topazine

[toh-puhz-in, toh-puhz-ahyn]

adjective

1. resembling the gem topaz in color.

Example Sentences

Golden green; throat shining emerald green; middle of the breast and body black; lateral tail feathers beneath topazine; bill recurved.

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Vapours enchant the distances, bathing peaks in bewitchments of blue and grey of a hundred tones, transforming naked cliffs to amethyst, stretching spectral gauzes across the topazine morning, magnifying the splendour of noon by effacing the horizon, filling the evening with smoke of gold, bronzing the waters, banding the sundown with ghostly purple and green of nacre.

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I cry out again, for the way is long, and the sun sinking,—sinking in the softest imaginable glow of topazine light.

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How the emerald and the topazine eyes glow then!—they are flames!

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