How To Use Alcedo In A Sentence

Three gold rings from the Halicarnassian tomb of the fourth century B.C. Note in particular the chalcedony signet ring of a Persian soldier bottom, suggesting the loyalty that Artemisia had to Xerxes. The Battle of Salamis
The Brushy Basin sediments contain numerous chalcedony pseudomorph-after-barite concretions that range to more than 30 cm in diameter.
It is called la table des Grands Capitaines, and the porcelain top features great military commanders, represented here in a stunning imitation of antique calcedony cameos. French Porcelain
Ea ambage Chalcedonii monstrabantur quod priores illuc advecti, praevisa locorum utilitate pejora legissent Tacit. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.

Many ideas have been proposed for the development of chalcedony and the banding in agate.
Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
The matrix is composed of microgranular quartz with some fibrous chalcedony.
The sequence is grey granite below, the band of chalcedony, and above it a curious schistose gneiss-formation. The Land of Midian
Concretions of chalcedony after barite can be confused with cycads, and the wise collector must learn to differentiate between the two.
Upon the last southern table (23) are ranged further varieties of calcedony. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
The many semi-precious stones which have a quartz basis (such as the varieties of waxy or cryptocrystalline chalcedony which is largely quartz in a very minutely crystalline condition) are often even tougher than the clear crystallized quartz. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
They were often made of semiprecious stones such as chalcedony, rock crystal, and lapis lazuli. Jeweler's Wheel Secrets
Heaney expected to find that the quartz in tiger's-eye was chalcedony, a form that typically consists of fibrous, defect-riddled crystals less than 1 micrometer in diameter.
Other minerals mentioned from the mine by Dunham include galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcedony, and minor marcasite and pyrrhotite.
The Stephen Webster Silver Collection is made from sterling silver, 18-karat gold and gemstones such as jade, chalcedony, goldstone, hematite and white agate. Christina Aguilera Stephen Webster Performance May 31st Pure Las Vegas
New glass techniques included avventurina (metal flecks embedded in glass for a sparkly look) and calcedonio (illusion of semiprecious stones), raised decorations on glass, and millefiori beads. Glasses Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
4. Council of Chalcedon (451); repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism (the human nature subsumed in the one divine nature of Jesus) and delineated the two natures of Christ, human and divine. Notes from my CCU presentation
The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
The most spectacular inclusions are bands of native copper that are in and follow the chalcedony concentric banding of the agate.
Among the chalcedonies are the sardonyx, agates, and cornelian. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
There is a kind of onyx called a chalcedony, which hath the same qualities, [4151] avails much against fantastic illusions which proceed from melancholy, preserves the vigour and good estate of the whole body. Anatomy of Melancholy
‘That's chalcedony,’ Corissa remarked, her eyes focusing on the translucent gray capstones of the wall.
The former habit is best known as the diagnostic morphology exhibited by stilbite; the latter is seen in many minerals, from malachite to chalcedony to goethite.
Salcedo was interested in the precarious nature of the materials, the fragility of the hair.
Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
The ivory horns were heaped with purple amethysts, and the horns of brass with chalcedonies and sards. The Fisherman and His Soul
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Common cements include clay minerals such as kaolinite, montmorillonite, or illite; quartz or chalcedony; iron oxides such as haematite; or calcite.
Tradition makes him subsequently bishop of Chalcedon, in Bithynia. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Some of the nodules are hollow and filled with crystals, others have a nucleus of less compact siliceous matter which is generally white, surrounded with many concentric strata coloured with iron, and other alternate strata of white agate or calcedony, sometimes to the number of thirty. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
The bishop of Jerusalem, who had been given the title of patriarch in 451 by the Council of Chalcedon, had jurisdiction over Palestine.
There were built-up fabrics, called _Charlottes_, caky externally, pulpy within; there were also _marangs_, and likewise custards, -- some of the indolent-fluid sort, others firm, in which every stroke of the teaspoon left a smooth, conchoidal surface like the fracture of chalcedony, with here and there The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
Calcite and barite actually crystallize after the formation of chalcedony and quartz cease and often infill or possibly cause subsequent fracturing of the agate.
The carnelian fortifications in these limbs are typical of the colorful chalcedony serving as cementing agents in conglomerates and replacing barite crystals and other fossils in the Brushy Basin sediments.
Top lot will be the cover of a chalcedony cup dating from the 16th century, featuring Venus and Cupid cradled together within a scallop shell and framed by a silver gilt mount in the form of Jupiter as a swan. A Week of Masters Descends
Slowest-forming and most beautiful of all, huge crystals of amethyst, agate, chalcedony and rock crystal grow where condensed water has managed to seep into naturally insulated rock crevices.
The shoots and stalks themselves are casts composed of combinations of chalcedony, quartz, calcite, and barite.
In clarifying orthodox Christology (the doctrine of Jesus Christ), the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) laid the foundation of Western liberty.
-- OED ochlophobic ephemera: ABC & EP on abortion, seminaries, the thoughts of the dead, usual ochlophobic topics ... this opinion piece by ABC Williams does not articulate what I would consider by any means a sufficiently strong and clear stand against abortion, it strikes me as closer to a pro-life position than anything I have heard from the Ecumenical Patriarch on the issue, and strikes me as a more coherent position than the one articulated by +Bartholomew which was noted in Nearly identical in tone and spirit [to a statement made by an Armenian bishop], and lack of any clear, prophetic teaching are statements made by His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople when he visited San Francisco in 1990 as the metropolitan of Chalcedon as part of the entourage of the then Patriarch Dimitrios of blessed memory. The Ochlophobist
Councils -- e.g. Chalcedon -- seem to be due to very successful tachygraphy. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Ea ambage Chalcedonii monstrabantur quod priores illuc advecti, praevisa locorum utilitate pejora legissent History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
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Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
On St. Flavian II. of Antioch, banished by the emperor Anastasius with St. Elias of Jerusalem, for their zeal in defending the council of Chalcedon against the The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
The guests will also include two explorers, friends of the bridegroom Miguel de la Quadra Salcedo (a well-known explorer of the Andes and other parts of South America), and a Mount Everest summiteer.
The various colors of chalcedony have their own names: jasper when brown, carnelian when red or reddish-brown, chrysoprase when green, agate when banded with different colors. Quartz
Stone-age; and, somewhat curiously, the locality of that stone blade is fixed, by its being of that semi-transparent opalescent calcedony which Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
Groutite is observed as small, lustrous black, acicular crystals to 1/8 inch long that occur directly on the quartz or chalcedony.
Not until the councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon, three and four centuries, respectively, after the death of Jesus, did the custodians of his memory succeed in codifying Who Do Men Say That I Am?
His poems utilise the abstract power of language in a way that is paralleled by Salcedo's use of pared down, concrete physical form.
In fact, seventeen of the fifty-seven sites are specifically listed for agate, chalcedony, chert, jasper, or petrified wood.
The stones used include red jasper, white oriental alabaster, yellow chalcedony, and green gabbro.
In Alexandria, Egypt, one of the first Greek anatomists to publicly dissect human cadavers, Herophilus of Chalcedon, determines that arteries are thicker than veins and carry blood.
Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
These basalts were covered with a mammiform substance, which I vainly sought on the Peak of Teneriffe, and which is known by the names of volcanic glass, glass of Muller, or hyalite: it is the transition from the opal to the chalcedony. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
She had filled her pockets with specimens of obsidian, jaspers, and chalcedonies, of colors most beautiful, with a deep-dyed opaqueness, a shell-fracture, and a satiny polish like jade. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories
The French examples, typically with chalcedony handles and shagreen cases, are of the very finest workmanship.
A well-known locality for agate or chalcedony nodules in rhyolite (thunder eggs) is near the Twin Mountains, northwest of Del Norte in Saguache County.
As to the second, of which the name does not occur in treatises on gems, it may be identified with chalcedony, which is described as a sort of agate of an opaque quality, dimmed with clouds and flashing fires in the shadows. The Cathedral
Silica precipitated from aqueous solution at low temperatures gives cryptocrystalline varieties such as opal, jasper, chalcedony, agate, carnelian, onyx, flint, and chert.
Here and there the scarlet martagon (Lilium chalcedonicum), bright blue or yellow gingers; red, orange, yellow, and pure white orchids; pale lobelias, &c.; but they do not mar the general greenness. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
These other forms of silica include opal, chalcedony, flint and chert (non-crystalline), and cristobalite, tridymite, coesite, and stichovite. Quartz
The floor of the cavern was covered with heaps of water-worn fragments of quartzose rock, containing copper pyrites, in some of which the cavities were covered by a deposit of greenish calcedony. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
The next two cases (21, 22) are devoted to the varieties of common quartz, including the flexible sandstones of Brazil (of which there are some larger specimens upon a separate table) and to those of the east; milk quartz; the Salzburg blue quartz, &c.; some varieties of the cat's eye; hornstones, including wood changed into hornstone: and herein begin the flints, including some specimens changing into calcedony, smalt blue calcedony from Transylvania; the Icelandic stalactical calcedony; and the fine Cornish calcedony. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
Clutching the small lapis and chalcedony box in her hand, she hastened up the coralite steps. The Hand of Chaos
Having sufficiently examined these beautiful varieties of calcedony, the visitor should pass at once to the northern range of tables. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
But Augustine was a Chalcedonian before Chalcedon, and there is no doubt that he is here quoting familiar Scripture and filling it with the interpretation achieved by the long struggle of the Church to affirm the coeternity and consubstantiality of Jesus Christ and God the Father. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
Red chalcedony-lined geodes were prevalent at one time, their inclusions typically being quartz, calcite, ferroan dolomite, and iron sulfide microcrystals.
Around here there's plenty of good flint - schist and chalcedony and other good stuff not half a mile from here. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
Vein minerals are barite, calcite, chalcedony, and quartz.
These include Neolithic tools made from chalcedony as well as nephrite objects from Ancient China.
The floor of the cavern was covered with heaps of water-worn fragments of quartzoze rock containing copper pyrites, in some of which the cavities were covered by a deposit of greenish calcedony. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
The chalcedony may be banded or it may contain ‘pseudo-algal’ structures that are of special interest to collectors and lapidaries.
The fine-grained sediment of the matrix is composed chiefly of microgranular quartz, although chalcedony with a fibrous texture is sometimes found.
Anti-Chalcedonians" was the term appropriated by everyone in Asia who took sides against the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
There is a kind of onyx called a chalcedony, which hath the same qualities, [4151] avails much against fantastic illusions which proceed from melancholy, preserves the vigour and good estate of the whole body. Anatomy of Melancholy
The diamonds of this district are noted for their purity and lustre, and are generally associated with other crystals -- garnets, agates, quartz and chalcedonies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Neolithic tools like points, trapezes and lunates made of chert and chalcedony, besides stone querns and grinders, decorated bone objects, pieces of ochre and human burials were also found here.
The carnelian is a siliceous stone and a species of chalcedony. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
He informed us all about internal fires and tertiary formations; about äeriforms, fluidiforms, and solidiforms; about quartz and marl; about schist and schorl; about gypsum and trap; about talc and calc; about blende and horn-blende; about mica-slate and pudding-stone; about cyanite and lepidolite; about hematite and tremolite; about antimony and calcedony; about manganese and whatever you please. Tales.
I don't see how the claim "'X is human' does not entail 'X is mortal' unqualifiedly" presupposes the issue at hand; for one can reject and, I imagine, many do the claim that being human entails being mortal without any acceptance of the doctrine of Incarnation, the Chalcedonian definition, or reduplicative analysis. Archive 2005-01-01
Groutite is observed as small, lustrous black, acicular crystals to 1/8 inch long that occur directly on the quartz or chalcedony.
There were rich red garnets, variegated jaspers, chalcedonies and agates of many hues mingled with rock-crystals. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
Chalcedon so long as they earnestly endeavoured to teach the heathen the rudiments of the faith and to love the Lord in incorruptness. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
It was one of the stones on the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28: 20; R.V. marg., "chalcedony;" 39: 13). Easton's Bible Dictionary
In fact, seventeen of the fifty-seven sites are specifically listed for agate, chalcedony, chert, jasper, or petrified wood.
Allochems (peloids, oolites) with oncolites & intercolumnal detritus, anthraxolite (dark), chert & chalcedony (matrix), hematite (red), ankerite (white/light colored rhombohedra), algal laminae are all visible in image. Stromatolites - The Panda's Thumb
Other minerals mentioned from the mine by Dunham include galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcedony, and minor marcasite and pyrrhotite.
Of the seven necklaces pictured here, all purchased recently, three are varieties of chalcedony, which is itself a type of microcrystalline quartz. WalesOnline - Home
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The formation is composed largely of dark limestone and dolomite, and contains black chalcedonic chert in fine laminated layers, a piece of which is displayed near the bottom of this page.
Furthermore Oehler had previously shown that the silica minerals quartz and chalcedony critically important in the petrification of wood, can be made, rapidly in the laboratory from silica gel.
In fact, seventeen of the fifty-seven sites are specifically listed for agate, chalcedony, chert, jasper, or petrified wood.
The coarsely crystalline veins are composed predominantly of colorless barite and quartz and white chalcedony.
He informed us all about internal fires and tertiary formations; about äeriforms, fluidiforms, and solidiforms; about quartz and marl; about schist and schorl; about gypsum and trap; about talc and calc; about blende and horn-blende; about mica-slate and pudding-stone; about cyanite and lepidolite; about hematite and tremolite; about antimony and calcedony; about manganese and whatever you please. Tales.
In the spring of 1968, Stepanov together with amateurs B. Kantor and E. Kurdyukov discovered the now-famous manifestation of hollow agates with chalcedony pseudostalactites in the Moscow region.
The collection today has eight vases executed by the Baroviers in calcedonio glass, which imitates chalcedony, banded agate, and other semiprecious stones.
Slowest-forming and most beautiful of all, huge crystals of amethyst, agate, chalcedony and rock crystal grow where condensed water has managed to seep into naturally insulated rock crevices.
The collection today has eight vases executed by the Baroviers in calcedonio glass, which imitates chalcedony, banded agate, and other semiprecious stones.
Monotheletism at once became among the adherents of Chalcedon a burning question. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
The stones used include red jasper, white oriental alabaster, yellow chalcedony, and green gabbro.
The photos show that the material is extremely fine grained and relatively featureless in plain light; in crossed nicols it gives a botryoidal effect similar to that seen in chalcedony.
Or, again, if we borrow from Pope Innocent III. his ideas as to the mystical meanings of gems, we find that chalcedony, which is pale in the light and sparkles in the dark, is synonymous with humility; the topaz with chastity and the merit of good works, while the chrysoprase, the queen of minerals, implies wisdom and watchfulness. The Cathedral
_Chalcedony_ too (which when banded furnishes us our _agates_, and when reddish our _carnelian_) is a variety of quartz, and _prase_ is only quartz colored green by fibers of actinolite within it. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
The exact minutes of some of the Councils - e.g. Chalcedon - seem to be due to very successful tachygraphy.
Calcite and barite actually crystallize after the formation of chalcedony and quartz cease and often infill or possibly cause subsequent fracturing of the agate.
This highly silicified cycad contained bright red-orange to black, diamond-shaped leaf bases of chalcedony up to several centimeters across separated by zones of greenish-yellow chalcedony.
The smooth edge of the circular disc is then charged with diamond dust and oil, the diamond dust being bedded into the edge of the metal disc by the pressure of some hard, fine-grained material, such as chalcedony, or rolled into the metal by the use of a rotating roller. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
Many ideas have been proposed for the development of chalcedony and the banding in agate.
Ceraunia, engendered by the thunder, sparkled by the side of chalcedonies, which are a cure for poison. Salammbo
The depictions of birds and flowers were executed in precious materials including lapis lazuli, agate, Sicilian red and green jasper, chalcedony, amethyst and quartz as well as superb hard stones.
_Agates_" are banded chalcedonies, the variety called "_onyx_" having very regular bands, and the "_sardonyx_" being an onyx agate in which some of the bands are of reddish sard. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
On St. Flavian II. of Antioch, banished by the emperor Anastasius with St. Elias of Jerusalem, for their zeal in defending the council of Chalcedon against the The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
From top: Siegelson antique archaeological revival gold and chalcedony brooch by Castellani, ca. 1880, price upon request, Siegelson, 212-832-2666; Bottega Veneta Milk silver bracelet $790 left and Magma silver bracelet $1,290 Bottegaveneta.com ; Stephen Russell Victorian 18k yellow gold agate pearl ruby and hard stone brooch, ca. Cue the Cameo
These other forms of silica include opal, chalcedony, flint and chert (non-crystalline), and cristobalite, tridymite, coesite, and stichovite. Quartz

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