cornelian

• A lady once took a number of the larvć out of their cases, and placed them in a vessel of water with various materials, such as coloured glass, cornelian, agate, onyx, brass filings, coralline, tortoiseshell; and these little maggoty things made use of and built their houses out of them. —  Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
• This of Clarkson's was handsomely engraved on a large, old-fashioned cornelian, and surely if we look with emotion on the sword of a departed hero, which, at best, we can consider only as a necessary evil, we may look with unmingled pleasure on this memorial of a bloodless victory When I retired to my room for the night I could not but feel that the place was hallowed--unceasing prayer had there been offered for the enslaved and wronged race of Africa by that noble and brotherly heart. —  Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)
• We picked up some fine specimens of cornelian, and saw a vast number of geodes of every size, from one inch in diameter to fifteen It was Sunday. —  Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
• The mountains contained copper, iron, lead, some gold and silver,* several kinds of white or coloured marble,** and precious stones, such as topaz, garnets, emeralds, sapphires, cornelian, and lapis-lazuli, the latter being a substance held in the highest esteem by Eastern jewellers from time immemorial; Mount Bikni was specially celebrated for the fine specimens of this stone which were obtained there. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 8 (of 12)
• The majority of them a fan with a handle plated with gold, a mirror of gilt bronze with ebony handle, bracelets and ankle-rings, some of solid and some of hollow gold, edged with fine chains of plaited gold wire, others formed of beads of gold, lapis-lazuli, cornelian, and green felspar, many of them engraved with the cartouche of Ahmosis. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12)

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