snow-crystal

He opened them, and there was a white wall in front of him, patterned with a blue snow-crystal design, and he realized that it was a ceiling and that he was lying on his back.

Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

He opened them, and there was a white wall in front of him, patterned with a blue snow-crystal design, and he realized that it was a ceiling and that he was lying on his back.

Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934

And to prove his point he lifts from the tangle of things one simple, single scene and shows this, and this alone, in all its full and rounded completeness -- beautiful as a snow-crystal on the slide of a microscope.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Elbert Hubbard 1885

"Compliments from Obi-Wan were as rare as snow-crystal on Tatooine.

The Cat is a Metaphor 2010

a separate soul, and for holding the snow-crystal to be matter. '

Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

And to prove his point he lifts from the tangle of things one simple, single scene and shows this, and this alone, in all its full and rounded completeness ” beautiful as a snow-crystal on the slide of a microscope.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916