Example Sentences

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Those parma violets, I smelt, fabrics, an ambery perfume, and something rotting.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Another thing sometimes to be seen is the ambery, or aumbry, a small cupboard let into the chancel wall, in which were kept the communion vessels, the chalice, paten, etc.

From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Heath, Sidney

Looking southwards, some holland screens barred half of the nave, which showed ambery in the sunlight and was speckled at both ends by the dazzling blue and crimson of stained-glass windows.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

He saw another pair of eyes gazing out at him They were ambery eyes, as he called them— just what was to be expected from a star.

From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Blackwood, Algernon