We had with us an old Dutch lapidary, and one of the cabins was fitted as a workshop, where he altered the appearance of the stones, and prepared them ready for sale, while the gold was melted in a crucible and put ashore to be sent to agents in Hamburg.

"Those who know Sirius and Betel do not at once perceive that one shines with a brilliant white light and the other burns with a glowing red, as different in their brilliancy as the precious stones on a lapidary's table, perhaps for the same reason.

I had picked out one of the least valuable engraved stones, and had taken it to a lapidary, who readily bought it at his own valuation, and paid me with great promptness; but after he had secured it he asked me so many questions about it, particularly how I had come into possession of it, that I was very sure that he had made a wonderful bargain, and was also convinced that it would not do for me to take any more of my gems to him.

He is a lapidary polishing pebbles,a pretty art, but not vested with the glories of sculpture, nor the mathematical magnitude of architecture.

[art of cutting and polishing gemstones] lapidary.

[person who polishes gemstones] lapidary, lapidarian.

[person who cuts gemstones] lapidary, lapidarian.

I may say that it is at my days most especially he throws off these specimens of a verbal art which might fairly be called THE PEACOCK Lapidary.

While the façade of S. Lorenzo is still neglected and the cornice of Brunelleschi's dome is still unfinished, this lapidary's show-room is being completed at a cost of millions of lire.

The delight of Runjeet was extreme, but of short duration,the lapidary to whom he gave orders to mount his new acquisition pronouncing it to be merely a bit of crystal.

And of that a very large part must go to the lapidary to pay for the stone and for his work in cutting it to an even round disk.

LAPIDARY INSCRIPTIONS, ii. 407. LAPLAND, i. 425; ii. 168, n, 1. LAPLANDERS, v. 328.

Poems: Portrait for a lapidary, Academic procession, Polynesian in khaki, All earth's divided.

The living, or spitting, image (left) and a dead ringer; The lapidary In a clump of merry-go-round; The hoodwink on a spray of ragamuffin; An upstart rising from a clump of Johnny-come-lately; The <pb id='230.png' /> small rodent (right) is a spouse; A trochee (left) encountering a spondee; Three fresh-water creatures.

Poems: Portrait for a lapidary, Academic procession, Polynesian in khaki, All earth's divided.

The living, or spitting, image (left) and a dead ringer; The lapidary In a clump of merry-go-round; The hoodwink on a spray of ragamuffin; An upstart rising from a clump of Johnny-come-lately; The <pb id='230.png' /> small rodent (right) is a spouse; A trochee (left) encountering a spondee; Three fresh-water creatures.

The Art of the lapidary.

But he rose, just as the book told him to do, in all his beauty, and enunciated in the crystal tones he had learned during the last few weeks at Madam Winterbottom's school of acting and elocutionin syllables chiseled from the stone of eloquence by the lapidary of culture: "If Your Honor please, I move the cause of the People of the state of New York against Theophilus Higgleby, indicted for bigamy.

"Ask him in," he said, for he recalled having given his address to a lapidary for the delivery of a purchase.

The tortoise, just returned by the lapidary, shone brilliantly, softening the tones of the rug and casting on it a gorgeous reflection which resembled the irradiations from the scales of a barbaric Visigoth shield.

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.

The lapidary made a note of the places where the stones were to be inlaid.

People that had lighted on a new thought, or a thought that they fancied new, came to Emerson, as the finder of a glittering gem hastens to a lapidary to ascertain its quality and value.

She brought Mrs. Poynsett a beautiful bouquet, for the elderly spinsters, she said, sat on the stairs and kept up a constant supply; and she had also some exquisite Genoese wire ornaments from Cecil's counter, and a set of studs from a tray of polished pebbles sent up from Vivian's favourite lapidary at Rockpier.

I heard that they had a collection of such things from the lapidary at Rockpier.