Confusion is rendered still worse by the fact that the ancients whilst in some cases using the same names as ourselves, applied them to different stones; thus their "hyacinth" is our "sapphire," whilst their "sapphire" is our "lapis lazuli".英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
Compared unto the sounding of that lyre
Wherewith was crowned the sapphire beautiful,
Which gives the clearest heaven its sapphire hue.英文原著 · 《Paradiso》
Then he strapped up the portmanteau, pushed it under the bed, went out and locked the door. He asked the chief steward to put a man in the corridor to see that no one went into his room while he was out. Then he got the sapphires out of the safe and went over to the Ritz. He met Mrs. Farmingham in the corridor coming out to her carriage. "Ah, Mr. Hargrave," she said, "here you are. I just told the clerk to call you up and tell you to bring the sapphires over in the morning when you came for the draft.英文原著 · 《The Sleuth of St. James Street》
One dead flat sapphire, void of wrath or glee,
Through bay on bay shone blind from bank to bank
The weary Mediterranean, drear to see.英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
Through the tower window and the ivy closing round it, the blueness of the summer sky was heavenly fair; soft, and light white clouds floated across the clearness of its sapphire. On this Anne's eyes were fixed with an uplifted tenderness until she broke her silence.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"Oh, but this won't do...bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang...night's candles are burnt out... glowed with living sapphires. leaving their moon-loved maze...antique roots fantastic... antique roots wreathed high...what is it in As You Like It?"英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》