| The windows around wink and flash in cryptograms, a galactic console of messages coded in light, in diamonds and topazes and amber. |
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| Other slaves cut and shaped the amethysts, topazes, emeralds, and diamonds that often filled the gold and silver settings. |
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| Other mined minerals include gypsum, kaolin, rock salt, baryte, phosphates, gold, sapphires, topazes, and aquamarines. |
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| In about 1700, parures consisted of earrings, brooch, necklace or clasp, ring, and sometimes shoulder brooches or buckles, all set with diamonds, either alone or in combination with rubies, topazes, sapphires, or emeralds. |
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| The colour of the precious topazes and the diamonds' brightness enact this magic: that's the vision the Earth gives of itself far and away in the space. |
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| The sleeve-buttons were topazes, winy-yellow, lightly set in crinkly gold. |
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