Sides of gems

Usage examples of facets.

The different facets of the ice sliced up and reconstructed their images so the ice-folk appeared to be models for countless cubist artworks awaiting resurrection when that style came back into vogue.

Irregular and jagged, with sharp edges and many facets, they were unlike any stones he had ever seen before.

I used it both to bring out various facets of the characters and in symbolic ways.

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

These formations had enough crystal facets to trap light for an appreciable time.

Further, the facets of crystal split and reflected the beams: It was like firing a laser into an infinity of tiny mirrors.

Within it there were people moving about, and she could see great crystals set in arrays, their many facets shining.

They were more intense then, but they are exactly like the facets of the stone I pulled from the Tower of Mirrors.

He had been cautioned to take up his old position before he revealed the new facets of his personality.

Some were translucent lemon-coloured, others dark amber or cognac, with all shades in between, while again there were those that were untinted, clear as snow-melt in a mountain stream, with frosted facets that reflected the flames of the smoky little fire.

For that reason, the Romans treasured pearls more highly and even the first Hindu artisans only rubbed up the natural facets of the Kohinoor.

Craig picked out another large stone, its imperfect facets frosted and stippled to hide the true fire in its depths.

Beauty nor Beast, a shape that seemed to be made of glass and mirrors, each curve of its body turned to facets and angles.

This aetheric magic has facets we cannot match, however strong our own enchantments in other spheres.

Temar recalled, hewn out of the living rock, angles and facets marking the stroke of axe and pick on the walls.