Literary authors often employ aquamarine as an evocative color that melds hints of blue and green to conjure images of water, sky, and ethereal ambience. In many works, aquamarine describes the shifting hues of natural scenery—for instance, the Pacific is depicted as fringed with aquamarine light ([1]), while skies take on a pale aquamarine tint that infuses the atmosphere with a dreamlike quality ([2], [3]). The color also colors human experience and objects, as seen in the description of a cloudy aquamarine silk costume ([4]) and even aquamarine hair that hints at hidden depths ([5]). At times, aquamarine suggests more abstract qualities, conveying moods of clarity, hope, and even surreal transformation—from the serene twilight ambiance ([6]) to a central, enigmatic nightmare ([7]). Thus, aquamarine in literature functions not only to define visual settings but also to imbue scenes with layered emotional resonance.
- 10,000 feet below, the aquamarine Pacific fringes Maui with white surf.
— from Hawaii National Park: A Guide for the Haleakala Section, Island of Maui, Hawaii by George Cornelius Ruhle
- The sky above was of that pale aquamarine tint that ballroom poets rhyme with "true" and "Sue" and "coo."
— from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
- Michael gazed pensively at two slender, snakelike Difdans writhing "Only 99 Shopping Days Till Christmas" across an aquamarine sky.
— from Tea Tray in the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith
- Her costume was of silk, of a cloudy aquamarine colour, with square-cut bodice.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No.690
March 17, 1877 by Various
- Now that he was close, her aquamarine hair showed dark at the roots, and, through the thick golden maquillage, the pores stood out on her nose.
— from Never Come Midnight by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold
- We sat in the aquamarine twilight, and Fern was shivering, and I put my arm around her.
— from Exploiter's End by James Causey
- The glimpse was like stepping from a dark dream into the center of an aquamarine nightmare.
— from Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China by George F. (George Frank) Worts