I think the Cornelian gens can show quite as many death-masks in its atria, and your mock heroics will only stamp you as a very bad tragedian.
A member of the Council had been inspired one warm June evening after three bottles of ginger-beer to name the first of these red rows of houses Cornelian Crescent.
I did buy here a string of red cornelian beads, not for their value but as good specimens.
The citizens who, not being of your order, cannot, thanks to the Cornelian laws, challenge more than three judges.
He wished to abrogate the Cornelian laws, restore to the tribunes their power, to the proscribed their rights, to the allies their lands.
And now Nellie was the affianced bride of William Raymond, who had replaced the littlecornelian with the engagement ring.
We have his notes on these two Cornelian orations and some others, especially on that of Pro Milone.
The cornelian heart was restored, and Byron was informed that he had only intrusted it, but not given it to Miss Pigott.
Pantaleone spoke first, playing with hiscornelian seal.
Among these remains were some bone and cornelian bead-bangles (for example see Pl.
A small piece of wood with beautiful cornelian inlay upon it from a coffin (?
There are also tiny cornelian and glaze beads among them.
Round the neck a gold and obsidian necklace and a ‘Shen’ brooch of gold and cornelian (Pl.
Upon it were bone and cornelian bead-bangles (see Pl.
Among the remains were bone and cornelian beads, and an ivory bracelet (Pl.
One of the adult mummies had round its neck a cornelian bead necklace (Pl.
Round her neck was a cornelian necklace still attached by its strings, and on her breast was a bronze mirror reflector; from the manner this reflector was wrapped in linen it must have been buried with the deceased without a handle.
Hair plaited; on wrists, bangles of double strings of bone and cornelian beads; on third finger of left hand a scarab (Pl.
In the wrappings covering the hair were some bone and cornelian beads like those found in coffin No.
Cornelian was proof against these shafts; leaning back gracefully in his chair he launched forth into that detailed description of his last night's attire which the Dawn had so unaccountably failed to supply.
Cornelian Valpy was left, still clothed in a look of ineffable complacency, still engaged, in all probability, in reclothing himself in the finery of the previous evening.
Cornelian Valpy was a fair young man, with perpetual surprise impinged on his countenance, and a chin that seemed to have retired from competition with the rest of his features.
Publius Scipio Nasica then appealed to the tribunes, and made a speech fraught with just encomiums, not only on the Cornelian family in general, but on his own branch of it in particular.
For, as out of a numerous progeny, the Cornelian and Fabian families have two of them who were given in adoption.
Such proceedings will reflect more disgrace on the city of Rome, than they will on the Cornelian family.
Cornelian is a red or brown variety of silica coloured with ferric oxide, whilst opal is amorphous silica combined with varying quantities of water.
Footnote 1: The cornelian was a present from his friend Edleston, a Cambridge chorister, afterwards a clerk in a mercantile house in London.
A Medley To the Sighing Strephon The Cornelian To M---- Lines Addressed to a Young Lady.
Thus from the ill-assorted trio was formed a comfortable partie carrée, for Poussette seemed careless as to which lady he attended and he still bore the cornelian ring upon his finger.
Of those Cornel trees are two sorts, male and female, the fruit of the male Cornel, or Cornelian Cherry is here to be used.
But what have we to do with the opinion of a Russian teacher, with an expressive voice and a cornelian on his finger?
Russian teacher would exclaim at this point in an expressive voice, while he raises a fat forefinger, adorned with a cornelian ring.
This cornelian must be something very precious," thought he, "or my wife would not wear it on her person with so much care.
Curious as to what this might be, he opened the pouch and found a cornelian engraved with various figures and strange characters.
She hath a nose like the point of the burnished sword and cheeks like purple wine or blood-red anemones: her lips are like coral and cornelian and the water of her mouth is sweeter than old wine, its taste would allay the torments of Hell.
You will, perhaps, recollect that I alluded to my having met abroad the heroine of the cornelian pate anecdote.
Compare a cornelian fragment, apparently cut from the back of a scarabaeoid, now in the British Museum.
Special mention must be made of a very numerous group of cornelian scarabs, roughly engraved for the most part with cup-shaped sinkings (whence they are known as gems a globolo tondo) roughly joined together by furrows.
This development of the hieroglyphic system was accompanied by an increasing power of working in hard material, and cornelian and chalcedony superseded soft steatite (Journ.
A gem, apparently by the same Dexamenus, is a cornelian formerly belonging to Admiral Soteriades in Athens, and subsequently in the collection of Dr Arthur Evans.
Where is the whitecornelian tray with twisted threads gone to?
The other day, too, she was quite taken with this cornelian tray so let her keep it for her use.
How many of those crystal jars and cornelian bowls were smashed the other time, I don't remember, and yet you were not seen to fly into a tantrum; and now, for a fan do you distress yourself so?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornelian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
