Holman took the long greenstone knife, and we crept quietly away in the direction taken by Kaipi.
It was one of the three nude natives that had rushed by us on the trail a few hours before, and he clasped in his right hand a long knife of New Zealand greenstone that had been inlaid with gold in an intricate design.
The biggest and the littlest girl in the deputation then stepped forward and presented the Royal visitor with a tiny greenstone memento, purchased for him by the school-children themselves.
Some of the greenstone is handsomely porphorytic, and embraces green crystals of feldspar.
Trap and greenstoneconstitute prominent tracts, and exist in the condition of dykes in the syenite, or feldspathique granite.
Not that the original fissure is narrower where the greenstone occurs, but because more of the space is there filled with veinstones, and the waters at such points have not parted so freely with their metallic contents.
In Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craig, near Edinburgh, a sandstone which comes in contact with greenstone is converted into a jaspideous rock.
The rock of Stirling Castle is a calcareous sandstone, fractured and forcibly displaced by a mass of greenstone which has evidently invaded the strata in a melted state.
A Scotch provincial term for greenstone and other hard trap rocks.
At the junction of greenstone dikes with limestone, a sahlband, or selvage, of serpentine is occasionally observed.
In these instances, the greenstone of the dike is usually more tough and hard than the sandstone; but chemical action, and chiefly the oxidation of the iron, has given rise to the more rapid decay.
Accordingly, one of the greenstone dikes of Antrim, on passing through a bed of coal, reduces it to a cinder for the space of 9 feet on each side.
Here the coals, with all their associate strata, assume conformity and parallelism with the face of the sienitic-greenstone strata of the Ochill mountains c; being raised to the high angle of 73 degrees with the horizon.
And, 3 of Felsobanya; ores also of auriferous sulphuret of silver, occur in veins of sienite and greenstone porphyry.
The gold exists in spangles and in grains, disseminated among fragments of greenstone and porphyry.
When augitic and hornblendic materials predominate, then other terms are used; as, for example, dolerite tuff, greenstone tuff.
In the range of the greenstone about two leagues south of this point, a vein of native copper, with ores and veinstones, was observed, and specimens taken.
Rapids were encountered at various points, at which there appeared large boulders of syenite and greenstone trap.
At this distance, rapids commence, and the bed of the river exhibited greenstone and gneissoid boulders.
One stone celt made of a hard mottled greenstone (=Fig.
Had my reviewer read the remarks in my book at page 147, regarding this polished greenstone hatchet, he would hardly have selected it to prove that this crannog existed during the neolithic age.
The rock on both banks was clay-slate, much altered by heat, often very hard, and with numerous quartz veins; no moregreenstone was observed.
Several of these prominent spurs consisted of trap rocks, various forms of basalt and greenstone occurring, with not unfrequently veins of coarse serpentine.
But the conic hills just mentioned, are not invariably the form under which the greenstone appears.
Following the watercourses, which are sunk considerable distance below the surface, the line of separation from the sandstone on which the greenstone rests, at length becomes visible on account of the descent of the surface.
Amygdaloid--Sometimes containing argil, and sometimes hornblende, occurs with the greenstone about the sources of the Canadian river, constituting with the former the newest fletz trap formation.
Among them we distinguish two kinds, referable to the two divisions called greenstone and amygdaloid.
Greenstone is more frequently associated with the trappean rocks, but it sometimes passes imperceptibly into syenite and common granite.
Hitchcock supposes this greenstone range to be, not an injected dike, but a tabular mass of ancient lava, which was spread out on the bed of the ocean during the period of the deposition of the Connecticut river sandstone.
An immense mass of greenstone trap, which has generally been considered as a vast dike, though often a mile in thickness, is found extending from New Haven to Northampton, on the west side of the Connecticut river.
The people declare that this greenstone contains copper, and Professor Smith found particles in his specimens.
These bare spots showed dull green and gray, the famous greenstone of the Canadian prospectors who had made lucky strikes.
Come prepared to knock off a few samples of greenstone with a geologist's hammer, and fly back to base to have 'em assayed before supper.
Then there arose a dispute about the ownership of a tangiwai (greenstone pendant).
With these fragments of pottery were found four entire oval pottery vases, each about 4 inches high, standing on three short legs, each containing a few clay and polished greenstone beads.
Each of these vessels contained a single small polished greenstone bead.
Nearer the center of the floor of the chamber were found two small cubical objects of light greenstone 1 cm.
Figure 77 is a mask, rather crudely cut from greenstone and unpolished.
Close to these were found a small three-legged earthenware bead vase, containing two pottery and one small polishedgreenstone bead, together with one eccentrically shaped flint object.
The greenstone shell from Kendal, described later on, in its fineness of finish and accurate imitation of the natural form, is a remarkable example of gem cutting.
Each of these five vessels, with the exception of the plaque, contained a single polished greenstone bead.
Round the neck were worn strings of beads, some in the form of human or animal heads, others with a gorget of greenstone or shell in the form of a human mask dependent from them.
Ornaments in the form of human and animal faces and heads nicely cut from jadeite and greenstone are not uncommon.
Close to the pots were found a small jadeite face and three greenstone beads or pendants.
The only weapons or implements we could discover in the barrow were two neatly chipped flint arrowheads, and a very delicate ground greenstone hatchet, or tomahawk.
I have myself had pressed upon my attention as genuine lightning stones, in the West Indies, the exquisitely polished greenstone tomahawks of the old Carib marauders.
A shot, which had been intended for his body, struck the greenstone blade, and shattered the faithful weapon into a hundred fragments, leaving only the butt in Aratangata's hand.
Their reputed wealth in greenstone had aroused his avarice, while the prospect of acquiring additional territory appealed strongly to his love of power.
Niho and Takerei settled at Mawhera, on the banks of the Grey River, the centre of that romantic region, the greenstone country, which for centuries had been the Eldorado of Maori dreams.
Every tribe throughout Maoridom prized greenstone above everything else, and strove to acquire it.
The exception referred to was Te Aratangata, who happened to be at the northern end of the pa, and was at this juncture bargaining to secure a famous greenstone mere called by the Ngai-Tahu people "Te Rau-hikihiki.
One of these, Moimoi, rose and challenged Te Pehi's right to purloin his greenstone in that unceremonious fashion.
Not only did he feel it necessary to reiterate his assurances that nothing but a desire to trade for greenstone had brought him to Kaiapoi, but he did more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greenstone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
