124 examples of garnets in sentences

Fillets of Garnets.

At 4.40 bivouacked on a large gully trending northwards, with several small pools of water in a rocky bed of gneiss, containing numerous small garnets.

The hills are of gneiss, with garnets and trap-rock, the latter producing excellent grass of various kinds, the most conspicuous of which is a species of kangaroo-grass, but of a less woody character of seed-stalk than that found in other parts of the colony.

The existence of garnets, iron pyrites, and a mineral resembling in many of its properties plumbago, specimens of which were found in the gneiss of this district, seems to indicate a metalliferous formation, and I have little doubt a further search might develop many of the present hidden sources of wealth.

The rock which prevails on each side of the vein is a hard compact gneiss, abounding with garnets, some of which are of good colour, but mostly full of flaws; the stratification of the gneiss is somewhat confused, but it generally dips at a high angle (sometimes nearly perpendicular) to the westward, the strike being north and south.

Fragments of porphyry, quartz, and black slate are abundant in the drift, and mica, iserine, and minute garnets exist.

Gold I've seen, and turquoise I've kicked out of the cliffs, and there's garnets in the sands of the river, and here's a chunk of amber that a man brought me.

He saw a face over him, distorted with passion, a huge neck, eyes that named like angry garnets.

His eyes shone with the glare of red garnets, their greenish-black pupils almost obliterated by the ferocious fire that was in them.

He pulled out a little bottle of garnets, got by glancing over the rubbish laid about their hills by the desert ants; he thrust it back into his wallet and produced another bottle with a small quantity of gold-dust, also gathered at the rare times when he was not sleepy, and the sheep did not need driving, watering, stoning, or reviling.

And later still, when the distant hills are dyed as if with archil, the sapphire sky will be striped with bars of gold and dotted with coals of fire; rubies and garnets, sardonyx and chrysolite will all be there, and the bluish green of beryl, the western sky as varied as felspar and changing colour as quickly as the chameleon.

"Garnets, pearls, diamond-bracelet,"here they are, sure enough.

When the news was brought to Dom Manuel that his redemption of Poictesme was completed, then Dom Manuel unarmed, and made himself presentable in a tunic of white damask and a girdle adorned with garnets and sapphires.

Of course, though, they might have been only garnets ("And where was it that she dressed up in all this finery to talk with you in private?" "Why, at Woodstock, naturally.

Some fine blood-red garnets from this same locality have been cut into gems.

Apropos of garnets, the discovery, in the heart of New York city, of as fine a crystal as was ever found on this continent, and weighing 9 pounds 10 ounces, may be mentioned as a matter of peculiar interest.

Why are garnets often found of a reddish brown tinge?

The garnet is found in Bohemia, Ceylon, and other countries; but the chief mart formerly being Sirian, the capital of Pegu, the best are often denominated Sirian garnets.

Distinct from all other garnets, it preserves its colour unmixed with the common black tinge, unassisted by foil, even when thick.

Course garnets are used as emery for polishing metals, and by lapidaries.

The ring was no plain hoop of gold; it was garnets all the way round.

Chonita clapped her hands and ran around the table, pressing to her lips the beautiful white things she quickly segregated, running her hand eagerly over the little slippers, hanging the lace about her shoulders, twisting a rope of garnets in her yellow hair.

It was a little flag whose red, white, and blue was made of tiny settings of garnets, sapphires, and diamonds.

He saw the prophet's face over him, distorted with passion, his huge neck bulging, his eyes flaming like angry garnets.

You surpass Evelyn as rubies do garnets, or diamonds aqua marine, or sapphires the opaque turquoise.

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