65 Verbs to Use for the Word crystal

Small veins of quartz intersected the jasper, and contained small crystals of sulphuret of copper and iron.

Intent upon taking the magic crystal to the light of the lamp, as a drinker examines his bottle at the end of a repast, he had not seen his father's eye pale.

Thou setting life against thy glory light, As men hold up a crystal 'gainst the sun, Making its frame as nothing in the blaze!

Our party had stopped to collect specimens of the lead ore, when the carriages were instantly surrounded by these females, offering ore, zinc, slick-and-slide, and various quartz crystals and fluor spars for sale; some of the women were very old, and one in particular, who had worked in the mine from her youth, was nearly a hundred years of age, yet she was upright and active, and wrinkles alone betrayed the fact.

He watched the proceeding in infantile wonder and especially remembered how the water dropped in sparkling crystals from the oar blades.

It was as if a cupful of ruddy wine had been drunk at a gulp, leaving but a few drops to stain the crystal.

We lay down on the black sand, and gazed, and gazed, and picked up quartz crystals fallen from above, and wondered how the cove had got its name.

In this fluid are found some minute crystals of lime like tiny particles of sand, called otoliths, or ear-stones.

In the "Frater Hall," however, are some interesting remains of the old house, among them a fine collection of mazers and two bowls of maple wood, in one of which lies perhaps the very crystal which Erasmus saw, and which was set in the upper leather of the shoe of St Thomas.

All we can say is, that some force has gone on, or may be even now going on, in the more ancient rocks, which is similar to that which produces single crystals; and similar, too, to that which produced the jointed crystals of basalt, i.e. lava, at the Giant's Causeway, in Ireland, and Staffa, in the Hebrides.

Then I shook it carefully, and out into my hand there dropped a pure crystal as big as a walnut.

Not a speck of vapor blurred the spotless crystal of the sky, as I walked along the hanging paths of the Alameda.

With a plunging flash It falls, to dash That crystal into foam; And then at a bound Slips under ground To the lake,its final home.

{185} Some writers describe this colossal crystal as being twenty- five feet long.

As a good example of Mr. White's style, we should be inclined to cite the Introduction to "Love's Labor's Lost," from which we detach this single crystal: "It is ever the ambitious way of youthful genius to aim at novelty of form in its first essays, while yet in treatment it falls unconsciously into a vein of reminiscence; afterward it is apt to return to established forms, and to show originality of treatment.

Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.

In Crystal Gazing, the occultist merely employs the crystal in order to concentrate his power, and to bring to a focus his astral vision.

Compact felspar of a flesh-red hue, enclosing a few small crystals of reddish felspar and of quartz.

From the outset Mr. Wace made copious notes, and it was due to his scientific method that the relation between the direction from which the initiating ray entered the crystal and the orientation of the picture were proved.

But when at last Mr. Cave examined the crystal again the Martian had departed.

The white topaz considerably exceeds rock crystal in lustre, and in Brazil is called mina nova.

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.

Had to redesign some of 'em to fit a crystal this size, but we did it.

His was one of those clearly-cut minds which New England forms among her farmers, as she forms quartz crystals in her mountains, by a sort of gradual influence flowing through every pore of her soil and system.

Ponting took some photographs with long exposure and Wright got some very fine ice crystals.

65 Verbs to Use for the Word  crystal