Lexicographical Neighbors of Onychites
Literary usage of Onychites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1889)
"Tate and Blake state in ' The Yorkshire Lias ' * that they met with these pointed
organisms in the 'Jamesoni beds' at Peak, agreeing with the onychites ..."
2. The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building by William Richard Lethaby, Harold Swainson (1894)
"onychites.—" The precious onyx" mentioned by the poet is the ... or onychites of
the ancients. It is the oriental alabaster (aragonite) used in the ..."
3. The Natural History of Gems Or Decorative Stones by Charles William King (1867)
"Besides this, there are other sorts, similarly called onychites, resembling yellow
... These are called onychites (nail-stones) in natural history, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"... of the ancients, or onychites, was not a marble proper, but a hard carbonate
of lime, identical in composition with stalagmite, the modern alabaster. ..."
5. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1898)
"... and onychites because of its beautiful banded structure. In the arts it is
often now culled Oriental alabaster or onyx marble. Very beautiful marble of ..."
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