Beyond the mountains the sky was a brilliant sapphire and, within half an hour, the real desert appeared in the distance, its colours varying between burnished gold and deep red.

Of course, I may have been at error; yet it is hardly likely that I would mistake a dull cameo for a brilliant sapphire.

He glanced at his left hand, which bore a broad gold band, set with a brilliant, faceted sapphire.

As Kayleen blinked, a string of rich black pearls clasped with brilliant sapphires appeared around her neck.

Our passenger was peering out with his brilliant sapphire eyes on this world to which he was no less alien than Li Wong and myself.

Like brilliant sapphires, they shone vividly under long, dark eyelashes and gently curving eyebrows.

So, too, is the lake, which holds 2 percent of the world's fresh water, and changes color from brilliant sapphire to cerulean.

She could tell that she'd hurt it, though the eyeless expanse of Andorian blue that had seemed to cover its face now looked like part of its abdomen, and was burned to brilliant sapphire.

Rather lights played there, weaving in and out in a flickering dance of shades of blue, from a wan blight which might have emanated from some decaying bit on a forest floor, to a brilliant sapphire.

"Blue and white," he murmured, tracing the oval of the brilliant sapphire, feeling the soft skin above her collar bone with the back of his hand.