What is "amethystine"

Usage examples of "amethystine".

All of half a mile in diameter was this shaft, and ringed regularly along its height by wide amethystine bands -- like rings of a hollow piston.

Framed in it was the amethystine burning of the great ring that girdled the encircling cliffs.

Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge.

Barter slept, the last Pendyce was gone, and on their gravestones, through the amethystine air, let fall her gentle light.

But Paul stared far more curiously at the blond-haired young man in the amethystine toga who ruled the world.

Its verdure was a bright purple instead of the by now familiar gray or green, its amethystine bark electric against the background of its duller companions.

He stood on a mountain at sunrise, and saw the marvels of the amethystine clouds below his feet, heard an eternal and white silence, such as broods among the everlasting snows, and saw an eagle winging for the sun.

Then, as in the tilting of a mirror, it shifted again to resemble a many-hoofed, amethystine crustacean coated in sores of oozing puss, out of which sprouted many black shiny eyes, which in turn were mounted on swaying, antennae-like projections.

From its great humped bony-ridged back there streams an irresistible radiance, a mysterious shimmering amethystine glow that fills the sky and stains the water a deep violet.

As they drew steadily nearer, these uneven outlines resolved themselves into a breathtaking vista of amethystine spires, weblike walkways, lofty buttresses, and soaring crenellated structures that sparkled like crystal in glorious lavender sunshine.

She wore them proudly, first marveling at seeing treetops, then watching the sky around them turn from blue indigo to a deep amethystine.

Instead, from out of the amethystine eyes of the delicate mortal creature he had mockingly called his toy stared Thalhkarsh's hellspawn spirit—dumbfounded, glassy-eyed with shock, hardly able to comprehend what had happened to him.

Within those walls ivory towers thrust into the night, and golden-finialed purple domes were one with the dark amethystine sky.