquoise, purple, jade green, navy blue, gold and a maroon type of color. It comes in different eye-catching colors like, beige, black, caramel, charcoal, blue, gray, green, red, taupe, wine, jade and tan. But it can also be achingly beautiful, its color ranging from platinum to ancient jade, depending on the light it's reflecting. There is a belief that jade improves its appearance through constant contact with the skin. The artwork had been fun for about a half-hour, now the displays of jade had become her prison. Out came cut stones, cabochons, obscure gems, common amethyst, odd colors of garnet, sapphire, and jade. Neither had iron tools and instead used such hard stones as flint, jade, dolerite, basalt, and serpentine to make axes, knives, and chisels. The horizontal axis is a bicephalous serpent with mandibles made from jade that symbolize water and feathers. Show More Sentences Sometimes they were shot with streaks of ultramarine, or they lit up the sea like jade. On the pinkie of her right hand she wears a large yellow jade stone set in diamonds, a traditional symbol worn by rich people to protect themselves from swindles. The colour of the jade indicated to which rank its wearer belonged. Is he a bearded Mongolian warrior on horseback, decked out in lustrous jade and gold armor? A variety of ancient silver and jade ware has been seized from the temporary residences of the robbers, who dug tombs late at night and hid the relics in secret places. As Hunter looked up at the ceiling, he saw that the it was covered by a single piece of a black jade, mixed with the gems, sparkling like stars in the night sky. His eyes were a sweet shade in between jade green and light hazel that Rebecca had once admitted to being jealous of, and he hadn't let her live it down since. First, Jon placed an emerald, a diamond, a rose quartz, a ruby, an amethyst, and several chunks of jade in a circle outside the door that led to the chambers. His most notable acquisitions include a jade flask belonging to Clive of India, and a newly rediscovered renaissance Mantuan roundel of Vulcan and Venus. And in the big sparse invisible drops that fall early, with no wind, the new rice dances jade and silver, backgrounded by a slanting late summer afternoon rain by Hokusai. Starita first opened jade and Pearl in 1974, but always maintained it as a side project while holding down full-time jobs. Then, in 2013, Ai used precious jade to replicate the handcuffs that confined him to his chair during his 2011 imprisonment. On an afternoon in late spring the breakers that roll ashore on Cape Hatteras are a milky jade, a color that reminds me how far south we are, and how close to the Gulf Stream. His eyes were like chips of jade gems, matching the bottle-green color of his button-down shirt worn beneath the white doctor's knee-length jacket. I should stock up one jade, rubies, onyx, malachite, and diamonds. Both were of ivory and the brush was set with pink shell, onyx and jade. Objects are also carved out of onyx, jade, and other types of stone. The gem was not a ruby, and it wasn't an emerald either, and it wasn't a diamond or an opal or a pearl, and it wasn't jade or tourmaline or jasper. Royal summer has crowned the Malahat with emerald and jade and celadon. To one side of the balcony door, nearer the bed, stood a substantial armoir, again in mahogany, with etched jade panels inset into its double doors. Show More Sentences Two jade figurines lay beside Pacal, one representing the sun god. Her vivid jade eyes matched the emeralds that decorated her crown. Their long white necks were flecked with the tiniest feathers of iridescent azure and jade and they walked on their thin bright yellow legs with a magnificent strut. Nephrite jade, a very hard substance, called 'soft jade' because it is not quite as steely as jadeite. Most women start with a jade stone known as nephrite, which is said to have cleansing and clearing powers. The result is a jade green soup that is smooth and gently tonic. The first examples were stones, jade pieces, bronze vessels and weapons, but came to include talismans and magic diagrams. It was roofed in with gold and silver beams, incrusted with pearls and jade. The white jade carving turned lamp base depicts an immortal carrying a branch of peaches, a flywhisk and a gourd. Kylie has been spotted in a black lace Chanel slipdress and Demi Moore in a jade green chiffon dress by Yves St Laurent. And if pea-green jade, carved in the form of a pea and set with rose diamonds is your kind of thing, you need look no further. This is termed burial metamorphism, and it can result in rocks such as jade. The olives seemed weighed down under the weight of their fruit, smooth drops of green jade among which the choirs of cicadas zithered. For a gentleman, he was uncommonly rude, but she supposed wearing silk and jade gave him that privilege. Made in the early 20th century, the green ball on the handle is bowenite, a jade substitute used because it felt warmer. Mosaic funerary masks could also be fashioned from jade, such as that of K'inich Janaab' Pakal, king of Palenque. The Maya nobility practised dental modification, and some lords wore encrusted jade in their teeth. The jade is said to have originated nearby in Taiwan and is also found in many other areas in insular and mainland Southeast Asia. Start by purchasing a Jade Egg, a smooth, egg-shaped stone typically made of jade but sometimes made of rose quartz or obsidian. This style is particularly reflected in the rectangular belt plaques made of gold and bronze, with other versions in jade and steatite. Show More Sentences Lilac or indigo stones are best, such as pale amethyst, tanzanite, iolite, lilac charoite and lilac jade. From the 2nd millennium BCE, nephrite jade was being traded from mines in the region of Yarkand and Khotan to China. East Asian seals are carved from a variety of hard materials, including wood, soapstone, sea glass and jade. Scientists aren't sure of the exact geological conditions that cause jade to form, but Harlow and his team are digging up answers. The biggest shopping draw we found was the jade, called pounamu or greenstone by the Maoris. Lamps were constructed from jade, bronze, ceramic, wood, stone, and other materials. Chinese jade Cup with Dragon Handles, Song dynasty, 12th century. PandaHall is an online wholesaler and retailer of beads and findings, which include silver, pearls, jade, crystal items, gemstones, and lampwork glass. After the establishment of the Qing dynasty in 1644, the fergetun gradually became simply a form of jewelry, with the most valuable ones made in jade and ivory. The beads in this set were made using a range of materials, predominantly carnelian and turquoise, but also nephrite jade, microcline feldspar and other blue-green stones. Small Buddhist figures and groups were produced to a very high quality in a range of media, as was relief decoration of all sorts of objects, especially in metalwork and jade. Precious materials such as gold, silver, jade, and ivory are often used for small luxury works, and sometimes in larger ones, as in chryselephantine statues. The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it. Examples from Classical Literature No, he was certain a hand other than his own had dropped the jade from Mirzapore in with the fei tsui stones. She emptied the soap dish, cleaned it, poured in the germicide, and dropped the jade necklace into the liquid. Harriet Kennedy would have dressed her in jade green to match her eyes, and with long jade earrings, and made her a fashion. So far below that no sound of its strife could reach us, the Yellowstone River ran a finger-wide strip of jade green. The woman had propped herself up in bed and was fingering the jade green elephant charm which hung on its slender chain. He did not have much to say in return, but he studied the jade green elephant and the paper with deep interest. The furniture in this room is of black and gold lacquer, and the rug and hangings are of jade green. They valued it chiefly as the home of their much-prized jade or greenstone. Or in ivory chopsticks, oolong tea, imitation jade, litchi nuts and preserved leeches! It is a kind of nephrite or jade, a mineral which usually occurs in talcose or magnesian rocks. Thus, the thang white made by Ho is said to have been brilliant as jade, and a contemporary was making vases of artificial jade. Many of these knives have silica blades, some of the handles being of jade. Whilst the term jade is popularly used in this sense, it is now usually restricted by mineralogists to nephrite. How I execrated that ill-starred jade, and the Dutch skiver, but for whom I might at this moment have been my own master. Lastly she put on the blue-green costume, with the turquoise and jade embroidery. Among these was a couteau de chasse, with a double-barrelled pistol in a handle of jade. Then round about him the Herd Boy saw forests of chrysophrase and trees of jade. Jade and family Jewels of the succulent world, jade plants earned their name from the beautiful sheen of their thick, dark green leaves. A man who entrusts his heart to a woman has a jade for his banker. Mowgli looked at Bagheera to see if the Panther was angry too, and Bagheera's eyes were as hard as jade stones. Show More Sentences But then, you see, there's no two of them alike on the seas, and she's an uncommonly ticklish jade to load. Round his neck is a chain of pale green jade, and his hands are like withered leaves. Why won't you let me send you any of those jade or ivory things you are so fond of? Other specimens imitated jade or agate or cornelian or some other stone. The man with the ebony skin, the eyes of jade and the astrakhan cap bent over Raoul. That jade of yours, Toinette, has grown more insolent than ever. I held the crystal globe in one hand and the jade talisman in the other. For instance, why does she always wear that jade green charm? She has a lovely frock, jade green tulle with a girdle of gold brocade. The wounds inflicted by jade Fortune in these regards are yet unhealed. Figure 35 is of jade, from New Caledonia, in my own collection. And far down at the bottom winds the jade green ribbon of the Yellowstone. A comic melodrama, the play hurtles through a zillion plot twists involving a priceless jade Buddha, drug smuggling, false identities, and suicide by chrysanthemum sniffing. Upon the ground lie ornaments of gold, One with the dust, and none to gather them, Hair-pins of jade and many a costly gem, Kingfishers' wings and golden birds scarce cold. Find more words! 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