Sapphires, rubies, garnets, and emeralds are all perfectly acceptable, though. |
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Subtly impressive was the beautifully banded agate Mughal fly whisk handle, tipped with a garnet on an amber collar and inset with emeralds. |
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The emeralds are found in black calcareous shales interbedded with limestones of Cretaceous age. |
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The Belfast-born self-made millionairess gave generously to charitable causes, including parting with emeralds. |
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Rubies, emeralds and amethysts glittered out at the class and everyone gasped, even Mrs Kelly. |
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The shining diamonds, rubies, emeralds, peridots, topaz, sapphires have now acquired a special status for the wearer. |
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His green as emeralds eyes and that clever little cleft in his chin easily put him in the ranks of the droolworthy. |
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The country is also blessed with plenty of precious minerals such as diamonds, gold, emeralds, amethyst which are all waiting to be exploited. |
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While gold coins are set on one side of this necklace, the reverse comprises units of rubies and emeralds encircled with pearls. |
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He watched as the glass rained down slowly to the ground, emeralds falling from the tower, which was now aflame. |
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A famous Saxon heirloom is nearby, the lump of brown iron ore studded with newly-discovered Colombian emeralds. |
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The hardest stones, such as diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, are normally cut and polished and mounted as jewellery. |
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The beautiful green emeralds, mined by the Salfo't in the South, were smashed and only one silver reed remained unbent. |
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Zambia today boasts of some of the quality gemstones such as emeralds, amethyst, aquamarine and many others. |
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Shaped like a chain of flowers were dozens of amethysts, blue topaz and emeralds, lined with silver. |
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Her eyes were like her name, two emeralds and her light green eye shadow brought their beautiful color out. |
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He pulled out magnificent earrings with glistening pearls and emeralds dripping from them and then a glass cup with painted mermaids on it. |
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The science of gemmology teaches how to pick the best and how to spot even the smallest flaw in diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and others. |
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The Deity has emeralds embedded in its eyes and diamonds on its forehead and navel. |
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Other slaves cut and shaped the amethysts, topazes, emeralds, and diamonds that often filled the gold and silver settings. |
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The spring 2005 collection features thin fourteen-karat-gold strands interlaced with small garnets, emeralds, pink tourmalines, and other stones. |
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The traditional necklace of red rubies and green emeralds contrasted flawlessly with her skin. |
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They sparkle like dark green emeralds revealed to the light for the first time. |
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She had on a beautiful necklace of sparkling emeralds, with a diamond coronet. |
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Illustrated below, the crown is made of gold and set with rubies, emeralds, diamonds, turquoises, and amethysts. |
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They looked down lightly and saw the blades of grass glittering like beautiful emeralds. |
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The beautiful emeralds of the South American rainforests became a warm blue. |
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The brilliant emeralds faded to a dull jade, the gold sunbeams shattering, giving way to dreary grey light. |
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The coronation crown featured large balas rubies, surrounded by emeralds, pearls, oriental sapphires, and rubies. |
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Among the products that were marketed were emeralds, tourmalines, aquamarine, amethyst, citrini and industrial minerals such as talc and lime. |
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Similar is the attraction of other gem stones like emeralds and rubies, which have started gaining more prominence these days. |
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Gemstones such as diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires are rarely drilled to make beads as this detracts from their worth. |
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Some of the antique jewellery was studded with emeralds, ruby, zircons and pearls. |
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The middle daughter had rich auburn hair and green eyes like sparkling emeralds. |
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The necklace shown in Plate VII is set with paste stones replicating emeralds. |
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Beauty is generally perceived as a good clear colour and transparency, as shown by fine emeralds or rubies. |
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Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, rubies, opals, sapphires, emeralds, and many more gems I couldn't name adorned his neck, wrists, hands and ankles. |
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It was burnished silver, and the eyes of the dragon were indeed tiny emeralds, and the dragon's teeth were made of ivory. |
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An intricate golden arm band set with emeralds and sapphires is hardly understated. |
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The thorax was trimmed with fine hairs, culminating in the huge green compound eyes meeting at the top of the head, emeralds seamed with black. |
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Black and white diamonds, rubies and emeralds nestle in this miraculous and improbable setting. |
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The grass was a magnificent, healthy looking green, like dark emeralds. |
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Her vivid jade eyes matched the emeralds that decorated her crown. |
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A delicately crafted link bracelet was soon joined by a bracelet forged to look like a wreath of lilies and one of several strands of gold with emeralds woven into it. |
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Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds. |
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Jewellery studded with rubies and emeralds are also on display. |
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The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds. |
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The crown is lavishly decorated with twenty pearls and ninety-six gemstones including sapphires, rubies, balas rubies, emeralds and lynx sapphires. |
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As they reached the city gates, they saw fist-sized rubies and great sapphires and emeralds and flashes of amethyst hanging like decorative baubles from every possible place. |
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The set was composed of a brooch, a pair of earrings and a ring, mixing ancient Colombian emeralds, rubies and diamonds. |
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Everything is adorned with gold, ruby, turquoise, emeralds and more gold. |
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For that reason emeralds are generally more fragile than other beryls and must be handled more gently. |
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With emeralds from Colombia, diamonds from India and enamelling completed in Europe. |
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Each shoe has a delicate ornament of diamonds, rubies and emeralds set in cloisonne. |
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David Warren, the director of Christie's jewellery department, said he had seen many carved emeralds but they were nearly always unmounted. |
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Precious stones include diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, tanzanite, rubies or alexandrite. |
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His collection includes emeralds and spinels of a staggering size. |
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The blue-silver metal was cast in an ornate fashion, and white diamonds spotted with emeralds, beryls and emeralds crusted the edges of the metal. |
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But growing numbers are also venturing farther afield, into gemstones such as rubies, sapphires and emeralds. |
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Do diamonds, emeralds, rubies and all of this very valuable merchandise fall under your jurisdiction? |
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Diamonds, rubies, sapphires or emeralds go beyond the simple transformation of a watch with feminine jewels. |
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Work with a friend, taking turns clicking rows and columns, and uncover treasure such as coins, rubies, and even a few rare emeralds. |
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Aquamarines, which range from cerulean to greenish-blue, tend to have greater clarity than the related emeralds. |
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The cloth was then embellished with cut emeralds sewn onto fabric woven with silver thread. |
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The vase and the flowers themselves are further enlivened by the addition of precious gems, including emeralds, jade, turquoise, and diamonds. |
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In other parts of the war theatre, insurgents engage in timber smuggling, human trafficking and selling emeralds on the black market. |
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There is no uniform nomenclature for describing the clarity or color of sapphires, rubies, or emeralds. |
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Boucheron won the day, and will be auctioning an exquisite brooch of diamonds, rock crystal, topaz and emeralds, with the cash donated to the new foundation. |
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The discovery of precious stones, especially emeralds, some few years ago, has still not given out that sputtering spark to Zambia's ailing economy. |
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Made of diamonds, rubies, emeralds and onyx, it caused a sensation at the Paris exhibition that gave art deco its name, the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs. |
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He ridiculed a beautiful cestus, or clasp of brilliants and emeralds. |
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Pearls, diamonds, emeralds and rubies have remained important. |
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Her diamonds, emeralds and sapphires, in their plush boxes, disappeared from the bedroom drawer, pawned to buy rifles. |
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Highlights include an ornate gold band with emeralds, and an Ostrogothic garnet ring from the late 5th century. |
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Of course there is the truffle-scented soft-boiled egg, a dish symbolic of Juan-Mari's technical nature, and the chocolate emeralds, or wondrously-delicious cocoa bites coated with a perplexing blend of parsley and spinach. |
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When not busy at the mine he would simply ride around his ranch and marvel at its vastness, all his. There was no doubt, though, that emeralds spelled trouble. |
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Sailing a south-easterly course from mainland Greece the avid sailor will come upon the Dodecanese islands, like emeralds glinting in the sun, close to the Turkish coast. |
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Woods cover the mountain slopes down to the seashore and emerge again, splendid and mysterious, on the Gorgona and Gorgonilla islands, emeralds of the Pacific, with the same biodiversity. |
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The sitter's pearls and emeralds, his gold sword hilt and black bristling moustache dazzle in a way that no undecorated sepia print could duplicate. |
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The jewellery historian Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, the show's other co-curator, said most other gems, whether emeralds, diamonds or opals, were subject to the vagaries of fashion. |
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In about 1700, parures consisted of earrings, brooch, necklace or clasp, ring, and sometimes shoulder brooches or buckles, all set with diamonds, either alone or in combination with rubies, topazes, sapphires, or emeralds. |
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Bejewelled with emeralds, sapphires, rubies or diamonds, these watchmaker's jewels reflect the purity with which Perrelet honours the ladies of the world. |
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Some gold placers contain diamonds and other gems such as rubies, sapphires, emeralds, topaz, garnets, etc. Commonly the gems are secondary in value to gold, and in some placers they are so sporadic as to be a curiosity. |
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Much more than that, emeralds made him a billionaire. |
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Colombia has huge tracts of fertile agricultural land, as well as petroleum, natural gas, coal, timber, emeralds, and various precious metals, including one of the largest gold deposits in the world. |
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There are emerald mines there, and we know the value of emeralds. |
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As well as controlling organized crime, paramilitaries control many sectors of the legitimate economy, including mining and trade of emeralds, and some oil and gold producing areas. |
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Thanks to PackshotCreator, we can obtain visuals that bring the best out of precious gemstones such as diamonds, emeralds, sapphire or ruby without relying on a professional photographer. |
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The Opinaca Nord property is located in a geological environment favourable to emeralds, with the proximity of ultramafic intrusive bodies, which could have provided chromium, necessary for emerald formation. |
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The pendants are decorated on both sides, each studded with ten emeralds and garnets on one side and decorated on the other with green, red and blue champlevé enamel with floral and plant decoration. |
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In most cases the objectives of armed conflicts are practical, to control accessibility to natural resources like oil, gas, diamonds, emeralds and timber. |
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The unexamined emeralds cannot be both green and grue, since if they are grue and unexamined they are blue. |
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People gathered here to perform rituals and sacrifices mostly with gold and emeralds. |
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As a result, vanadium emeralds purchased as emeralds in the United States are not recognized as such in the UK and Europe. |
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Faceted emeralds are most commonly given an oval cut, or the signature emerald cut, a rectangular cut with facets around the top edge. |
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Other liquids, including synthetic oils and polymers with refractive indexes close to that of emeralds, such as Opticon, are also used. |
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In the US, emeralds have been found in Connecticut, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, and South Carolina. |
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Gilson's emeralds are usually grown on natural colorless beryl seeds, which are coated on both sides. |
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Later, from 1965 to 1970, the Linde Division of Union Carbide produced completely synthetic emeralds by hydrothermal synthesis. |
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On 17 November the Spaniards sacked the Inca army camp, in which they found great treasures of gold, silver, and emeralds. |
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Using flora and fauna motifs, the young designer dabbled in precious stones like diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls, sapphires and citrines. |
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With her hair in a vintage updo with soft ringlets, the diva was seen in chunky jewellery set in diamonds, gold, pearls, emeralds and rubies. |
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Expanding upon Masato Pearls' extensive line of solely pearl jewelry, the Anteros Collection features precious gems such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and pearls. |
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Yellow and blue are the normal secondary hues found in emeralds. |
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However, in the grading of emeralds, clarity is considered a close second. |
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And neighbor claimed to be of Bogata, There having come, I know not by what way, Did with him speak and solemnly announce A country rich in emeralds and gold. |
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The James King Hill Emerald is headlining an unprecedented exhibition of more than 5000 carats of rare North Carolina emeralds dug from the famous deposits of Hiddenite. |
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This year she took guests on a tour of ancient Egypt with her new collection, which featured emeralds, cats, scarabs and rutilated quartz with sparkling champagne diamonds. |
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They farmed maize, potato, quinoa and cotton, and traded gold, emeralds, blankets, ceramic handicrafts, coca and especially rock salt with neighboring nations. |
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