Word: jadedly
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...noises under the sea, and sounds overhead in a clear sky. Then you find your island alive with hot, moist orchids that make months at you and can do everything except talk. There's a waterfall in it three hundred feet high, just like a sliver of green jade laced with silver; and millions of wild bees live up in the rocks; and you can hear the fat cocoanuts falling from the palms...
...College Library has just received from the estate of Heber R. Bishop '91 two very valuable books, one entitled "Investigations and Studies in Jade," the other a catalogue of the 900 specimens of jade which were collected by Mr. Bishop from all over the world. The two volumes are elaborately illustrated with watercolors, copperplates, lithographs, and woodcuts. It is the intention of the estate to present the 100 existing copies of these works to the leading libraries of the world. The collection of jade is at present in the Metropolitan Museum in New York...
...been entirely devoted to an exhibit of various collections which have been brought from Central America as a result of these explorations. These include very important sculptures in stone, some of them fine specimens, besides a great many articles in pottery, bone, shell, etc., including a number of jade ornaments and carvings. The floor of this room is literally crowded with casts which are exact reproductions of great monuments, idols and altars from the ruins of Copan...
...That fickle jade, Fortune, has used me quite well...
...Hope! You flirt, you giddy jade...