By the way, tell me candidly how you relish This, which they call The lapidary style?
At this day, it is understood that the lapidary is past work at forty, from the contraction of the sinews of the wrist, consequent on the nature of his labor.
It may be asked how there comes to be anylapidary department here?
The intrusion of a pronounced scent was sufficient to induce a serious nervous disturbance, and he could no more endure disproportionate and sharp distinctions of color than a lapidary could tolerate a serious unevenness of facets.
The lapidary was subtle; his work sustains closer analysis.
Castiglione has left a few poems, among which the best is in the archaic lapidary style, on the statue of Cleopatra in the Vatican.
The French prose lapidary has been chosen rather than that in verse form, because it has fewer tags and circumlocutions, and can be more faithfully rendered into English.
There is a French bestiary written in England by Philippe de Thaün, about 1120, which contains a portion of a lapidary also.
There was so much interest in this lapidary that it was frequently translated into French, both in verse form and in prose, and was popular in England as well as in France.
The lapidary made a note of the places where the stones were to be inlaid.
Taking it to a jeweler, he sketched a border to enclose this bouquet in an oval frame, and informed the amazed lapidary that every petal and every leaf was to be designed with jewels and mounted on the scales of the tortoise.
Ask him in," he said, for he recalled having given his address to a lapidary for the delivery of a purchase.
The =Lapidary Museum=, which was formerly in the crypt of the archi-episcopal chapel (see p.
The lapidary forms of the characters are more linear and less ornate than those upon the tablets.
Blank verse makes some approach to that which is called the "lapidary style;" has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers, and therefore tires by long continuance.
I was offered ten shillings the other day by a professional lapidary for a stone I found, just as it was picked up.
The style of St. John has often been called "senile;" it certainly has the oracular and sententious quietude of old age in its almost lapidary repose.
The lapidary was singularly excellent in his art, the horse genealogist in his, and the last has proved his upon my mistress.
I am," said one, "O sovereign, a lapidary of wonderful skill.
The Angel, taught the art of the lapidary to mankind, 30.
The art of the lapidary is asserted in the Book of Enoch, to have been taught to mankind by the angel Azazel,[23] chief of the angels who took to themselves wives from among the daughters of men.
Louise Morel, after a rigid examination and autopsy of her child, had been set at liberty; the beautiful features of the daughter of the lapidary expressed a kind of sad and melancholy resignation.
The lapidary placed his hands on his chest, looking at himself (if we may so express it) from head to foot, as if to convince himself of his identity.
The modern lapidary must have a perfect knowledge of optics and be a skilful stone-cutter.
The lapidary must study the individual character of each stone and determine whether to cleave or grind off the superfluous matter so as to correct flaws and imperfections.
Fabretti was the first who reduced lapidary remains into classes, and arranged them so as to illustrate each other; a method, says one of his most distinguished successors, which has laid the foundations of the science.
Whole rows of lapidaryshops in the English quarter of the city, especially in the Via Babuino and the Via Sistina, are maintained by this curious traffic.
We see, then, that the Egyptians had no lack of excellent building materials of a lapidary kind.
Its constitution does not lend itself to the ample and rounded forms of lapidary sculpture.
As the poor lapidary uttered these words, he passed his hand over his aching brow with a desponding air, and said to one of the children: "Felix, give your mother something to drink.
The lapidary hastily followed the child back to his chamber.
Taking advantage of the instant when no one was observing him, the lapidary profited by it to steal from the room.
The lapidary impatiently interrupted his wife by saying: "Because I have noticed for the last three months that, whenever Louise comes to see us, she seems embarrassed, and even confused.
So saying, the heart-broken lapidary threw himself on his stool, and covered his face with his hands.
The lapidary possessed only a thin mattress and a portion of a blanket appropriated to the old grandmother, who, in her stupid and ferocious selfishness, would not allow any person to share them with her.
So they said he was a lapidary of sham stones; if they were mock he would not be afraid of being robbed; this is a good thing to know.
But the lapidary found it no easy matter to get rid of the idiot, who, beginning to feel irritated at the constant opposition she met with, gave utterance to her displeasure in a sort of hideous growl.
Rather a ragged recruit to march with," added he, beckoning to the lapidary to follow him.
Awaking with a sudden start, the lapidary found himself directly opposite to the poor idiot.
Rigolette, endeavouring to draw the wife of the lapidary from the state of gloomy abstraction into which she had fallen, "do you hear that?
Here the poor lapidary wiped away the tears which filled his eyes at the recollection of his lost darling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lapidary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
