We were also shown the largest known onyx, nearly seven inches long

How's that, sweetness?" "Yep." "Poor little girl," he said, patting the black onyx, "with the bad old blues!

All, I observed, rose for a moment as Eveena's name was announced, from the further end of the hall, by the foremost of three or four persons vested in silver, with belts of the crimson metal which plays the part of our best-tempered steel, and bearing in their hands wands of a rose-coloured jewel resembling a clouded onyx in all but the hue.