1 Some red star had come too close to the earth.
2 The star of the Garter glittered upon his breast.
3 Cloudless, and pierced by one solitary star, a copper-green sky gleamed through the windows.
4 When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell.
5 The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.
6 She brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses.
7 In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars.
8 The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac-blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air.
9 The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian.
10 But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.
11 He would often spend a whole day settling and resettling in their cases the various stones that he had collected, such as the olive-green chrysoberyl that turns red by lamplight, the cymophane with its wirelike line of silver, the pistachio-coloured peridot, rose-pink and wine-yellow topazes, carbuncles of fiery scarlet with tremulous, four-rayed stars, flame-red cinnamon-stones, orange and violet spinels, and amethysts with their alternate layers of ruby and sapphire.