chatoyant

Men with chatoyant eyes and prehensile noses leered at him.

The stone has areas that are highly chatoyant similar to pietersite or tiger's eye.

Chatoyant minerals display luminous bands, which appear to move as the specimen is rotated.

When the schiller forms an indistinct band it is said to display a chatoyant effect.

The familiar, chatoyant glint was in Lymond's eyes.

Another gem variety is the chatoyant form known as cat's-eye actinolite.

The stellate masses tend to be chatoyant, meaning they have a changeable luster.

Transparent stones of clean color have been faceted, and chatoyant specimens have been cabochon cut.

Cymophane, the chatoyant chrysoberyl known as cat's eye, may also be asteriated.

Chatoyant stones are known as cat's-eye apatite, transparent green stones are known as asparagus stone, and blue stones have been called moroxite.

It has an unusual swirling, fibrous appearance, sometimes chatoyant, and that, along with its intense color, can lead many to believe at first that it is synthetic or enhanced artificially.

From his shirt he drew forth a chain of some black metal from which depended a shimmering, chatoyant gem the size of a large grape, set in a simple retainer of silver.

Tiger's eye (also called Tigers eye or Tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock that is a golden to red-brown color, with a silky luster.

I managed to move sufficiently to see at the top, as I fired up the stairs, the yellow face of Dr. Fu-Manchu, to see the gleaming, chatoyant eyes, greenly terrible, as they sought to pierce the gloom.

In this variety, microscopic tubelike cavities or needlelike inclusions of rutile occur in an orientation parallel to the c-axis producing a chatoyant effect visible as a single ray of light passing across the crystal.

But what first claimed the sight, like an ensign on a masked man's shield, was a chatoyant quality of his youthful olive skin, a silvery gleaming that turned one's thoughts to fishes' bellies and leprosy - that, and a certain familiarity.

The reflected sunlight from outside shone on the pale gold heavy falling swerve of her hair, in the depths of the chatoyant grey eyes, and on the glint of white teeth between the luxurious lips dial were half open with her question.

In the case of asteriated stones such as star sapphires and chatoyant stones such as cat's eye chrysoberyl, a domed cabochon cut is used to show the star or eye, which would not be visible in a faceted cut.

These enclosures sometimes give rise to a chatoyant effect like that of cats-eye and cymophane; and elaeolite when of a good green or red color and showing a distinct band of light is sometimes cut as a gem-stone with a convex surface.

If I am right about all this - if, a century from now, a deliciously peppered English is the first language of a third of the world and the second language of the rest of the world - my chatoyant descendants will have a right to sismek.