Which preposition to use with amber
The air was balmy and fragrant, and against the amber of the western sky rose and fell numberless little clouds of insects.
Christophorus Ayrerus prefers bezoar stone, and the confection of alkermes, before other cordials, and amber in some cases.
The legenddoubtless a very ancient onethat the sisters of Phaeton wept amber for his fall belongs to the same order of ideas (as a learned friend suggests to me).
Then a morning clear and soft, Amber on the purple hills; Warm high day of summer, oft Cooled by wandering windy rills.
The custome in Babylon, as wel inward as outward, is in this maner: Small wares at 6 per 100, Coral and amber at 5 and a halfe per 100, Venice cloth, English cloth, Kersies, Mockairs, Chamblets, Silks, Veluets, Damasks, Sattins and such like at 5 per 100: and they rate the goods without reason as they lust themselues.
'All about it are ornaments of amber from the North and carven chalices of the dark brown Northern crystal, and on its floors lie furs from Baltic shores.
Amber meantfor a professor.
Many bark canoes were upturned upon the beach, and, by that light, of almost the same amber as the lodges.