Sentence examples for amber as from inspiring English sources

Amid the tourist tat you will find some excellent contemporary jewellers working in the local speciality, amber, as well as gold and silver.

He recites colorful stories of successive waves of traders — Ukrainians (who traded for Black Sea shells and Baltic amber as long as 18,000 years ago), Phoenicians, Mongols, Arabs, Italians — who brought early globalization.

There amongst the foliage (filmed at the Eden Project in Cornwall) he finds frozen images of Simon and Amber, as well as a mysterious angel-like figure Marinus (Claron McFadden); it turns out that the whole garden is an "occult engine" built by Zenna for those who are poised between life and death; it's where their souls and memories are converted for immortality, leaving their bodies as moths.

Today, long after most of us ceased reading her poetry, a small crowd is regularly to be found standing before her image at the National Portrait Gallery (she was painted by Wyndham Lewis and Roger Fry, and photographed by Cecil Beaton), and at the V&A people still stare, dumbfounded, at her rings: aquamarines the size of puddles, hunks of amber as big as a cottage loaves.

This applies to several chalices and tankards and one small monument carved from serpentine or rock crystal, a silver-mounted emu egg and a small box made of blocks of amber, as well as a beautiful Asmat ancestor skull, decorated with seeds, feathers and shell; three bronzes of tiny lizards cast from life; and a model boat from the Spice Islands Indonesiaa) made entirely of dried cloves.

But he didn't look in amber, as had a group of researchers that retrieved live 27-million-year-old bacteria in 1995; instead, he tried salt crystals, which, like amber, can create very stable and protective environments.

There is also increasing interest in the use of ambers as chemotaxonomic indicators.

If it is correct that C17 is retained in mature Class I ambers as a methyl group, then this implies that isomerization of the initial exomethylene structure is an early step in the maturation of these materials.

Py-GC/MS using HMDS as a silylating agent enabled us not only to identify the geographical origin of the archaeological and artistic ambers as succinites, but also highlighted the degradation of amber objects revealing a lower abundance of free diterpenes on the surface.

These data indicate that the residual double bond present in mature Class I ambers is not located in the A/B ring structure of these materials and that C17 of the original labdanoid precursors is retained in mature Class I ambers as a methyl group.

For certain well-briefed troops on the scene, the Amber Room was as obvious as a beacon.