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a black or dark-colored volcanic glass; one of the finest raw materials for the chipping of stone tools

Here is that by which thou wilt survive the wind of the obsidian knives.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces

It was gleaming, all the hotel's windows and lights reflecting on its obsidian exterior.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
The man in black, smiling, swelled in his vision and then retreated down a long and echoing corridor filled with obsidian pylons.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Along either wall crouched four obsidian statues of the Set animal, their faces turned towards us with pearl teeth bared and emerald eyes glittering.
Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
The chariot was inlaid with obsidian and gold, decorated with scenes of painful death.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
Looming on the horizon was a palace of glittering black obsidian.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
The woman, though, just watched her with eyes like flat obsidian circles.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
He could see her watching him through the haze, her eyes as black as obsidian.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
I even saw Fela off in the corner of the shop, chipping carefully away at a piece of obsidian the size of a large loaf of bread.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
It was Hephestial glass, obsidian, formed when the rock I walked through had been heated to liquid and had flowed across this part of the world.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
It spread its metal wings, blinked its obsidian eyes, and flew around the room.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
Her brilliant obsidian eyes were unreadable, but her smile was friendly.
Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
They moved the sand around and uncovered obsidian arrowheads he could sell to old men in camp for fifty cents apiece.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar
Just a block of homes burning and sinking into the obsidian sea that had swallowed the city.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
She passed under a bronze arch fashioned in the likeness of two snakes mating, their scales delicate flakes of jade, obsidian, and lapis lazuli.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
It was a greasy black bird almost as large as an eagle, with a jagged beak like an obsidian knife.
Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
"You're not being put off," the Baron said, and he stared into the Sardaukar's obsidian eyes.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
The High Priest gazed at him and Arya with eyes like chips of obsidian.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
It reached down with two bone-white hands to pull out the knife, but where its fingers touched the obsidian they smoked.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords

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