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... long study of detective fiction I have never met any sleuths with a gift of loquacity like that of Messrs. Corson and Gibbs, who during the first part of In the Onyx Lobby (HODDER AND STOUGHTON) make futile efforts to trace the murderer of Sir Herbert Binney, proprietor of Binney's Buns. Sir Herbert had gone to New York to persuade his nephew to become the manager of an American branch of a Binney Bun factory, and, on returning ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 • Various

... marbled corridors and regal parlours, down long perspectives of Persian rugs and onyx ...

— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... has been coarsely recrystallized by metamorphism. The marble of commerce includes a small quantity of serpentine as quarried and sold in Massachusetts, California, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Vermont, and also a small amount of so-called onyx marble or travertine obtained from caves and other deposits in Kentucky and other states. The principal uses of marble are for building and monumental stones. Of the twenty-two states producing marble, the leaders are ...

— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith

... of statues and flowers and fountains, Vases of onyx and jasper from Indian emperors sent; Pictures out of the heart of tropical sunlit mountains, Of rocks of porphyry piled at the gates of ...

— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean

Words linked to "Onyx" : sardonyx, calcedony, chalcedony