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- "No, mica," said Josefina.† (source)
- We discovered large sheets of mica that you could pound into powder and then rub all over your body so you'd shimmer under the Nevada sun as if you were coated with diamonds.† (source)
- He was a sixteen-year-old Toyota Corolla with a paint color called Mystic Teal Mica and an engine that clanked in a steady rhythm like the beating of his immaculate metallic heart.† (source)
- By the weak light from a few torches within the entrance to the long tunnel, the snowflakes gave off a faint blue glow, like pieces of dancing mica.† (source)
- Where do you find a porcupine necktie in Mica, Arizona—or anywhere else, for that matter?† (source)
- The moonlight picked up the white hatches of the centerline and the glinting bits that looked like mica mixed with the asphalt.† (source)
- The sun caught the broken mica in the old patched pavement as he made the U-turn.† (source)
- The overhead light was softened by a desk lamp with an amber mica shade.† (source)
- In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast's card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed.† (source)
- The air was cool and dry, and when we stopped at a switch to let a line of low coal cars go past us, I peered down the tunnel and the mica in the rock wall sparkled like diamonds.† (source)
- …room did not look dull; it looked marvellously pure, marvellously full of its own gray and eldritch charm; he could imagine cranes half-glimpsed in gunmetal mist standing in one-legged silence beside upland lakes in that light, could imagine the mica flecks in rocks jutting from spring grasses in upland meadows shining with the shaggy glow of glazed window-glass in that light, could imagine elves shucking their busy selves off to work in lines under the dewsoaked leaves of early ivy in…† (source)
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- He looked down and was relieved to see a faint reflection off a surface—not the dirt and rock of the tunnel, but a floor smooth and dark like polished mica.† (source)
- Persons Unknown That Monday, the sixteenth of November, 1959, was still another fine specimen of pheasant weather on the high wheat plains of western Kansas-a day gloriously bright-skied, as glittery as mica.† (source)
- She touched the wings of flies, the souls of invisible bacteria, all specks, mites, and mica-snowings of sunlight filtrated with motion and much more hidden emotion.† (source)
- She paused and it was true, she looked a little toneless in here, away from the Sundance of poolside light, her face deprived of its unquiet shading, the mica animation that gave her bones a line and edge.† (source)
- The sand itself was dark, glittering with silver mica.† (source)
- The dark ribbon you see is the Tiber cutting through the light, and those white flakes, like mica, are the large piazze.† (source)
- Mr. Muldoon managed the mica mines, and his house had a long front porch with varnished floorboards, and the steps were varnished as well, and so was the swing.† (source)
- Look, Auntie, look, her niece would cry, and when she opened her hand there would be a shiny flake of mica to see, or maybe a bisected worm, all squiggly confusion.† (source)
- I climbed up, slipping and floundering, lost the echoed light and found it again, a good little new-split stone with a piece of mica in it—not a fortune but a good thing to have.† (source)
- Dead ahead there swelled up a smooth, symmetrical hummock, its slopes, flecked with mica, reflecting the sun like a massed array of heliographs.† (source)
- They swayed gently, and beneath the sun and water was mica behind them.† (source)
- Tracks of bare feet, glinting like mica, Led over the bright plain and beyond the inn's hut, And the dogs sighting these tracks by the Star's light Growled at them as if at a candle-end's flame.† (source)
- Where they'd resprinkled it since church, the talcum shone like mica on their downy arms.† (source)
- I knew why I was applauding, but I wondered about some of the other Mica fans.† (source)
- As the Glendale coach sent in the scrubs to mop us up, Mica girls wept.† (source)
- He never left Mica, has a family there now.† (source)
- All this was reported in the Mica Times.† (source)
- There was the birthday notice that appeared in the Mica Times three years before.† (source)
- It was not the one she had given at Mica High.† (source)
- All of Mica, it seemed, emptied out and headed for the game.† (source)
- The driver was Mr. McShane, Mica High's faculty representative to the state contest.† (source)
- The ball took place on a Saturday night in late May on the tennis courts of the Mica Country Club.† (source)
- The pet shop at the Mica Mall ran out of rats.† (source)
- As Mica High's winner, she qualified for the district "talk-off," as the Times called it.† (source)
- Mica Area High School—MAHS—was not exactly a hotbed of nonconformity.† (source)
- When her change purse was empty, we drove back to Mica.† (source)
- Our home meets were held on the Mica Country Club golf course.† (source)
- "This is Mica Area High School," I reminded him.† (source)
- Tacked to one wall was a municipal map of Mica.† (source)
- In previous years cheerleaders had outnumbered Mica fans at away games.† (source)
- She looked just like a hundred other girls at Mica High.† (source)
- There were no PA announcements, no TV coverage, no headlines in the Mica Times: MARS STUDENTS ASTIR† (source)
- She told me how she would run the Mica Times if she were the editor.† (source)
- Your job isn't to have fun, they told her, your job is to cheer for Mica High no matter what.† (source)
- I pictured folded morning papers tossed from cars, landing in driveways all over Mica.† (source)
- A natural question in a city as young as Mica.† (source)
- From the moment the Mica mob entered the gym, our cheers rattled the rafters.† (source)
- Each time I visit Mica, I drive past her old house on Palo Verde.† (source)
- "Now tell me what you saw," she said, and her eyes glittered like mica.† (source)
- I remembered then that Dad had once brought some mica crystals home with him and left them on the kitchen table for Mom, along with a card that said: You always wanted diamonds, but these are the best I can do.† (source)
- We passed the "Welcome to Mica" sign.† (source)
- Old-timers—or as old as timers got in a city as young as Mica—said they had never heard such a racket.† (source)
- At Mica Area High School, Hillari Kimble was famous for three things: her mouth, The Hoax, and Wayne Parr.† (source)
- In his column next day, the sports editor of the Mica Times referred to her as "the best athlete on the field."† (source)
- Did we really think that little Mica, undefeated in its own third-rate league, could ever stand up to the big-city powerhouses around the state?† (source)
- Most of all, they said she was the reason why the Mica Electrons were not soon to become Arizona state basketball champions.† (source)
- Leo, this has never happened in Mica before, having a winner of the Arizona state oratorical contest.† (source)
- And glinting with—what else— mica.† (source)
- Kevin says when the class gathers for reunions at the Mica Country Club, there is much talk of Stargirl and curiosity as to her whereabouts.† (source)
- I usually steered us away from the Mica Mall—too many silent-treatment MAHS kids hanging around there.† (source)
- All of this was affirmed by our own star, Ardsley himself, who said that when he saw a Mica cheerleader giving comfort to the enemy, the heart went out of him.† (source)
- We trekked all over Mica, past hundreds of grassless stone-and-cactus front yards, through the Tudorized shopping center, skirting the electronics business park around which the city had been invented a mere fifteen years before.† (source)
- A Mica cheerleader.† (source)
- We root for Mica.† (source)
- They turned back to the business of the climb, scrambling over jackstraw falls of rock and crouch-walking up inclined planes of stone shot with glitters of quartz and mica.† (source)
- Past the gates she could see Alicante below, shimmering water in the canals, the demon towers reaching up to where sunlight made them glitter like mica sparkling in stone.† (source)
- Across the street there passed what could have been a boy, could have been a dwarf, could have been a boy-with-dwarf-mind, could have been anything blown along like the scuttle-crab leaves on the frost-mica sidewalks.† (source)
- The stars never shone anywhere else the way they shone in Idris—and they weren't shining now The witchlight had picked out dozens of sparkling deposits of mica in the rock around him, and the walls had come alive with brilliant points of light.† (source)
- Will stopped saying "Oh, no, no, no." He, too, in the last few moments, had thought the same as his father, of the toted corpse, the strewn bone-meal, the mineral-enriched hills of grass…… Now there was only the empty chair and the last particles of mica, the radiant motes of peculiar dirt crusting the straps.† (source)
- Jace let go of her hand and walked the last steps of the path down to the edge of the water, where the small beach was powdery and fine, glittering with mica.† (source)
- He could see the glitter of mica in the rocks with his vampire sight; he didn't need Isabelle's witchlight to guide him, but he imagined she did, so said nothing about it.† (source)
- Halfway up the hill Samuel squatted down and took up a handful of the harsh gravelly earth in his palm and spread it with his forefinger, flint and sandstone and bits of shining mica and a frail rootlet and a veined stone.† (source)
- A couple of hours before sundown they came to the cwm; and here, in the saucer-shaped depression between the slopes of mica and quartz, they made camp.† (source)
- "Handsome" … Like mica-glints in the sidewalk, another phrase!† (source)
- The signs on cards, picked out with shining mica: Pies Like Mother Used to Make.† (source)
- Others found that mica, of which the melting point is 9000C.† (source)
- He waited at the door until the sheriff came out--the fat man, with little wise eyes like bits of mica embedded in his fat, still face.† (source)
- There were roller skates made of shining nickel with straps of good brown leather and silvered nervous wheels, tensed for rolling, needing but a breath to start them turning, as they lay crossed one over the other, sprinkled with mica snow on a bed of cloudlike cotton.† (source)
- Painted and rouged with theater greasepaint and dusted with mica snow, Jimmy and I marched around the store with tambourines and curl-tongued noisemakers, turning somersaults in our billiard-felt jester's suits, and we gathered a gang of kids to lead to the third floor where the Swede Santa Claus sat in his sleigh, with reindeer artfully hung from the ceiling, the toy trains snicking and money baskets mousing swift and mechanical on the cables to the cashier's cage.† (source)
- He mounted the stairs that even underfoot felt differently, as though the unworn mica in them sparkled through the soles-and stopped at the door.† (source)
- Fire had polished the sparkling enamel of its inner walls, sprinkled all over with mica–rich dust.† (source)
- A hundred times had Martin obediently looked at the specimens in the brown, crackly-varnished bookcase: the beetles and chunks of mica; the embryo of a two-headed calf, the gallstones removed from a respectable lady whom the Doc enthusiastically named to all visitors.† (source)
- His little eyes glittered like mica discs—with curiosity,—though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness.† (source)
- The sparkle of the mica was dulled by the baked ground, and a few gusts of mistral from down the coast seeped through the Esterel and rocked the fishing boats in the harbor, pointing the masts here and there at a featureless sky.† (source)
- The shores of Earraid were close in; I could see in the moonlight the dots of heather and the sparkling of the mica in the rocks.† (source)
- He stood there for a moment in the moonlight with his delicate hooked nose set a little askew, and his mica eyes glittering without a wink, then, with a curt Good night, he strode off.† (source)
- Above a cornice of gilded balls, the ceiling rose in pavilion style until it broke into a shallow dome set with hundreds of panes of violet mica, permitting a flood of light deliciously reposeful.† (source)
- I found the inner wall to consist of a kind of talc, mingled with threads of asbestos, and also indications of mica.† (source)
- Geologists consider this primitive matter to be the base of the mineral crust of the earth, and have ascertained it to be composed of three different formations, schist, gneiss, and mica schist, resting upon that unchangeable foundation, the granite.† (source)
- Stirred up by our footsteps, the mica–rich dust on this beach flew into the air like a cloud of sparks.† (source)
- The mica and asbestos, too, were brought in for the present, not to lie there idle, but to wait until I could use them as I intended, for china and lamp-wicks.† (source)
- With his hand he was examining the perpendicular wall, and in a few more minutes he continued: "This is gneiss! here is mica schist!† (source)
- It was quite spacious, floored with polished marble slabs, and lighted in the day by skylights in which colored mica served as glass.† (source)
- The walls assumed a crystallised though sombre appearance; mica was more closely mingled with the feldspar and quartz to form the proper rocky foundations of the earth, which bears without distortion or crushing the weight of the four terrestrial systems.† (source)
- The light was clear, bringing into view the panelling on the walls, the cornice with its row of gilded balls, and the dome dully tinted with violet mica.† (source)
- To the schists succeeded gneiss, partially stratified, remarkable for the parallelism and regularity of its lamina, then mica schists, laid in large plates or flakes, revealing their lamellated structure by the sparkle of the white shining mica.† (source)
- Objects on the way, though ever so common, became interesting the moment she called attention to them; a black swallow in the air pursued by her pointing finger went off in a halo; if a bit of quartz or a flake of mica was seen to sparkle in the drab sand under kissing of the sun, at a word he turned aside and brought it to her; and if she threw it away in disappointment, far from thinking of the trouble he had been put to, he was sorry it proved so worthless, and kept a lookout for…† (source)
- Others were speckled with flakes of mica that caught the morning sun with a cheerful shimmer.† (source)
- Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.† (source)
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