Literary notes about amethyst (AI summary)
In literature the color amethyst is often used to evoke a sense of mystique and opulent beauty. Writers describe everything from fluttering, amethyst‐coloured angel wings ([1]) and rich, jewel-toned adornments on clothing ([2], [3]) to entire landscapes bathed in its gentle glow—whether in the shimmering mist over a valley ([4]) or the smooth transition of silk-like hues in the sky ([5]). Amethyst not only appears as a vivid shade in lists of resplendent gems ([6], [7]), but it also colors ethereal architectural visions, such as flawless arches and enchanted altars ([8], [9]), creating an atmosphere that is at once both luxurious and dreamlike ([10], [11]).
- So this is the angel with the amethyst-coloured wing?
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor - She was a tall girl, exquisitely dressed, from the fine silk of her horned cap to the amethyst buckles on her Spanish shoes.
— from The Path of the King by John Buchan - He also wore a cloak of very fine purple cloth, lined with crimson velvet, crimson stockings, and an immense amethyst ring.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca - It was almost sunset, and the far Chelan peaks were touched with Alpine fire; below them an amethyst mist filtered over the transformed vale.
— from The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson - The sun set, dew began to fall; the river changed, and grew whiter; the sky paled to the colour of an amethyst; shadows lengthened, dissolved slowly.
— from Saint's Progress by John Galsworthy - There are fifty thousand jewels on the Tower, of five colors—canary, amethyst, ruby, aquamarine, and white.
— from What We Saw at Madame World's Fair Being a Series of Letters from the Twins at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to Their Cousins at Home by Elizabeth Gordon - The sea was like satin for smoothness, absolutely waveless, and shone with the colors of changeable silk, blue, green, pink, and amethyst.
— from Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy, Sicily, and Greece, Part Two - Where a long inlet of sea reached in and touched the feet of the hanging gardens the stars showed like glow-worms, emerald in a floor of amethyst.
— from The Blue Moon by Laurence Housman - And with his waves that water kissed The gleaming altars of amethyst
— from Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode by Andrew Lang - The fountain jets Its flood of blood, And the moss that it wets Is an amethyst flame of violets.
— from Household Gods A Comedy by Aleister Crowley - AMETHYST “ The purple streaming amethyst is thine. ”
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky
