In the city, Yoren had loaded up the wagons with salt fish, hard bread, lard, turnips, sards of beans and barley, and wheels of yellow cheese, but every bite of it had been eaten.

We shall have no plate except of gold and an ivory couch inlaid with jasper, or perhaps with sard.

The finer specimens of the Aegean gems are engraved with the wheel and the point in hard stones, such as chalcedony, amethyst, sard, rock-crystal and haematite.

The Hebrew odem was probably a red stone, either carnelian, sard or jasper.

For example, large quantities of somewhat porous chalcedony from Brazil are stained and sold in imitation of natural agate or sard or other stones.