In Greece and Rome the art of cameo cutting was brought to astonishing perfection, the sardonyx being frequently used, and often cut in five different coloured layers.
The similarity of the convex sardonyx to an eye often struck the ancients, and may account for this stone being frequently found unengraved in rings, and set in a collet, itself shaped into the form of a human eye.
In the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris are two portrait cameos in sardonyx (Nos.
The Cameo of Charles V of France, a sardonyx of three layers, dating from Imperial Roman times, represents a full length figure of Jupiter.
In the centre of this jewel is a beautifully cut cameo portrait in sardonyx of Queen Elizabeth in a frame of translucent blue and green on opaque white enamel, set alternately with rubies and table diamonds.
Sardonyx is Mr. Walraven's lawyer, and silence is a lawyer's forte.
Mr. Sardonyx is the plainest man I ever let make love to me, and even he was not absolutely plain.
He had not gone home, but he had notified Mr. Sardonyx of his presence in town, and signified that that gentleman was to wait upon him immediately.
If you don't ask Mollie Dane to-night, Hugh Ingelow or James Sardonyx will to-morrow, and the chances are ten to one she accepts the first one who proposes.
And if it turns out to be Sardonyx or Oleander--and I have a presentiment that it's the latter--what then?
Mr. Sardonyx bowed and took his hat and his departure at once.
Mr. Sardonyx is with her now," said Mollie, "arranging matters.
Mr. Sardonyx made this extraordinary statement with a queer smile just hovering about the corners of his legal mouth.
I do want Doctor Oleander and Mr. Sardonyx to propose; and if they discover I've accepted the baronet, they won't.
When she had concluded her strange prayer, she crossed the chamber hastily, and, tossing the velvet cushions and striped silk covering from one of the divans, there was disclosed an ancient tomb of carved sardonyx that was crumbling by age.
Again the corpse that had been awakened from its sardonyx casket bowed and raised its hands aloft in obedience to her request, as we all three watched the censer.
Summoning courage at last, she allowed herself to be carried on over the bloodstained floors of polished sardonyx and agate into the great arcaded courts, with their columns of marble, plashing fountains, and cool palms.
A few moments later, Zoraida beckoned me, and, standing beside the great sardonyx tomb, I peered in.
The Oriental sardonyx was not available for the purposes of the Renaissance artists, who were consequently obliged to content themselves with the colder German agate onyx.
Hardly less precious than the cameos in sardonyx were the imitations carved out of coloured glass.
It is a sardonyx of five layers of irregular shape, like all classical gems, measuring 12 in.
The eagle stone and iris were supposed to promote an easy delivery, and the sardonyx was laid inter mammas to procure an easy birth; a sardonyx formerly belonged to the monastery of St. Albans to be used for this purpose.
It is a sardonyx cup upon a pedestal, with handles of vine stalks, and covered with bas-reliefs.
As it is our duty to present unto God oblations of gems and of gold, I, Suger, offer this vase unto the Lord," is the inscription upon an antique sardonyx amphora which he converted into a vessel for the altar.
And I wondered if it would be the sardonyx or the ruby, and hoped it would be the ruby.
He tried the ruby and sardonyx in turn against the silk and rejected both--he took a garnet.
IV Afar There is something that seems a shore; The sky has been blown clean of clouds except to westward, And these stare hard at me, like huge sardonyx towers.
Out here the decks are shattered, The boats are shorn away, And far on the horizon, The city glares with its sardonyx towers.
Onyx and sardonyx are varieties of agate in which the layers are in even planes of uniform thickness.
Onyx and sardonyx which come from the Orient are esteemed of much higher value in trade at the present time than those prepared in Germany.
A sardonyx upon which Queen Elizabeth's portrait was cut constituted the stone of the famous ring which she gave the Earl of Essex as a pledge of her friendship.
Sardonyx is a particular variety of onyx in which one of the layers has the brown color of sard.
The sardonyx was supposed by the ancients to be a different stone from the onyx.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sardonyx" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: diamond; emerald; jade; ruby; sapphire; stone
