geode

• The stuff was all over the place now, and the geode was her rarest and prettiest stone—unusual enough to buy a lot of coup at the upcoming ceremony. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
• Unlike a geode, it was a tube, and its crystals must have had quantum information transferring functions far beyond the chemistry of unjacked geology, because with the telescope he could see a hundred miles. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
• It was like a geode of cogwork, the open spaces stolen away by layer after layer of machinery, a slowly closing fist of gears. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#212
• Viewing the glittering skyscrapers and shining scraps of fog that filled the far end of Wendis like a geode, these people hadn't noticed anything sliding into Robin Lake behind them. —  Analog, July-August 2006
• Judd also reported a misdemeanor arrest of a person who provided alcohol to a minor; vandalism to the elevator windows; theft of a geode chipped out of a gravestone at the cemetery; and a traffic accident. —  News from www.dailygate.com

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