What did they care for green gem-like beetles, after all?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories] Reference

Shame on you for mispelling her delicate and gem-like nom de plume!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthuman Blues] Reference

I envisioned them floating along the ocean current, glorious and gem-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

Bishop's poetry was private, gem-like in its perfection and marked by formal rigor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Friendship in Letters] Reference

It was a lovely, gem-like series that mixed humor and compassion and really, really cool art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top 200 DC Characters #181-200 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

His gem-like playing is matched by the delicate hand of Lanois, who applies only discreet touches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neil Young: Le Noise] Reference

The new watches offer a dazzling, attractive design with gem-like glitter set into the watch face.    From Wordnik.com.  [March 2009 - Fareastgizmos.com] Reference

That will, of course, hurt, as each word represents perfection and is vital to the gem-like whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freshly-washed world] Reference

Cubic zirconia is a hard, clear, gem-like material that is marketed as an inexpensive diamond-like gemstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zirconium] Reference

Just a little thing -- that we share a taste for gem-like novels set in Baltimore, apparently -- but it's something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melanie Benjamin: To Judge a Nook By Its Cover] Reference

But one perfection of colour they almost all of them had, that agreeability, that gem-like lustre and richness, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

The adult metallic starling is remarkable for the colour and lustre of its eyes, which are ruby-red and glitter gem-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference

I mean, nobody was ever really threatened by these loitering, prehistoric lizard-things with giant gem-like eyes, were they?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sleestak Bank] Reference

It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost gem-like perfection---the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases.    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE MENCKEN GEMS] Reference

If that is the case, then icing roses would never be snitched from birthday cakes, and no one would ever touch a gem-like fruit tart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tigers & Strawberries » Flower Power] Reference

Now, I can work on Galatea Resurrects and maybe start hand-writing out those gem-like Tiny Books for which orders I've been sitting on.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHEW...AND WOOOOOT!!!!] Reference

Pezeshkzad also makes a contribution to Strange Times, My Dear, in the form of a gem-like story titled “Delayed Consequences of the Revolution.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Version] Reference

When the ice-cold drops touched Chris's forehead, and lay on his parted lips, gem-like drops which he was past swallowing, his malformed eyes slowly opened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference

We can be fairly certain of the gem-like banalities they will drop on TV when called on to compare yesterday's presidential inaugural to previous presidential inaugurals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Frank: George W. Is No Martyr] Reference

And his abstract geometric shapes, which suggest birds, trees, letter forms, clouds, figures and fluids, transform each of the gem-like rectangles into a unique universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paintings That Converse With Antiquity] Reference

But the film, making its New York premiere after successful runs at the Sarasota and Los Angeles film festivals, has gem-like moments scattered like Waffle House hashbrowns.    From Wordnik.com.  [At War With Zombies, Boredom and Ken Russell] Reference

The attraction of S. Quirico is its gem-like little collegiata, a.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

Flames are never hard and never gem-like -- they cannot be handled or arranged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heretics] Reference

Intensely bright with the gem-like light of her gallant spirit, Rose's eyes fixed on Evan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference

What a misfortune that the gem-like lustre of the early Italians escaped this modern disciple!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overbeck] Reference

The parrot stretched out his neck and rubbed it against her cheek, closing and unclosing his gem-like eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Soldiers] Reference

Typography is crisp, images gem-like, and the speed brisk thanks to Apple's A4 chip and solid state storage.    From Wordnik.com.  [GigaOM] Reference

There is only one way in which our passions can become hard and gem-like, and that is by becoming as cold as gems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heretics] Reference

Occasionally we get lucky though and find a gem-like Gizmodo commenter Ding-Dang's wife-who'll put up with all that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

Song ideas tend to be like really sort of little gem-like ideas that you expand on, so that can work really, really well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life] Reference

So human emotions are never hard and never gem-like; they are always dangerous, like flames, to touch or even to examine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heretics] Reference

But perhaps I should have said "gem-like chicken chunks," above, because I never wind up delivering these overheated oratories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

She saw him as a clear stroke of uttermost contradiction, a strange gem-like being whose existence defined her own non-existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

It is a mass of green fringes, with gem-like tips of buds and baby cones, beautiful, exquisitely beautiful, whether seen from afar as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodland Tales] Reference

From their green nest the children gazed and gazed; and the great blue bird held them with the gem-like radiance of its unwinking eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories] Reference

There are thirty miles of river from Sambir to the gem-like islands of the estuary where the frigate was awaiting the return of the boats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river] Reference