I was glad to be back in California anyway, even if I am missing the fire-opal water at Shark Beach and schmoopily watching grainy videos of Peter Allen singing “Tenterfield Saddler.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
After momentary hesitation I also stole Big Guy's platinum ring inset with a fire-opal cabochon, slipping it on my own elongated alien finger. ❋ May, Julian (2001)
She hesitated a moment, standing before him, the hood of her capote, with its rich purple, dropping from the fluttering yellow hair that the moonlight deepened into gold, and the fire-opal clasp rising and falling with her breath, like an imprisoned flame. ❋ Various (N/A)
The sun dipped behind the encircling hills; the west blazed with the lambent flame of fire-opal; the wonderful translucent blue of the sky shaded suddenly to deep purple lanced by great shafts of mauve and amethyst light, and in the east stars popped out; the hills shone like huge, crude gems -- sapphire, jade, jasper, malachite, chalcedony -- their valleys swimming with mists of mother-of-pearl .... ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
But there was Kitty's great fire-opal, glowing like a coal on her breast, seeming to breathe as she breathed. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
"Because she's a fire-opal, and to the world at large they bring bad luck." ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
All the atmosphere swam with changing colours, such as come and go in the heart of a fire-opal. ❋ Unknown (1901)
Aldrich is always brilliant; he can't help it; he is a fire-opal set round with rose diamonds; when he is not speaking you know that his dainty fancies are twinkling and glimmering around in him; when he speaks the diamonds flash. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)
Otherwise the great reddish-ochre areas are absolutely bare; of that pale fire-opal hue which marks our own deserts seen from far. ❋ Unknown (1895)
The brilliant blue water sparkles under the hot sun, or adds one more tint to the exquisite hues which make of the sky one vast, gleaming fire-opal on those marvelous "white nights" when darkness never descends to a depth beyond the point where it leaves all objects with natural forms and colors, and only spiritualizes them with the gentle vagueness of a translucent veil. ❋ Isabel Florence Hapgood (1889)
Aldrich was always brilliant, he couldn't help it, he is a fire-opal set round with rose diamonds; when he is not speaking, you know that his dainty fancies are twinkling and glimmering around in him; when he speaks the diamonds flash. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
She could see it far up, glowing as red as her fire-opal in the light of the embers. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
"I got up there, did a tap dance, sang my song, smiled, and then when the audience started applauding, I knew this was something I would always love," said the 6-foot 5 inch, fire-opal red-haired talent. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Aldrich is always brilliant; he can’t help it; he is a fire-opal set round with rose diamonds; when he is not speaking you know that his dainty fancies are twinkling and glimmering around in him; when he speaks the diamonds flash. ❋ Unknown (2003)
