"Steatite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... accident they discovered something of the kind, while engaged with mixtures of natron or potash, and other ingredients, it is probable that it was only an absorbent, without oil or grease, and on a par with steatite, or the argillaceous earths, with which, no doubt, ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy
... beads with soda: steatite, meerschaum, felspar, albite, petalite, nepheline, anorthite, emerald, ...
— A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe • Anonymous
... attracted by the smoke of our fire, paid us a visit from the shore, and were the only living things seen during our stay. The rock constituting the cliffs along the shore where we were encamped, is a talcous rock, or steatite, with brown spar. ...
— The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself • De Witt C. Peters
... glass, green serpentine, cornaline, black haematite, steatite, and green jasper.[797] They are scratched rather than deeply cut, and cannot be said ever to attain to any considerable artistic beauty. Those which have been here given are among the best; and they certainly fall short, both in design and workmanship, of many Assyrian, ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson |
