Examples from literature

• Among these were drawings of two small fragments of agate, inscribed with characters. 
• Elise wrote home asking if agates were expensive, and if she might have one. 
• The agates now in question are those of the coated kind, so frequent in this country, called pebbles. 
• These little radiating stars are occasionally intersected, and portions are quite cut off by the fine, ribbon-like zones of colour in the agate. 
• To make tea always scald the teapot, which should be agate, earthenware or china, never metal.