'Your dear grandmother gave you the amethysts to be reset; and of course she would wish it to be done in an artistic manner.

" She took a necklace from the box, composed of a single string of small, beautiful pearls, from which hung an egg-shaped amethyst of pure violet.

On alabaster tables lay amethysts, topazes, rubies, beryls, and all other precious stones, wrought by the hands of skilful artists, beyond power of computation.

Those indescribable dawns upon the Yann came up like flames in some land over the hills where a magician burns by secret means enormous amethysts in a copper pot.

Others than I must describe how it swept from the amethyst cliff the shadow of the black one that opposed it, how that one shaft of sunlight pierced the amethyst for leagues, and how the rejoicing colour leaped up to welcome the light and shot back a purple glow on the walls of the palace of ivory while down in that incredible ravine the golden dragons still played in the darkness.

Were it your pleasure to purchase an amethyst or a ruby, gallant Signore, there might possibly be dealings between us?"

The idea of his charging me three hundred guineas for re-setting those stupid old amethysts.' 'My dear, you would have diamonds mixed with them,' said Lady Kirkbank, reproachfully.

He lifted his hand on which shone his great amethyst, and at the motion, scarcely knowing what he did, the priest was on his knees.