Word: jades
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...reason why he should not be one of the happiest inhabitants of heaven. There's so much work to be done. He will look at the streets of gold and the many mansions of jade and jasper and then if Hood carries with him something of his mortality he'll say 'Not that, let's have steel and glass.' And if he is still the man he was, which I most fervently believe, already the riveting machines have begun their fanfare within the pearly gates...
...Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought from a circular piece of hematite; a beautiful jade head in the grave of a sacrificed child...
When Arthur W. Fuchs, Eastman's x-ray expert, took the picture, the girl was wearing a white cotton dress. Visible were her jewelry: a necklace and pendant of gold and jade, a white-gold wrist watch, a silver bracelet, two rings, an earring...
...marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls. The Emperor and his court hunted deer and boar in the rolling hills of its great park while the imperial ladies went boating on its lotus-covered lakes in barges. When the great Kang Hsi, sometimes rated above his contemporaries Louis...
...carpenters had built a small replica of Peiping's great open air Altar of Heaven with its ceremonial steps. Ready, too, was an imperial throne of ebony, carved with dragons and orchids. Tailors embroidered robes of imperial yellow and jewelers had carved a Ju Yee or sceptre of jade. Since meteorologists announced that the temperature was likely to be about 20 below zero the enthronement ceremony was advanced from sunrise to noon. For many hours Henry in his yellow robe must make his obeisance to his illustrious ancestors while mandarins kowtow and the traditional orchestra in mushroom hats...