Thesaurus / jade
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Frey was watching her and then he was glancing sideways to a little jade box that held cigarettes.
She blinked some more and then she reached out to the little jade box and took a cigarette.
Kano sat as she had left him, motionless, now, as the white jade vase within the tokonoma.
THE DRAGON PAINTERMARY MCNEIL FENOLLOSA
Here are found richly hand-carved furniture, splendid jade and malachite vases.
WAYS OF WAR AND PEACEDELIA AUSTRIAN
And so staid without a good while, and saw my Lady Peters, an impudent jade, soliciting all the Lords on her behalf.
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, COMPLETESAMUEL PEPYS
For her wept every dame, for her wept every maid, All wept save Sophia, that vile wicked jade.
A tiny arrow, tipped with a jade point, and tufted with feathers, quivered in the plaster.
THE ARGUS PHEASANTJOHN CHARLES BEECHAM
Many of these knives have silica blades, some of the handles being of jade.
CHATS ON HOUSEHOLD CURIOSFRED W. BURGESS
The 'jade' referred to was the nabob's only daughter and heiress, who was, as all the town knew, to make a great match.
THE YEOMAN ADVENTURERGEORGE W. GOUGH
After some experience of the horse's paces, the king declared, "It was the heaviest, dull jade he ever bestrode."
WORDS RELATED TO JADE
- abrade
- be worthless
- become threadbare
- become worn
- chafe
- consume
- crumble
- cut down
- decay
- decline
- decrease
- deteriorate
- diminish
- drain
- dwindle
- erode
- exhaust
- fade
- fatigue
- fray
- gall
- go to seed
- graze
- grind
- impair
- jade
- overuse
- overwork
- rub
- scrape
- scrape off
- scuff
- shrink
- tax
- tire
- use up
- wash away
- waste
- wear out
- wear thin
- weary
- weather
- annoy
- bore
- burden
- cause ennui
- cloy
- debilitate
- depress
- disgust
- dishearten
- distress
- drain
- droop
- drowse
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exasperate
- exhaust
- fade
- fag
- fail
- fall off
- fatigue
- flag
- glut
- grow tired
- harass
- have had enough
- irk
- jade
- leave one cold
- lose interest
- make discontented
- nauseate
- oppress
- overwork
- pain
- plague
- sap
- sicken
- sink
- strain
- take it out of
- tax
- tire
- tire out
- try the patience of
- tucker out
- vex
- weaken
- wear down
- wear out
- weigh
- abrade
- be worthless
- become threadbare
- become worn
- chafe
- consume
- crumble
- cut down
- decay
- decline
- decrease
- deteriorate
- diminish
- drain
- dwindle
- erode
- exhaust
- fade
- fatigue
- fray
- gall
- go to seed
- graze
- grind
- impair
- jade
- overuse
- overwork
- rub
- scrape
- scrape off
- scuff
- shrink
- tax
- tire
- use up
- wash away
- waste
- wear out
- wear thin
- weary
- weather
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