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The house is most magnificently built without, nor less gloriously furnished within, having whole tables and bedsteads of massy silver, many of them sett with achates, onyxes, cornelians, lazulis, pearls, turquizes, and other precious stones.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward

It was Lent, when the amethysts fade in the moist grey of onyxes, in the embrowned white of quartz, and the magnificent invocation, "Attende Domine," rose beneath the arches.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

As for her eyes, the customary similes of the court poets were gigantic onyxes or ebony highly polished and wet with May dew.

From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch

His eyes were large and insolent, coloured like onyxes; for the rest, he had a handsome surly face which was disfigured by pimples.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch

The walls of the rooms in the palaces are covered with such stones as agates, onyxes, jasper, cornelian, lapis-lazuli, etc., inlaid in mosaic work, representing flowers, birds, arabesques, and other figures. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Pfeiffer, Ida