The grey-headed, spectacled lapidary sat at a bench within, sedulously polishing a streaked pebble by the light of a small lamp.

He doubted no more when the lapidary laid his ring in the scales against another of the same size and make, and pointed to the inequality of the balance.

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.

Parr, regardless of Johnson's rule that 'in lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath' (ante, ii. 407), replied, that if he mentioned his conversation he should have to mention also his roughness in contradiction, &c.

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 inscribes on stone] lapidary, lapidarian.

[of inscriptions on stone] lapidary.

[person who cuts gemstones] lapidary, lapidarian.

What a simple lapidary inscription!

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.

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.

"But then," said Larry"Follow me!" cried the Saint, in a hollow voice, and casting upon him his stony eye, drew poor Larry after him, as the bridal guest was drawn by the lapidary glance of the Ancient Mariner; or, as Larry himself afterwards expressed it, "as a jaw tooth is wrinched out of an ould woman with a pair of pinchers."

In rendering colloquial phrases into the lapidary style of ancient Rome, I confess it is often hard to improve on the brevity of the vernacular, though the admonition "to keep your end up" can be condensed from four words to two in "sursum cauda."

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 and a dead ringer; The lapidary in a clump of merry-go-round; The hoodwink on a spray of ragamuffin.

The Art of the lapidary.

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

The living, or spitting, image and a dead ringer; The lapidary in a clump of merry-go-round; The hoodwink on a spray of ragamuffin.

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.

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.