Stooping he examined the scattered gems, noting the trapped fire smoldering within their crystalline depths, the perfection of facets and polish.

It was like looking down into an atomic-reactor core, the surface glass smooth, the depths crystalline.

Blade peered down into the crystalline depths.

He stared into its crystalline green depths for a long moment, then finally spoke.

Like Sheila, Margo stared into the crystalline depths and a strange sensation swept her.

With marvelous agility he swam the crystalline depths, parting the ice as though it were not there.

Vast scaly monsters, more huge and hideous than any that had lived on Earth since the Jurassic period, were battling each other in the crystalline depths.

And deep within those crystalline depths, a cold, inhuman malignancy coiled.

Holding the skull so that its crystalline depths reflected the dye of the blood-red sun, Benedict Wade swelled with the thought of power.

We set off down the valley in the crystalline depths of a per-fectly clear, blue day suspended beneath the sky-high peaks.