agate

• Thus, an arrow-head may be indented in a very short time, which would be impossible by chipping 184] Moss-agate is also found, but rarely 185] Compare W. H. Holmes, U. S. Geographical Survey_, 1876, p. 404 186] That stones were used, both in offensive as well as in defensive warfare, is proven by Castañeda, ii. —  Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I
• Advertising, 25 cents per line on inside pages; 30 cents per line on last page--agate measure; 14 lines to the inch. —  Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside
• I borrowed John Forney's revolver, provided an agate-point and "manifold paper" for duplicate letters to our "two papers, both daily," and at the appointed hour was at the railway station. —  Memoirs
• A. Quartz and agate are slit with a thin iron disk supplied with diamond dust moistened with brick oil. —  Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
• They gathered basket after basket full of sea flowers and weeds of vivid dye, to be pressed and packed for transportation to Hastings, and such quantities of shells, with an occasional pebble of agate or carnelian, that Ned laughingly declared I'll have just all the baggage the 'Gull' can float under, Noll. —  Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught

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