" Olly looked at her, hesitated, and then reluctantly produced three very handsome agates from some outlying storehouse of his jacket.

On its shores the traveller gathers white and red agates, and sometimes specimens streaked with veins of gold color.

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

The lower part is so hard as to take a beautiful polish, when it resembles agate.

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.

"I only want my agates,my pretty, pretty agates!"