Compare the description of gulls at Notebook M p.132 and see the comment at Works, 3.659 [n/a] on the ‘transparent chrysoprase green’ of that part of a wave though which the sunlight shines. At Works, 3.17 [n/a] and Works, 3.18 [n/a] Ruskin expresses his contempt for those who need to look up in a dictionary a word used of the walls of the New Jerusalem in one of the most important chapters of the Bible Revelation XXI.20.
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