moss-agate

His eyes, which have been variously described, were, it seemed to me, of an indescribable depth of the bluish moss-agate, with a capacity of pupil dilation that in certain lights had the effect of a deep black ....

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

I've brought you something to make those moss-agate eyes of yours shine.

Greatheart 1910

"Looks like we'd lost our job, Sadie," says I. "The silly old moss-agate!" says Sadie.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

His eyes, which have been variously described, were, it seemed to me, of an indescribable depth of the bluish moss-agate, with a capacity of pupil dilation that in certain lights had the effect of a deep black ....

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

His eyes, which have been variously described, were, it seemed to me, of an indescribable depth of the bluish moss-agate, with a capacity of pupil dilation that in certain lights had the effect of a deep black ....

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

If her dress was no longer threadbare, it was still of the neatest black, and if she had taken to wearing every day the moss-agate brooch which had formerly been reserved for Sundays, she was still the very same old sweet-tempered, spontaneous, Miss Joliffe as in time past.

The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

There was blood upon that moon, and all the shores were like veins in moss-agate and the sea like oil.

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

Take a good stiff tooth brush, with a little soapsuds, and clean the crown thoroughly at first, drying it on a clean towel and taking care not to drop it on the floor and thus knock the moss-agate diadem loose.

Remarks Bill Nye 1873

The so-called green grotto has the beauty of moss-agate in its liquid floor; the red grotto shows a warmer chord of colour; and where there is no other charm to notice, endless beauty may be found in the play of sunlight upon roofs of limestone, tinted with yellow, orange, and pale pink, mossed over, hung with fern, and catching tones of blue or green from the still deeps beneath.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

The so-called green grotto has the beauty of moss-agate in its liquid floor; the red grotto shows a warmer chord of colour; and where there is no other charm to notice, endless beauty may be found in the play of sunlight upon roofs of limestone, tinted with yellow, orange, and pale pink, mossed over, hung with fern, and catching tones of blue or green from the still deeps beneath.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866