"Chalcedony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the chapel are all incrusted with gorgeous marbles and precious stones, from malachite, porphyry, lapis-lazuli, chalcedony, agate, to all the finer and more expensive gems which shone in Aaron's ephod. When one considers that an ear-ring or a brooch, half an inch long, of Florentine mosaic work, costs five or six dollars, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various
... and these wildflowers are but poor memorials {3} of one so great as Keats; most of all, too, in this city of Rome, which pays such honour to her dead; where popes, and emperors, and saints, and cardinals lie hidden in 'porphyry wombs,' or couched in baths of jasper and chalcedony and malachite, ablaze with precious stones and metals, and tended with continual service. For very noble is the site, and worthy of a noble monument; behind looms the grey pyramid, symbol of the world's age, and filled with memories ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde
... one or two common crystals, and some jasper, and a piece of chalcedony all in little bubbles, but no diamond. Falcon said ...
— A Simpleton • Charles Reade |
