Heb., but the twelfth in the Greek; it is called sardonyx and comes in the fifth place in Apoc., xxi, 20. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
But the sardonyx was a finer stone than the amethyst, and he ended by giving me three hundred and fifty livres. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference
Among the chalcedonies are the sardonyx, agates, and cornelian. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The cup itself is of a kind of agate, like chalcedony or sardonyx. From Wordnik.com. [Pope Benedict and the Holy Grail] Reference
On a rock of sardonyx he strove to break it then, but Durendala remained unharmed. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Like all her signets, this was a simple seal carved of sardonyx, her Clan crest, a rampant cockatrice. From Wordnik.com. [The Elvenbane]
I learned from sardonyx that links to Steve's Daily Kos posts can be found on Steve's dKosopedia pages. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
It has, surrounding a sardonyx cameo the City's coat of arms, the City's motto: Domine direge nos, Lord, direct us. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord Mayor of London] Reference
On an enormous banquet table in the center were goblets of striped sardonyx and white alabaster, doubly pretty in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
There are necklaces of gold papyrus blooms, rosettes, and argonauts, and polished amethyst, carnelian, and sardonyx beads. From Wordnik.com. [Minoans in Manhattan] Reference
And the principal gates of his palace be of precious stone that men clepe sardonyx, and the border and the bars be of ivory. From Wordnik.com. [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference
The onyx and the sardonyx upon your garments shine. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Sardinians than they have with sardines or sardonyx. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
The sardonyx combines the qualities of both, whence its name. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
Van Busch was in the act of taking back the sardonyx signet-ring. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
The sard is the carnelian, while the sardonyx is a species of onyx. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Adonis, and across the veined sardonyx sped Artemis with her hounds. From Wordnik.com. [Intentions] Reference
Won't these quiet people feel lost among streets paved with beryl and sardonyx and jacinth?. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
White and reddish stripes alternating form the sardonyx; white and reddish gray, the chalcedony. From Wordnik.com. [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference
She took up the sardonyx and handed it to him to look at over her shoulder without turning round. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Pleasure] Reference
A city with foundations of jasper and chalcedony, emerald and sardonyx; gates of pearl, pavements of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Charlotte's Inheritance] Reference
The weapon and the three Kalis suddenly became one immense sardonyx that blazed huge and grand for a brief moment. From Wordnik.com. [Hunters Out of Space] Reference
Near her was a pyramid of diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, antique cameos, sardonyx stones, carved by the old Greeks of. From Wordnik.com. [Louise de la Valliere] Reference
He tilted the sack, and as each pumpkin rolled out upon the sardonyx pavement, a bewildered page sprang up in its stead. From Wordnik.com. [In Brief Authority] Reference
Then I loosened another stone from the crown -- a sardonyx -- and again I went out through the streets to the jeweller's. From Wordnik.com. [Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756] Reference
Our bodies are of the dust -- dusty, and bend dustward; but our souls floated down from the sardonyx walls of the Everlasting. From Wordnik.com. [St. Elmo] Reference
The sapphire was backed with sardonyx, and the bluish white of the chalcedony was half pellucid to the gold chrysolite behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Forces] Reference
And jade is there, dark green and milky white, with amber from Korea and strange gems -- beryl, chrysoprase, jasper, sardonyx. From Wordnik.com. [Profiles from China] Reference
Falco asked that he reserve an antique Babylonian seal cut in sardonyx and promised to send a messenger with its price before dark. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
These scarabs are usually cut in dark green jasper, some are made of cornelian, others of a glass-paste, rarely in amethyst or sardonyx. From Wordnik.com. [Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.] Reference
A sardonyx; which crown David ever after wore on his own head. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquities of the Jews] Reference
Book of Revelation by chalcedony, sardonyx, chrysoprase, and jacinth. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
By ways, that sunset's sardonyx. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Portrait of a youth cut in sardonyx. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Beneath branch-work of costly sardonyx. From Wordnik.com. [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference
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