Among Starlight's effects we found a single blue sapphire, apparently acquired from one of the refugees.

A single, star-cut blue sapphire glittered in its pommel.

This morning Marion had chosen the same long gray skirt, but a different cashmere crewneck; it was burgundy-colored, and in place of a scarf she wore a simple necklace-a thin platinum chain with a single bright-blue sapphire that matched her eyes.

Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire.

Now suppose we compare these gigantic trivialities on the hoardings with those tiny and tremendous pictures in which the mediaevals recorded their dreams; little pictures where the blue sky is hardly longer than a single sapphire, and the fires of judgment only a pigmy patch of gold.

At the peak of the staff there gleamed a single, monster sapphire, as deep as skies, and large as a man's two fists.

An unadorned platinum fillet rested on his head, almost hidden by the curls of his silver-gray hair, and a platinum chain hung down from his shoulders, supporting a single sapphire in the center of his chest that matched the sapphires in the rings on his artificial hand.

In front of him stood Tsotha, and on divans lounged Strabonus and Amalrus in their silks and gold, gleaming with jewels, naked slave-boys beside them pouring wine into cups carved of a single sapphire.

A single sapphire blazed to life, and she was reminded of the spinning blue light flashing in her face.

His snowy hair and white tunic drew attention to the only contrast he wore: a gold star on his shoulder, eight-pointed like Brennen's, but set with a single sapphire and circled in silver.