Literary notes about sparkling sapphire (AI summary)
In literary descriptions, "sparkling sapphire" is frequently employed as a vivid color to evoke a sense of luminous, almost otherworldly clarity in natural scenes. For instance, it is used to depict bodies of water with a radiant, translucent quality—as seen in a yacht gliding through “smooth sparkling sapphire waters” [1] and in the imagery of a great lake likened to a “great sparkling sapphire” [2]. The color also enhances the portrayal of the sea, described as a “sparkling sapphire sea” [3], and is evocatively applied to the Mediterranean, suggesting both depth and brilliance in its hue [4, 5]. In these cases, the term transcends mere description, imbuing the scenes with an almost magical sparkle that emphasizes beauty and intensity.
- she said, as her yacht glided out of its harbour and bore southward through smooth sparkling sapphire waters.
— from Othmar by Ouida - Blue Lake Geneva!—blue as a woman’s eye, blue as the vault of heaven, dropped into the lap of the green earth like a great sparkling sapphire!
— from Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin - Here the sparkling sapphire sea; here the turf blazing with poppies; here the quiet pine road to Damascus; here the forests, excellent with cedars.
— from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne - And I thought of the sparkling sapphire of the Mediterranean and the cool translucencies of Cuckoo-weir. . . .
— from Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown - The sea was blue as a plain of sparkling sapphire—quite Mediterraneanic!
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
