In other cases, the individual fragments may be built up of irregular longitudinal bands, so as to give the general effect of an agate breccia, as in a fine bowl at South Kensington.
When the contorted bands are continuous we have another important type, founded apparently upon the endless varieties of banded agate and other native stones that have been formed by slow deposition in the hollows of rocks.
Footnote 278: As arranged now at South Kensington, the carved glass may be compared with the companion series inagate and other stones.
I made a great addition to my stock of curiosities yesterday in an agate dagger and cup, and I had a great miss this morning of some trays and cups japanned in Cashmere.
Thursday we began poking about to find shawls and agate curiosities, which are supposed to abound at Umritzir; but our native servants are afraid of going into the bazaars: they say the Sikhs laugh at them and their dress.
Yesterday my search for small agate curiosities was rather successful; and the shawls here are not despicable by any means, and very cheap, but I happen to have spent all my money.
Our agate mania still continues, and there is no end to the curiosities that have been brought to light, or the price to which they have risen.
So I got agate o' swimmin' an' kept at it for wellnigh ten minutes.
She then introduces the ends of the filaments from several cocoons into small dies of agate or porcelain, which are held over the basin by a support.
It was called in the inventory of the chapel le Grand Camahieu and the Agate de Tibère; it is, indeed, the largest known, and is of most exquisite workmanship.
But I, by this time provoked, was glad to annoy her, and blindly flung a couple of the remaining agate balls with force into the midst of her army.
My opponent scolded and abused me; but, being now in full play, I stooped to pick up some agate balls which rolled about upon the golden lances.
Take out, set on a rack in an agate pan, pour the liquor underneath, and bake slowly one to two hours, according to size.
Line an agate or earthen pie dish two to three inches deep, with very good crust, rolled thin, but not stretched nor dragged.
Peach Liqueur: Peel a peck of very ripe, very juicy peaches, cut from the seed, weigh, and pack down in earthen or agate ware with their own weight in granulated sugar.
Put in earthen or agate ware, with sugar, spices and a little water, cover close and cook half to three quarters of an hour, according to bulk.
Saw off shank and hip bones neatly, and cut the meat smooth, removing any tags and jags, then pack down in an agate or clean wooden vessel that has been scalded, then chilled.
Mercutio speaks of the "agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman.
In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the fore-finger of an alderman.
Agate was used metaphorically for a very diminutive person, in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings.
Hero speaks of a man as being "low, an agate very vilely cut.
It curdled the will to kill that had blazed from the beast's agate eyes.
Out of the bloody mask of his face his agate eyes twinkled at Rainey with a sort of good-natured malice.
Lund, no longer a blind Samson, with contempt in his agate eyes, surveyed the scattering group of men who stared at the dead man dully, as if gripped by the exhibition of a miracle.
Rainey saw his face, one red mask of blood and hair, with his agate eyes flaring up with the glory of the fight.
When an ore requires to be very finely ground in an agate mortar, it is often advisable to mix with a little pure alcohol and rub until free from grit; dry at 100° C.
It is thus examined:--The sample after bruising on an iron plate, is reduced to a very fine powder by grinding in an agate mortar.
He wore moss-agate sleeve buttons, and carried a stem-winding watch.
He wasn't succeeding very well, for just as he would get the beets driven into the ground securely, the zephyr would spring up from the south and blow the moss-agate asparagus all over the military reservation.
The wind was blowing pretty fresh, as it sometimes does in this lovely clime, and Tue Long was trying to hold down some vulcanized rubber beets, and moss-agate asparagus.
Ackronnion was to go by the way of the steps with his harp and an agate bowl, while Arrath went round by a crag on the other side.
The the beast wept as the frore hills weep in the thaw, and the tears splashed big into the agate bowl.
And not long after Ackronnion sang again in the sylvan palace of the Queen of the Woods, having first drunk all the tears in his agate bowl.
Never dry them on the stove as that causes them to crack; and do not knock the edges of the kettles and saucepans with a spoon, nor strike any kind of a vessel with an agate spoon, as it causes the little particles of glazing to flake off.
These flakes from agate utensils often work serious injury to the delicate membranes of the digestive tract.
Brown in wire broiler or lay in agate pan and bake in hot oven.
For a richer dish, turn mixed melted butter, sugar and lemon juice over bananas in lengthwise halves in agate pan.
Trumese A la Mode= Cook together chopped onion and carrot and fine sliced celery, drain and spread over slices of broiled trumese which have been laid on an agate baking pan.
To Scramble a Large Quantity of Eggs= Break 3 or 4 dozens of eggs into an oiled agate or aluminum kettle, add salt and water, beat slightly and set kettle into hot water.
The agate parts disclose flowers and patterns deep in the body of the bead and thin shafts of opaque colors running from the center to the surface.
Then he finished his work, the reading of a letter, placed it under an agate paper weight, and turned to the newcomer.
Then he placed the open letter on top of the one beneath the agate paper weight, tore up the envelope, and threw the two fragments into the waste paper basket behind him.
On the little finger of the bare hand held out for the muff shone the agate that none but MacIntyres had owned since the days of Malcolm the Second.
The answer came in the shape of an old heirloom, a Scotch agatethat had been handed down in the family, almost since the days of Malcolm the Second.
He wanted me to drift a rapid stern-first, as the agate hunters were wont to do it.
This was wilfully streaked, mottled and quasi-accidentally varied; some of it was opalescent; much of it was more likeagate or onyx than jewels.
The colour is brought up by means of rubbing withagate burnishers.
The gold-leaf is then laid on, and rubbed in with agate burnishers, when it adheres by catching into the prepared scratched surface.
Brass pivot holes are much less affected by the drying of the oil than agate holes would be; and, in the absence of experiment, we must assume that this would be the case with ruby or other jewels.
When the oil is perfectly fresh, agate and steel have a very low coefficient of friction.
We powdered them again in an agate mortar, and then remarked that the magnetical bar raised up some of the smallest every time they are placed under it.
A bit of flint or agate is then held firmly against the edge of the wheel and the latter is rotated two or three times by hand.
By burnishing the brilliance is improved (I used an agate burnisher and oil), but a little of the aluminium is rubbed off.
Then,' said the fisherman, 'they dropped off and went agate o' the flitters.
For he had on the loveliest gaiters in the world, of thin white buckskin with agate buttons, and breeches of silk, and a long brocaded waistcoat, and a short coat of rich purple velvet, also a riding hat with a gray ostrich plume.
