" "And Nick knows all about you?" For a moment the agate, catlike eyes of the colonel clouded and cleared again in their unfathomable manner.

" In the same way the agate was said to render a person invisible, and to turn the swords of foes against themselves.

Then more beds of different fashion, and an agate vase carved with the figure of a man aiming an arrow at a lion, and finally a costly table, which had once belonged to King Solomon.

Once home he said to the genie: "Build me a palace of the finest marble, set with jasper, agate, and other precious stones.

The walls 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.

There are pieces of exquisite agate which were once soft wood.

Gate, in the Northern Dialect, signifies a way; so that agate is at or upon the way.

It seemed to him, as he looked at her, that the treasures of St. Mark's, the jewelled chalices and patens, the agate and crystal vessels, the reliquaries of gold and precious stones, the candlesticks, the two textus covers of golden cloisonné, and even the turquoise cup itself, turned dull and wan and common by comparison with her beauty.

And the two agate balls over there are the Cat.

An enthusiastic custodian gave me a list of the stones which were used in the designs of the coats of arms of Tuscan cities, of which that of Fiesole is the most attractive:Sicily jasper, French jasper, Tuscany jasper, petrified wood, white and yellow, Corsican granite, Corsican jasper, Oriental alabaster, French marble, lapis lazuli, verde antico, African marble, Siena marble, Carrara marble, rose agate, mother of pearl, and coral.

Arrow-heads made of flint, quartz, agate and jaspar, can easily be found by the relic hunter.

A whole heap of unset diamonds were in an agate box.

"The Ferroe Isles, belonging to Denmark, are seventeen in number; they produce agate, jasper, and beautiful zeolites, and export feathers, eider-down, caps, stockings, tallow, and salted mutton.

He was a cosmopolite; he was polished to the hardness of agate by a life spent in many lands.

Almost like an agate.

An agate table easily diverts his eyes from the most capital strokes of Rubens, and a Turkey carpet has more charms than a Titian.

And your seraglio is tenanted by very beautiful words, I grant you, thought there is no longer any Sestos builded of agate and crystal, either, Kit Marlowe.

He's allus agate o' saucin our mester is yonhe reckons he's th' owdest member o' th' Club, an' my 'usband he's turned seventy, an' he's walked fifty-two times.

At th' dinner yonder, at th' Thornleigh Arms, soombry 'll allus get up an' call for th' 'ealth o' th' owdest member, an' then th' two owd lads 'ull get agate o' bargin' one another, an' Upton folks 'ull be backin' up Martin, an' th' Thornleigh folks 'ull be backin' up Robert, an' they mak' sich a din, they say as nobry can hear theirsel's speak.

Ye mind how he allus got agate o' boastin' about bein' th' owdest member o' th' Club?

"If I was to get agate o' coortin' Margaret Hep., hoo'd be fain enough.

"I thought I'd forgot it, but my tongue seems to turn to it when I get agate o' talkin' wi' Lancashire folks.

I wur jest agate with the next lot when ye coom in.

An' I geet agate o' cryin' an' axin' mysel wheer was heaven, an' was hoo raly theer.

The walls were covered to the ceiling with rows of goblets, vases, etc., of polished jasper, agate, and lapis lazuli.