| The windows around wink and flash in cryptograms, a galactic console of messages coded in light, in diamonds and topazes and amber. |
| 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. |
| And though my nose be rather flat, And though my mouth be wide, My teeth like topazes exalt My beauty to the sky. |
| Other slaves cut and shaped the amethysts, topazes, emeralds, and diamonds that often filled the gold and silver settings. |
| Topazes are not scarce enough to be much valued by the lapidary. |
| 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. |
