cornelian

She gave him, too, a final token, an oval white cornelian."

Never have I seen or heard of such a thing; a pearl that for modesty transforms itself into a cornelian.

The Cornelian was a 1914 American automobile built expressly for racing.

But what have we to do with the opinion of a Russian teacher, with an expressive voice and a cornelian on his finger?

Cornelian (usually spelled "carnelian") is a reddish-brown variety of the mineral chalcedony.

Cornelian may also refer to:

In Harold Acton's 1928 book Cornelian a musician conducts "performances consisting largely of silence".

Cornelian, London, The Westminster Press, 1928.

Cornelian (Cornus mas) is a relative of our native flowering dogwood, eventually growing to a similar height of about 25 feet.

Materials used in the mosaics include enamel, polished stone, agate, onyx, jasper, cornelian, crystal, marble, and granite.

Terracotta figures, gem stones (cornelian, agate, etc.), and latter day inscriptions in Brahmi script have been found.

Cornelian Cherry Q. Lately around New York I have been seeing the same small, low-branching tree loaded with small yellow flowers.

If this is not to taste, then try the engraved gems in rock crystal, jasper and cornelian, or jewelry and metalwork in gold, silver and electrum.

The gem published for the first time on the title-page is a red cornelian in the British Museum, probably Graeco-Roman, and treated in an archaistic style.

"Cethegus is a patrician Cornelian, and such a smooth and syrupy sort of man that you'd make an enemy out of him-he can't deal with the direct approach.

Cylindrical and spherical shaped stone beads of Mingachevir made of cornelian, sardonyx, pyrite, lapis lazuli, serpentine were thoroughly inspected by G.G.Lemmleyn.

"He kept continually in his hand a polished, oval, white cornelian, the gift of his widowing love, and at times it seemed his only consolation, the only thing left him in this world clearly tangible.""

"Cornelian" refers to the similarity in color of the fruit to cornelian (or carnelian) quartz, which has a waxy luster and a deep-red, reddish-white, or flesh-red color.

Cornelian, cognate with similar words in several Romance languages, comes from the Mediaeval Latin corneolus, itself derived from the Latin word cornum, the cornel cherry, whose translucent red fruits resemble the stone.

In 1914, the Blood Brothers purchased the Allegan Mirror Company and ventured into the racing car industry with the production of the unique chain drive Cornelian driven by Louis Chevrolet in the 1915 Indy 500 race.

The Renaissance artists chiefly employed wood in making furniture, ornamenting it with gilding and painting, and inlaying it with agate, cornelian, lapis lazuli, marble of various tints, ivory, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, and various woods.

He was not a Cornelian of the Scipio branch, but the son of the conqueror of Macedonia, Lucius Aemilius Paullus, who gave him in adoption to the elder son of Scipio Africanus.

"These... rocks . . ." said Prospero, "include agate, jasper, lapis lazuli, bloodstone, and cornelians-there are more than thirty-five vari-eties of cornelian in this simple little carnation leaf where I set my hand on this screen, do you see?"

Cornelian Dende OFM (Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1915-31 August 1996) also known as "Father Justin," was a Polish-American Franciscan priest, director of "The Rosary Hour," a Polish-language weekly radio program from Buffalo, New York.

Immense quantities of very beautiful spar lay upon the surface in all directions; some of this was perfectly white, and veined like an agate--I believe it was white cornelian; other fragments, of sizes equalling sixty or seventy pounds weight, were beautifully green, suggesting the presence of copper.