amethyst colors

Literary analysis:

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

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