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Definition of Garnets
1. garnet [n] - See also: garnet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garnets
Literary usage of Garnets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"The furnace reduces the matrix-lava to a compact enamel of the colour of pitch ;
but it leaves the garnets untouched, which only become ..."
2. Annals of Aberdeen: From the Reign of King William the Lion, to the End of by William Kennedy (1818)
"Item, in the second, a large garnet, iiii garnets, iiii small saphirs betwixt
the two ii small garnets, beneath the second uthe ii small garnets. ..."
3. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"garnets Wrangell has one thing that you won't find anywhere else in Southeast: a
... Located right near the mouth of the Stikine, the garnets were first ..."
4. Conversations on Geology: Comprising a Familiar Explanation of the Huttonian by Granville Penn (1828)
"If these are garnets, they must be very inferior ones. MRS. R. You are right, my
dear: these are not the precious, but common garnets, though the finest ..."
5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"The best, precious garnets are from Ceylon and Greenland. ... garnets also occur
in several parts of the United States. ..."
6. Petralogy. A Treatise on Rocks by John Pinkerton (1811)
"LIME-STONE, WITH garnets. This curious mixture also chiefly occurs in the Pyrenees.
Light brown lime-stone, with red garnets, from the Pyrenees. ..."
7. Proceedings of the Good Roads Institute, Held at the University of North by University of North Carolina (1793-1962) (1897)
"Of the above garnets, those that are used as abrasives are pyrope, ... As is
seen, the hardness of the different garnets varies from 6.5 to 7.5. ..."
8. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"The furnace reduces the matrix-lava to a compact enamel of the colour of pitch ;
but it leaves the garnets untouched, which only become ..."
9. Annals of Aberdeen: From the Reign of King William the Lion, to the End of by William Kennedy (1818)
"Item, in the second, a large garnet, iiii garnets, iiii small saphirs betwixt
the two ii small garnets, beneath the second uthe ii small garnets. ..."
10. Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"garnets Wrangell has one thing that you won't find anywhere else in Southeast: a
... Located right near the mouth of the Stikine, the garnets were first ..."
11. Conversations on Geology: Comprising a Familiar Explanation of the Huttonian by Granville Penn (1828)
"If these are garnets, they must be very inferior ones. MRS. R. You are right, my
dear: these are not the precious, but common garnets, though the finest ..."
12. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"The best, precious garnets are from Ceylon and Greenland. ... garnets also occur
in several parts of the United States. ..."
13. Petralogy. A Treatise on Rocks by John Pinkerton (1811)
"LIME-STONE, WITH garnets. This curious mixture also chiefly occurs in the Pyrenees.
Light brown lime-stone, with red garnets, from the Pyrenees. ..."
14. Proceedings of the Good Roads Institute, Held at the University of North by University of North Carolina (1793-1962) (1897)
"Of the above garnets, those that are used as abrasives are pyrope, ... As is
seen, the hardness of the different garnets varies from 6.5 to 7.5. ..."
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