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  • noun Plural form of quartz.

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Examples

  • June 16, 2008 at 5:04 pm quartzes of quinces n pints of pear..

    Trixy Hobbitses - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The watercourses, whose broad mouths are scattered with thin green, contain pebbles and rolled quartzes, including fine specimens of the crystallized variety.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • These metalliferous quartzes cannot be further from the coast than a maximum distance of fourteen miles, and the broad, smooth watercourse, with its easy gradients, points it out as the site of the future tramway.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • A fine assembly of fossils was pounded to shards and a collection of minerals, a lifetime's work carefully catalogued into quartzes and spars and ores, was scattered from a window.

    Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • Thus, I would divide the metalliferous quartzes of this

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Yelm blesses quartzes that have gold inside them, and other deities bless quartzes that have bits of their associated metal in them.

    The Lore of Gloranthan Gems and Near-Gems by Martin R. Crim Part II 1992

  • The amethysts, topazes, quartzes of all colours, are innumerable: there are beautiful jaspers with veins of gold, and all manner of gorgeous works of nature, fit for Aladdin's cave, and the insects, especially the butterflies, fit to flit about in it.

    Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

  • The watercourses, whose broad mouths are scattered with thin green, contain pebbles and rolled quartzes, including fine specimens of the crystallized variety.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • The island-formation is that of the opposite coasts, Midian and Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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