She was not going to ask him how he came to be so mighty wise about chalcedony and chrysoprase and sardonyx, about which she herself either never knew or had forgotten.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
There pure emerald melted and changed in subtle gradations to jade green and beryl green; from pale chrysoprase to dark malachite no stone of price could deny its name to colourings else matchless.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
I do not think, the eye is disappointed, even at first sight: after being fully prepared by Church's vivid picture-a very triumph of transparent coloring-you still stand dumb in honest admiration of that one miracle in the midst of wonders-the central curve of the Horse-shoe-where the main current plunges over the verge, without a ripple to break the grandeur of the clear, smooth chrysoprase, flashing back the sunlight through a filmy lace-work of foam.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence