"Pyrite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or even excelled his expectation. He had four rooms and a private garden enclosed by a thicket of bamboo. His bathroom walls were slabs of glossy actinolite, inlaid with cinnabar, jade, galena, pyrite and blue malachite, in representations of fantastic birds. His bedroom was a tent thirty feet high. Two walls were dark green fabric; a third was golden rust; the fourth opened upon the ...
— Sjambak • John Holbrook Vance
... pierre composee de petites masses irregulieres de quartz, melees et agglutinees, avec des parties micacees argilleuses, et quelquefois melanges de feldspath. Parmi ces pierres, il y en a quelques-unes provenant du meme filon, qui contiennent de la pyrite cuivreuse ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton |
