Which preposition to use with agates
A great variety of such rare and singular productions of nature may be seen at the British Museum: but nothing can be more extraordinary in this respect than what is related concerning the agate of Pyrrhus, which represented, naturally, Apollo holding a lyre, with the nine muses distinguished each by their attributes.
They were mostly black agates with white veins and were called Sonko apatsinakux (mutual heart-carriers).
He was a cosmopolite; he was polished to the hardness of agate by a life spent in many lands.
" Olly looked at her, hesitated, and then reluctantly produced three very handsome agates from some outlying storehouse of his jacket.
At the foot of a mass of rock, which looked like amethyst or wine-red agate in that marvellous evening light, the old man was lying, and Dash was with him.
It was bright as day; so clear was the lake, that the agates near the shore sparkled in its waters.