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Definition of Amethysts
1. amethyst [n] - See also: amethyst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amethysts
Literary usage of Amethysts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"... brightly burnished that the golden tracery and the edgings of rubies and pale
amethysts shone and sparkled in the dusk with a variegated play of light. ..."
2. Light Visible and Invisible: A Series of Lectures Delivered at the Royal by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1897)
"... sapphires, and amethysts—Polarisation by double refraction—Curious coloured
effects, in polarised light, produced by colourless slices of thin crystals ..."
3. A pilgrimage to Auvergne, from Picardy to Le Velay by Louisa Stuart ( Costello (1842)
"The Condemned Lady of Mauriac.—Nonette.— Usson.—Marguerite de Valois.—Marquis de
Canillac.—The Ruse.—The Conquest.—The Castle.—Amethysts.—Ruined Castles. ..."
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