Among the chalcedonies are the sardonyx, agates, and cornelian. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
Ceraunia, engendered by the thunder, sparkled by the side of chalcedonies, which are a cure for poison. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The ivory horns were heaped with purple amethysts, and the horns of brass with chalcedonies and sards. ❋ Unknown (1998)
The diamonds of this district are noted for their purity and lustre, and are generally associated with other crystals -- garnets, agates, quartz and chalcedonies. ❋ Various (N/A)
"_Agates_" are banded chalcedonies, the variety called "_onyx_" having very regular bands, and the "_sardonyx_" being an onyx agate in which some of the bands are of reddish sard. ❋ Frank Bertram Wade (N/A)
There were rich red garnets, variegated jaspers, chalcedonies and agates of many hues mingled with rock-crystals. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)
She had filled her pockets with specimens of obsidian, jaspers, and chalcedonies, of colors most beautiful, with a deep-dyed opaqueness, a shell-fracture, and a satiny polish like jade. ❋ Mary Hallock Foote (1892)
Scoriac rubble filled it in to a very great depth; and in the interstices of this rubble were embedded here and there rude blocks of greenstone, containing almond-shaped chalcedonies and agate and milk-quartz, with now and then a tiny water-worn spec which an experienced eye would have detected at once as the finest "riverstones." ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
It would require a course of lectures longer than these (I have a great mind, -- you have behaved so saucily -- to stay and give them) to describe to you the phenomena of this kind, in agates and chalcedonies only; -- nay, there is a single sarcophagus in the ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
Emeralds abound in the region about Mount Zabara, and the eastern desert further yields jaspers, carnelians, breccia verde, agates, chalcedonies, and rock-crystal. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)
In approaching Guanabacoa we find serpentine crossed by veins between twelve and fourteen inches thick, and filled with fibrous quartz, amethyst, and fine mammelonnes, and stalactiforme chalcedonies; it is possible that chrysoprase may also one day be found. ❋ Unknown (1851)
And when he had done all that the serpent had told him, you could see the whole orchard mantled with emeralds and chalcedonies, and coated with rubies and carbuncles, so that the lustre dazzled your eyes. ❋ Giambattista Basile (1603)
Lorenzo and his son Piero collected a great quantity of these, particularly chalcedonies, cornelians, and other kinds of the choicest engraved stones, which contained various fanciful designs; and in consequence of this, wishing to establish the art in their own city, they summoned thither masters from various countries, who, besides restoring those stones, brought to them other works which were at that time rare. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)
On breaking some of these chalcedonies, one of them was foimd to contain two extra - neous bodies; that is, a small piece of lava and some sulphate of lime crystallized; which were probably taken in by the particles of the chalcedony, while in a state of fluidity or softness. ❋ Unknown (1812)
It would require a course of lectures longer than these (I have a great mind, -- you have behaved so saucily -- to stay and give them) to describe to you the phenomena of this kind, in agates and chalcedonies only, -- nay, there is a single sarcophagus in the British Museum, covered with grand sculpture of the 18th dynasty, which contains in magnificent breccia (agates and jaspers imbedded in porphyry), out of which it is hewn, material for the thought of years; and record of the earth-sorrow of ages in comparison with the duration of which, the Egyptian letters tell us but the history of the evening and morning of a day. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
