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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.
I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.
I saw something in his pretty green eyes that I had never seen before: Anger. They were like emerald fire
I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.
Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.
Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.
