alectorian

Example Sentences

• "Stones of baser sort, and yet of singular vertue, are the Chalydonie, or Swallowstone, found in the mawes of young swallowes—against madnesse: and the Alectorian, or Cockes stone, of a waterie color, found in the maw of a cocke, or capon, after hee bee nine years olde—above all commended for giving strength and courage! and wherewith (as it is reported) the famous Milo-Critonien always stood invincible."
• "Who would not carry about him the alectorian stone, which, held in the mouth, ensures the mastery of the event, appeases thirst, and quells the ardours of the heart?"
• "Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant."
• "My patients could obtain from my shops, at their choice, aphrodisiac spectacles or ones that cure love; spectacles made of alectorian stone that cancel the harmful effect of poisons, others made of chrysoprase that have the gift of strengthening weakened wills; spectacles that procure a grandiose, thrilling idea of the world, or ones that reduce it to the dimensions of a reading room . . . ones that give a blue view of life or a rose-tinted view; spectacles that induce dreams or suppress them ... in a word, the most fantastic assortment of spectacles imaginable."
• "Howe has left R. thrausta in the genus Alectoria, where it was placed by Acharius; the filamentous cortex is Alectorian in character, and fruits are unknown."
• "The mountain tundras in western Verkhoyansk, are frequently fragmented; the alectorian tundras are usually continuous."