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any of various minerals consisting of materials such as hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves

They swayed gently, and beneath the sun and water was mica behind them.
Roger Zelazny -- Nine Princes in Amber

The sun caught the broken mica in the old patched pavement as he made the U-turn.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
This is mica schist—siliceous mineral.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
The sand itself was dark, glittering with silver mica.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
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.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
Dead ahead there swelled up a smooth, symmetrical hummock, its slopes, flecked with mica, reflecting the sun like a massed array of heliographs.
James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
"No, mica," said Josefina.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising
Where they'd resprinkled it since church, the talcum shone like mica on their downy arms.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
I found the inner wall to consist of a kind of talc, mingled with threads of asbestos, and also indications of mica.
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
Stirred up by our footsteps, the mica–rich dust on this beach flew into the air like a cloud of sparks.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Others found that mica, of which the melting point is 9000C.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
"Handsome" ... Like mica-glints in the sidewalk, another phrase!
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
The signs on cards, picked out with shining mica: Pies Like Mother Used to Make.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
His little eyes glittered like mica discs—with curiosity,—though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
The overhead light was softened by a desk lamp with an amber mica shade.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
The dark ribbon you see is the Tiber cutting through the light, and those white flakes, like mica, are the large piazze.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
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.
William P. Young -- The Shack
Where do you find a porcupine necktie in Mica, Arizona—or anywhere else, for that matter?
Jerry Spinelli -- Stargirl
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.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread

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