"Any other article" was a phrase delicately implying jewellery, and more particularly some purple amethysts costing thirty pounds, which Lydgate had bought as a bridal present.
It was no great collection, but a few of the ornaments were really of remarkable beauty, the finest that was obvious at first being a necklace of purple amethysts set in exquisite gold work, and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it.
Diana and I make necklaces of roseberries but what are roseberries compared to amethysts?
It was an old-fashioned oval, containing a braid of her mother's hair, surrounded by a border of very fine amethysts.
At sunrise they looked like a cluster of emeralds, at sunset like a cluster of amethysts.
The girl slid the gilded sandals onto her feet, while the old woman fixed the tiara in her hair, ,, and slid golden bracelets crusted with amethysts around her wrists.
