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In literature the color emerald often evokes vivid natural beauty and emotional intensity. Writers use it to describe everything from the lush “emerald leaves” rustling in sunlight [1] and the “brilliant emerald green of the sward” [2] to the mysterious “emerald gloom” filtering through ancient orchards [3]. Emerald is not confined to nature alone; it colors characters and objects as well, as when eyes are described as “wise emerald” [4] or “liquid emerald” that hold depths of feeling [5, 6]. In other instances, the word enhances imagery by transforming landscapes—a fleet of “emerald giants” turns to ghostly white under a deadly fate [7], or a waterfall “emerald flooded” a rugged rock face [8]. Even in more subtle touches, such as “emerald threads” woven into court gowns [9] or settings where “roads… with emerald settings” catch the eye [10], the color emerald infuses scenes with both enchantment and symbolism.

I’m going where the orange glows, Like gold, thro’ the emerald leaves, love; I’m going where its richest rose The laughing summer weaves, love.
— from The Boys' And Girls' Library Containing a Variety of Useful and Instructive Reading, Selected from Eminent Writers for Youth
[20] sea, whose sombreness was emphasised by the brilliant emerald green of the sward which fell from where we stood to the jagged cliff-line.
— from The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker
She asked it out in the orchard, in the emerald gloom of a long arcade of stout old trees that Grandfather Ingelow had planted fifty years ago.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Or was it the wise emerald eyes of the little golden Goddess that trapped me?
— from Valley of the Croen by Lee Tarbell
Their deep eyes of liquid emerald have their flashes.
— from A Tour Through the Pyrenees by Hippolyte Taine
UNDER THE ARC-LIGHT Then tragedy's emerald eyes glared suddenly at Amory over the edge of June.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yet here, too, the deadly insect will come, in scarce half a dozen years, to turn those emerald giants into staring white ghosts.
— from The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania by E. (Emily) Gerard
Down he dived, groped, found justification in the arching rock, emerald flooded, struck boldly through it, and rose to the surface beyond.
— from The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman
With these emerald threads we are weaving cloth to make Ozma a splendid court gown for her birthday.
— from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
These villages were speedily surrounded by the green fields of husbandmen, until those roads were like necklaces of steel with emerald settings.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

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