(n.) A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In December this year the BBC is doing a three-part adaptation of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.
(2) My 10 Victorian novels that are as good as, or better than, anything Dickens wrote: Middlemarch, George Eliot Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Portrait of a Lady, Henry James North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell • John Sutherland's The Dickens Dictionary (Icon, £9.99) is published tomorrow at 11.15am
(3) One newspaper noted sombrely that Jefferies had also conducted a lesson on the "Victorian murder novel", The Moonstone .
Sunstone
Definition:
(n.) Aventurine feldspar. See under Aventurine.
Example Sentences:
(1) To my surprise, the sunstone is "real" – or rather, as real as a firm theory can make it.
(2) A few months ago, an example of the sunstone was finally found, but in an Elizabethan ship: still hundreds of years away from the encyclopedia-like sources I would point to as a teen in order to "win" an argument.
(3) A great example is the "sunstone" Lothbrok uses for ship navigation in the show, a piece of seemingly magical rock that will light up with the sun's rays even on a cloudy day (the "sunstone" allows for the use of his sundial-compass even on long voyages, allowing him to eventually plunder England).
(4) Speculating on why a sunstone hasn't been found yet highlights how the simple passage of time can destroy our understanding of whole cultures.