A somewhat similar specimen, with the sides faceted and blunt at one end, has been engraved as having been found in Yorkshire.
Several such discoidal stones, somewhat faceted on their periphery, were found by the late Hon.
Another of green serpentine, faceted to form the edge, and rounded at butt, 4 inches long, was found in a cairn in Fifeshire, and is preserved in the National Museum at Edinburgh.
The faceted pattern is complete at the small end, and commenced on both sides.
Inside me a silent voice screamed a prayer for Wetzel to pull that trigger and pump a bullet into one of those round, staring, faceted eyes.
Starlight picked out two round faceted eyes of glass.
There were over a dozen of these robots, each the height of two men, and their eyes were strange round circles of faceted glass.
If we are dealing with a faceted stone, not even the smallest portion can be utilized, for fear of injuring it.
A number of faceted stones cut from the less known minerals were thrown upon the screen by reflected light.
A faceted stone is always cut from a single crystal, and not from an ordinary lump of the mineral, which is generally a mass of crystals.
In the hand of each of them was a tiny, jewelled, faceted Toy, and in the coffins-- Gamine screamed.
Memorial rings of the same period have bezels with similar designs beneath a rose diamond or faceted crystal.
Slowly and by imperceptible stages the earlier style, with its minute enamelled figures in high relief, gives place to a desire for sparkling diamonds, and a pleasure in the glitter of faceted stones.
Gold memorial locket with faceted crystal enclosing hair; inscribed behind: "Of such is the Kingdom of God.
Memorial slides, with various devices and initials in gold wire over hair or ribbed silk beneath faceted crystal.
Stones faceted in this manner were at first mostly small and unimportant and cut very irregularly into four or six facets.
Silver locket surrounded by pearls, with facetedcrystal enclosing monogram in gold wire.
On each side and below is a table diamond; and above, a crown set with triangular faceted diamonds (Pl.
I stared around the conference table at Starza's frown, at those Term faces, the great faceted eyes.
Its faceted termite eyes were expressionless diamonds, but the antennae gleamed a desperate saffron.
They sat silently around the great table, the faceted eyes dead, the antennae coruscating indigo, now green, now rose.
On the same day the Chief of Police came to Pierre, inviting him to send a representative to the Faceted Palace to recover things that were to be returned to their owners that day.
The beetle lifted the first one, a little girl, up until his many-faceted eyes looked full into the closed ones of the child.
Their huge-faceted eyes sparkled like crystal when the light fell on them, and from time to time waves of various colors passed over them, evidently reflecting the insect's emotions.
In contrast with those derived by ordinary stream action, the pebbles and bowlders of the till are faceted or “soled”, and usually show striations upon their faces.
From ordinary stream gravels, the kame gravels are distinguished by the form of their pebbles, which are generally faceted and in some cases striated.
Glacial deposits, if laid down directly by the ice, are unstratified, relatively coarse, and contain pebbles which are both faceted and striated.
In contrast to the longitudinal or medial surface moraines the materials of the transverse moraines are more faceted and rounded—they have been abraded upon the glacier pavement.
Coarse, unstratified and with rounded { deposits with faceted pebbles.
The lowerfaceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.
Such a simple instrument is especially useful for the examination of faceted gem-stones, even when they are mounted in their settings.
The street suit that she wore was of a light golden-brown broadcloth, faceted with small, dark-red buttons.
Her full, smooth, roundly modeled neck was enhanced in its cream-pink whiteness by an inch-wide necklet of black jet cut in many faceted black squares.
Under what form of thought, illusion, or mirage does the unfamiliar problem which has obtruded itself into her customary life present itself behind those faceted eyes?
The butterfly, better endowed with its faceted eyes than the owl with its single pupils, goes forward without hesitation, and threads the obstacles without contact.
Its great faceted eyes inform it of all that happens to right and left; its three stemmata, like little ruby telescopes, explore the sky above its head.
They darted here and there, their many-faceted eyes burning with blood-lust.
It seemed as though a miniature whirlwind kept pace with the little pink-skinned man, a whirlwind composed of winged bodies and multi-faceted eyes.
ZAGAT 86 Something in the Many-Faceted Mind of the Master Machine Spurs It to Diabolical Revolt Against the Authority of Its Human Masters.
Sidenote: Something in the many-faceted mind of the master machine spurs it to diabolical revolt against the authority of its human masters.
Almost man-form it was--two tall metal cylinders supporting a larger, that soared aloft till far above it was topped by a many-faceted ball of transparent quartz.
She was looking up from the faceted glass now, shaking her head sadly.
The young woman was staring into the pan of water, into the faceted glass.
It seemed as though a miniature whirlwind kept pace with him--a whirlwind composed of furry, revolting bodies and multi-faceted eyes.
The great, multi-faceted eyes held an expression of stupid preoccupation.
They left their prey helpless--staring strangely at the world about it through its many-faceted eyes--before the scavengers came to contest its ownership.
The faceted world was like a cosmic abacist, tallying as it marched the errors of the infinite.
I noted that its grinding surface was studded thickly with the smaller pyramids and that the tips of these were each capped with what seemed to be faceted gems gleaming with the same pale yellow radiance as the Shrine of the Cones.
On the ordered plains were traced the hieroglyphs of the faceted world.
I saw the tremor shake their bristling hosts, oscillate the great spire, set the faceted disks quivering.
The slender steeple of the cones drooped sending its faceted coronet shattering to the floor.
The facetedwheel at the top of the central spire of the cones swung upward; a light began to stream from the cones themselves--no pillar now, but a vast circle that shot whirling into the heavens like a noose.
Six feet away on either side, the corridor walls curved up faintly, a flattened oval of tunneling designed for multiple alien feet, lighted for faceted eyes demanding the merest fraction of light necessary for an Earthman's vision.
From either side of a circular speaking-grill, the antennae projected into the room, rasplike and alert, above faceted crystal eyes that glowed faintly in the near-darkness.
The lower part of the apse is plain, and is separated from the upper part by a string-course, enriched with faceted ornaments.
Then there came a sudden twang, as of a violently plucked string on a bass viol, and the amber egg dropped from the faceted side.
The fatal cone-shaped projection was already beginning to form upon the silver-faceted side of the nearest Devil Crystal.
This crystal nucleus clouded murkily, and the lance-like arm telescoped back into the faceted bulk.
He felt himself irresistibly drawn toward the silver-faceted wall of the Devil Crystal.
The opalescent nucleus in every silvery faceted form seemed to be "watching" with frightening intensity the figures on the pit's edge above them.
A second later the rat-man was pinned against the faceted crystalline side just under the opalescent nucleus.
They were cool and clear and joyous as the mountain torrent: for them life was a crystal of laughter, many-faceted to adventure.
There were the sudden provocative glances which flashed as impersonally as precious stones, and yet lanced forth a thrill that no faceted gem could give.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faceted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
