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Definition of jade:

  • (noun) a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish;
  • (noun) a woman adulterer
  • (noun) a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
  • (noun) an old or over-worked horse
  • (verb) get tired of something or somebody
  • (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress;
  • (adjective) of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

Sentence Examples:

Presently, we saw the horseman turn off at right angles; the jaded colts hesitated, trotted a few yards, and stood still.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

Lydia's drawing-room was brilliant with vermilion lacquer, jade, rock crystal, a Chinese painting or two and huge cushioned armchairs and sofas.

How refreshing was the contemplation of such scenes and people to the jaded minds of the English, so long doomed to mediocre monotony!

Every man's door flies open when she knocks, and if it should chance to remain shut the jade creeps in through the crevices.

Room was found inside for the latter, a stout, motherly old creature, into whose beaming face it did jaded mortals good to look.

They're harassed and preyed upon by police, jaded social workers and psychotic killers, or just beaten and abused by the ?fatherly' pimps.

You have feeling enough to give other women sets of jade and jewels, and to run around with every silly little snip you meet.

The color of jade presents various shades of green, yellow and gray, and the mineral when polished has a rather greasy luster.

Certainly, the story as a whole succeeds in interesting and amusing the most jaded reader; it is wholesome, healthful, breezy, and airy.

She was a new sort of girl, this Betty, whose childhood he had loathed, and, to his jaded taste, novelty appealed enormously.

And every divinity has eyes of jade, or of white plaster, hideously visible against the pale gray stone softly polished by time.

His deep-sunk eyes were topaz gold, shot through with jetting bits of white, and his startled lips were purple as fire-shot jade.

The world was unnaturally silent, the pines about them like carvings in jade, without a tremor, the sunlight falling softly about them.

Was it not enough to follow those nine ragged jades the muses, but you must fasten on some earth-born mistress as poor as them?

The mama toad has four little baby toads, equally in jade, one perched on her head, the other three playing about under her.

Hitherto I had been the contented occupant of an old yellow coach, and had been satisfied with the pace of two jaded post-horses.

She is an agreeable and good woman, unfortunately a bit jaded by frivolous reading, and by association with the dandies of the capital.

One wonders how Europeans stand the heat, as few cool breezes blow in the hot sections of that country to refresh the jaded.

One of the craftiest jades in the pack, placed herself presently upon the threshold, and made her address to my guide and me.

It provides a grand scenic route for the jaded continental traveler that furnishes scenery as grandly picturesque as anywhere else in the world.

It is all very well to be industrious; but remember, the brain wants rest, and you cannot learn properly when you are jaded.

A certain indifference, spiced with occasional contempt and not infrequent insolence, is what those of jaded appetite look for in any permanent companion.

We helped her to undress, and I, as usual, put away her jewels, and noticed she wore only one pair of jade bracelets to sleep.

Harriet Kennedy would have dressed her in jade green to match her eyes, and with long jade earrings, and made her a fashion.

From every hand her senses snatched up and conveyed to her innumerable impressions, each of which became a dull excitation to her jaded imagination.

The discovery of the fact set his jaded nerves to tingling with a pleasant thrill even as he realized the awkwardness of the situation.

Jaded with the monotony of the business, and with the repeated effort of greeting half-known people, he felt barren and rather irritable.

The horses were jaded and worn, the roads were rough with boulders and stumps of trees, or furrowed with ruts and quagmires.

It did not show its teeth, nor exhibit any sign of irritation, but seemed jaded and sulky, and was observing me steadily.

Before dinner is half over, palates are jaded, "fine shades" can no more be appreciated, every new course awakens fear of the morrow's indigestion.

Hosts of waiting-maids brought in profuse quantities of wine and meats, with bowls and cups of jade or gold, till the table glittered again.

Make me as unyielding as the goddesses of jade, who keep their eyes lowered that they may not see the things of this world!

There was no choice, therefore, but to rest the jaded beasts at the wretched little tavern on the heath, called 'Drunkards all.'

Ella thought of her enjoyment with a whimsical feeling of shame, a touch of disappointment at not being as jaded as she had expected.

I would not willingly displace the impression that I now carry away for one which would be made on a fatigued and jaded attention.

He even characterizes the Tragedy as an attempt 'to freshen a jaded mind by diverting it to the healthy natures of a grand epoch.'

Below the dark pall the sky of the horizon glowed bright and clear as jade over the deepening line of the distant waters.

When Chinese gentlemen meet for pleasure, they talk of poetry and the wisdom of the sages, of rare jade and porcelains and brass.

A kiss in which his eyes were blind to the enchantment of the jade light about them, his ears deaf to brook and rustling forest.

He was conscious chiefly that he felt marred somehow, jaded, harassed by life, smeared by his experience of living in a gentlemanly jail.

The Jade Points and Flints are very carefully wrought, and suggest rather the idea of selection as symbols than of ordinary warlike implements.

First he courted science; but she had proved a fickle jade, and he was forced to become an entertainer, much against his inclination.

She was looking pale and jaded, not at all at her best, but her eyes were blankly unknowing and clear of all embarrassment.

Was it going to be the fantasy-bound Sarah of her girlhood, perhaps the same Sarah who'd spun out some stuttering vision of a jade mask?

She stood there for a moment, breathing in the crisp October air which was infinitely refreshing to one in her slightly jaded state.

Ornate with jewels - diamonds and rubies, sapphires and amethyst, green jade and blue turquoise - it held the treasures of the world.

Some of them were fickle jades who would let us almost touch them, and would then sniff at us in disapproval and leave us.

The women, for the most part, went in for tortoise-shell combs, fringed silk shawls, jade earrings, beaded bags, and coral neck chains.

They immediately quickened the pace of their horses, but being jaded with the day's journey, the bear was soon seen to gain upon them.

At the far end, above a marble altar, coiled a dragon with tusks of ivory and scales of jade, its eyes two lustrous pearls.

The jaded lassitude usually attendant on immediately awakening out of a day sleep to those who seldom indulge in one was upon this man.

It was a line of jaded men staggering under the burdens on their heads through an apparently interminable sea of scorched and dusty grass.

It takes a charge in force over the top or something equally vivid and spectacular to whet up the jaded mentality of the onlooker.

Within my brain she was always dancing, dancing, and the jaded eyes of Paris grew young with greed of her sensational perfection.

He appeared, too, to be jaded and exhausted; which he indeed must be, after the fatigue and excitement without intermission of the last fortnight.

Apparently, the supreme necessity is to show yourself, to win the pestered and rather jaded eye of a crowd, if only for an instant.

To him that moment decided the flight from active life to which his hopeless thoughts had of late been wooing the jaded, weary man.

The composing-room of a large daily paper, for instance, presents, day and night, a spectacle of the almost ceaseless industry of jaded operatives.

His cast-off horses still took prizes, and a jade distinguished by his notice was eagerly sought by the young bloods of the town.

There were casters of bronze vessels, and workers in gold, silver, and iron; jade and other stones were cut and polished for ornaments.

The air was clear and cold, ideal mushing weather, and already parties were beginning to struggle into Bennett, looking very weary and jaded.

When, however, all danger of pursuit was over, Dick drew rein, and proceeded more leisurely, in order to relieve his now jaded steed.

She who had once crossed those very plains behind a jaded team now felt that the rushing train was crawling like a snail.

Before a billow broke it climbed to a tip of that sea-water green more ineffable than any of the greens of grass, jades, or emeralds.

These, and a hundred other fragrances mingled together in infinitely varying combinations, give sensuous joys which even the most jaded can but appreciate.

Even Prince Demetrius, who knew more than most men of the favors of the fickle jade, was impressed by the decisions of Fortune.

There they both lay until combining their courage, they crept fearfully backward beyond the range of the vision of those green jade eyes.

He was jaded, defeated, as if some power outside of himself had taken him unexpectedly at advantage to-night, and wrung this thing from him.

She attacked me with a carving-knife, and, when I had disarmed her, the jade bit off a couple of fingers from my left hand.

Another party coming in were beating their jaded horses to a run, the men jumping beside the team mad with joy, shouting like maniacs.

The oceanic swell had decreased to a languid and glassy beat, and the water had become jade green in color, shot with turquoise gleams.

It was a hot night in July, worried and jaded, after a wearisome debate in the Reichstag, the Baron walked through the empty streets.

She rose and stood before him in the rosy glow of the fire that bathed her limbs until they glowed like jade and porphyry.

She very naturally attributed his jaded looks to overwork, and he had been able to mask his feelings, except at that one dreadful moment.

Another, not deigning to dance, only moved; while her poor partner was seen helping her in, like a tired jade to the distance post.

The one delightful and exquisite balm to our jaded minds is the music of the organs, which accompanies the singing of hymns by convicts.

He was after Hell-on-Wheels, and he did not intend to inject new life into the jaded survivors by the slaughter of their beaten companions.

Along comes your newspaper critic to the first night, with a somewhat exalted standard of taste, a jaded appetite, and a reputation for wit.

Some of these have open-work borders, others are decorated in relief, and the designs are tinted with delicate jade greens, dark blues, or salmon pinks.

This pharmacist will exorcise his pain-demon; that electrician place him en rapport with kindred hundreds of miles away, or fortify his jaded nerves.

Pale, jaded, in her thin gray dress, haggard and hardly beautiful, Helen was full of apathetic power, and Helen was interested in nobody.

The horses were jaded and worn, and the roads were rough with boulders and stumps of trees, or furrowed with ruts and quagmires.

By banishing the Abuses, and recalling the first, second, and third Mood, to relieve the fifth, sixth, and eighth, which are quite jaded.

A hundred feet from the door began the broad jade-green steps of a stair that tapered toward the top like the side of a pyramid.

She left her at last to peace and a bath, and no one could look fresher or less jaded than Claudia when the dinner-gong sounded.

The peril is that, as life goes on, and as the perceptive faculty gets blunted and jaded, a mood of pessimism creeps over the mind.

The watching tiers of the redwoods looked refreshed, their spreading dark fans were tipped with the jade-green sprays of the year's new growth.

Green was the predominating color, grass-green, jade-green, sea-green, sage-green, but toned to sobriety by this red of old brick, this blue of indigo.

Graham had to struggle to keep his eyes from straying too frequently to her as she mixed golden fizzes to rejuvenate the wan-eyed, jaded players.

It was now that I realized the full significance of the jade tablet sent to me by the hands of the student of Chinese literature.

To this Prescott demurred that those employed to convey them, and who were already jaded with toil, might not return to his redoubt.

He pulled her down on the divan beside him, and before she realized what he was doing slipped a long jade necklace over her head.

He had parted from them worn with care, and jaded with fatigue; he now saw them refreshed and blooming, though timid and anxious.

In the grove stood three hotels, with wide views over jade-green lagoons to an indigo sea; and at the most charming of the trio we stopped.

And the fascinating jade never hinted that devotion to her brought more drudgery and harassment and pain than any other service in the world.

As the reader can well conceive, I felt the tips of my fingers itching to be among the impudent, story-telling jades, but, thank goodness!

They looked it all over from top to bottom; the clerk fairly tiptoeing about with the bent-backed air of one who handles a precious jade vase.

He bought up all the poor cattle he could and would fatten them and trade them off for three or four poor, jaded animals.

Obtain books; study food values and provide those foods which nourish the body, instead of spending time uselessly preparing dainties to tempt a jaded appetite.