Crossword-Solution: SAPPHIRES 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

There was nothing subtle or hidden about her charms; her beauty was all there, flaming and apparent: the spun-gold hair that comb nor confining pin could restrain; the blue eyes that were like nothing but sapphires; two lips that pouted, that were so red one could only think of cherries or some other delicious crimson fruit in looking at them.

Valentin had learned by his inquiries that morning that a Father Brown from Essex was bringing up a silver cross with sapphires, a relic of considerable value, to show some of the foreign priests at the congress.

And I paused, held my breath in such silence, and listened apart; And the tent shook, for mighty Saul shuddered: and sparkles ‘gan dart From the jewels that woke in his turban at once with a start All its lordly male-sapphires, and rubies courageous at heart.

Her gayety may have had some inspiration in her daring, for round her throat she wore a miraculously slender chain of gold and enamel, with a pendant of minute pale sapphires scrolled about a rather large and very white diamond.

The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.