Adjective : an amethyst brooch.    From Dictionary.com. 

"No amethysts or diamonds could be fairer," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

"But how about the amethysts and pearls?" said Alan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

Such purple stones are, of course, known as amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

But if we shouldn't, I won't care for amethysts or pearls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

'She al ways said that amethysts weren't her favourite stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rome's Revenge]

Nor why he insisted upon a cluster of wistaria set in amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

The sun petted them and bestowed opals, amethysts, and rubies upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

That one's obviously valuable because of the diamonds and the amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2009] Reference

She wore her lilac cardigan and a long chain of gold links and amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall]

Old amethysts or "topazes" that have been long in use in rings show this dulling.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

And the third bag contained a cross of silver, blackened by time, set with amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralestone Luck] Reference

By-the-bye, the best-coloured amethysts I ever remember seeing were in Clermont Ferrand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference

There were two hundred and ninety-four pierced pearls and ninety-eight pierced amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

Over its outer edge hung clusters of grapes of a rich wine color, and clear as amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

A string of massive amethysts completed a discord as elaborate as a harmony of Richard Strauss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

And have the community given you for it these jewelled rings, these chains of violet amethysts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The ivory horns were heaped with purple amethysts, and the horns of brass with chalcedonies and sards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fisherman and His Soul] Reference

A long strand of pearls interspersed with amethysts circled her throat once before hanging to her waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideal Bride]

The two amethysts are significant because, in World War II, his father was a double Purple Heart awardee.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2009] Reference

The sun is sinking, and on the far horizon the summit peaks of Oahu gleam like amethysts on a golden sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

His robes were of purple satin, covered with fine point-lace, with a large cross of diamonds and amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference

Among the assortment were garnets from the Stikine River and also from the Province of Quebec; amethysts from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference

It reflected her gold brocade, her amethysts linked with diamonds in a long chain that ended in a jeweled locket.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference

The ceiling was an assemblage of small beams, with amethysts and topazes amid their gilding in the knots of the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salammbo] Reference

Glass imitations of rubies, emeralds, amethysts, etc., will display altogether too much dispersion for the natural gems.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

That he had been dragged all the way from Northamptonshire to Hampshire was nothing in the light of eyes like amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [the deer leap]

And it's interesting to note that you see this -- it's a combination of -- there's a couple of purple amethysts in the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2009] Reference

Eight lanes of the boulevard opened onto a sky washed with hazy pinks, aquamarine blues, and the most transparent of amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courting Trouble]

We came on islands, enchanted islands, half-transparent with the prismatic lights of precious stones, of amethysts and emeralds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference

Peridot are cheaper, I think, at home, and certainly in Cairo, and the only amethysts worth looking at are sent out from Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference

The purple of the amethyst varies from the palest tints to the full rich velvety grape-purple of the so-called Siberian amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

The mountain, by which the kingdom of Grenada was intersected, produced gold, silver, granite, amethysts, and various kinds of marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

The brightest hung round the throne on which the queen sat, and which stood above four steps of pure gold inlaid with great amethysts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference