What is "gemlike"

Usage examples of "gemlike".

They were placed at random along the plain: silolike cylinders of shiny metal, skyscraper-size prismoids set with gemlike facets, flaring hyperboloids with barber-pole skirts, enormous lattices of translucent colored materials.

At midnight, Johnny stood out on deck in the darkness and thought about the gemlike little woman whom he had seen only once.

She was so small and gemlike that she had to be lifted from one set-back to another.

A wall projector was set on a pedestal, while on another was a gemlike model of the Galaxy.

She gestured fluidly, and two chipmold sclerotia appeared in the palm of her hand: one black and one a hard gemlike blue.

She waggled a finger at the western sky and a constellation I had never seen before appeareda great snaky showpiece twisted into the rough approximation of a figure eight, glowing with a multicolored mass of gemlike stars.

In the flickering shadows surrounding the square, Gil could distinguish the walls and turrets of several opulent villas, the fortress-like towers of what she guessed was a church, and the massive foursquare bulk of what was undoubtedly the Grand Market and Town Hall, three and a half storeys of gemlike half-timbering, like black and white lace in the dark.

And the succeeding books each took off, in their turn, from the leftover drafts of work that preceded it until, at the end of his life, Gaddis determined to transform his accumulated research into one gemlike meditation without false illusions or consolations.

There was one which was a deep blue, scattered through with chips of glowing gemlike stars.

He parted a leafy bower and stepped into a shaded spot where a small spring bubbled, pouring up its water into a clear, gemlike pool.

Once upon a time, in a time and a world far from this one, he had lived out here on one of these little gemlike farms, until his father had tired of country life and his mother had tired of his father.

The weird blue light of the cavern glimmered along the strands and turned the sticky droplets that clung to them into gemlike things that rivaled moonstones and pearls.

It was as if the rays of the third ring awoke to life every gemlike stone so that beams of raw and eye-burning color flashed out.

Another glorious vision assaulted his senses, for the gemlike walls and ceiling continued to glimmer and glow.

Hari fumbled under his robe until he found a smooth cube of gemlike stone, a parting gift from his friend and lifetime guide, R.