Literary notes about fire opal (AI summary)
In literature, the color “fire opal” is often invoked as a vivid simile to convey a sense of brilliant, shifting luminosity and passion. Authors use its dynamic mélange of red, orange, and yellow tones to evoke images of a sky ablaze with color—as when a landscape or sunset is compared to a fire opal’s glowing depths ([1], [2], [3]). This imagery extends to light and even human emotion, where a character’s eyes or aura might mirror the gem’s iridescence and lively play of hues ([4], [5], [6], [7]). In such descriptions, the fire opal becomes a metaphor for transformation, intensity, and the ephemeral quality of beauty—a spark that glows and shifts with every nuance of mood and light ([8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13]).
- Clear-cut, lovely peaks sprang toward a sky that was like fire opal with turquoise glowing blue behind it.
— from The Port of Adventure by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson - South and west the sky flamed, like the heart of a fire opal, through a veil fine as gauze—dust no longer; but the aura of Jaipur.
— from Far to SeekA Romance of England and India by Maud Diver - Like a fire opal the sun rose out of the sea, its first rays dissipating the ghostlike wisps of fog that drifted over the water.
— from Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee - Its cuticle is so ruled with fine lines as to diffract the light and flash on moving much as a fire opal.
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey - The light looked like the glow of a wonderful fire opal, set in the inky blackness of the sky.
— from Lost in the Cañon The Story of Sam Willett's Adventures on the Great Colorado of the West by A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) Calhoun - It lights up better than a fire opal."
— from The Runaway Asteroid by Michael D. Cooper - " "What's that about crackers?" inquired the tutor, sharply, his eyes changing colour like a fire opal.
— from The Brownies and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Indeed, like the fire opal, it shines with a million different lights, changing with the mood of the wearer.
— from The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. (Manly Palmer) Hall - At twelve the myriad lights of Cleveland appeared, crossed and recrossed below them, like chains of diamonds and fire opals.
— from The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible by Hugh McAlister - The air was like amethyst, the setting sun a fire opal.
— from The Moccasin Maker by E. Pauline Johnson - It was like being held within a fire opal—so brilliant, so flashing, was it.
— from The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt - The woods became a fire opal—opaque in smoke, with the red glint of innumerable trees glowing in gleaming strata, marking the course of the wind.
— from The Lady of Big Shanty by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith - The trunks had arrived, and Mary Virginia changed into white, in which she glowed and sparkled like a fire opal.
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
