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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Behind him on a finely carved desk was a gleaming working model of the St Petersburg-Cannes Express constructed in pearls and amethysts.
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On display are earrings, necklaces and bracelets made from lapis, carnelian turquoise, jade, amber and amethyst .
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Overhead, in the amethyst dusk above the Viennese Altstadt, Steel City was an evening star.
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The glass is only one millimetre thick, and is pale amethyst in colour.
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The Romans believed the amethyst prevented drunkenness and used to drink out of goblets studded with these purple gems.
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There were the unfinished shoes for Emily Grenfell lying on the bench, the amethysts agleam against the softness of the leather.
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Two fifteenth-century icons set in beaten silver, studded with amethyst and quartz.
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We drove through undulating farmland and it was as if the light were refracted through amethyst .