Read full poem →Adair Madeline 6040LawtnAv .....HUmbit 3-429
Adair Opal 1769-36thAv ... ... KEllog 4-1784
Adair Pearl 5690 SnPabloAv .Pledmt 5-4490-
Dictionary Entry
A mineral consisting, like quartz, of silica, but inferior to quartz in hardness and specific gravity, of the chemical formula SiO2·nH2O.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. opalglass opalring opalsaid opalopal blackopal preciousopal fire
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Poetry examples for “opal”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →THE sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
Read full poem →THE sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky
Burned like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair
Read full poem →So on thy broad mystic van
Lie the opal-coloured days,
And waft the miracle to man.
Read full poem →apostrophized in Collins and Joseph Warton. For Gray the hour when the
sky turns from opal to dusk leaves one not "breathless with
adoration," but moved calmly to placid reflection tuned to drowsy