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The front was fitted of mortared stones set with jeweled windows, jagged shards of gleaming mica.† (source)
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"No, mica," said Josefina.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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The moonlight picked up the white hatches of the centerline and the glinting bits that looked like mica mixed with the asphalt.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Others found that mica, of which the melting point is 9000C.† (source)
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"Now tell me what you saw," she said, and her eyes glittered like mica.† (source)
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They swayed gently, and beneath the sun and water was mica behind them.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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The dark ribbon you see is the Tiber cutting through the light, and those white flakes, like mica, are the large piazze.† (source)
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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)
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