Lapis-lazuli Sentence Examples

Lapis-lazuli and mercury are among the minor mineral products of the country.

Lovely blue lapis lazuli is the alternate birthstone for September.

Ancient people believed that wearing lapis lazuli could draw several qualities to a person, including health and bravery.

It was even used Veins of lapis lazuli have been found around the world, however the primary sources are Afghanistan and Chile.

The most prized type of lapis lazuli is deep blue in color.

Gold and lapis lazuli are found in other parts of the island.

He fastened a lapis-lazuli beard to the high plain, and made it wear a lapis-lazuli headdress.

However, we specialize in jewelry from Chile made using lapis lazuli and malachite.

Let them spread it for me with herbs like translucent lapis lazuli.

The inlays in glass may have been intended to imitate ' richer ' materials in this case blue lapis lazuli and red jasper.

A handmade necklace featuring coral beads, lapis lazuli beads and sterling silver beads and fittings.

The primary birthstone for September is sapphire, with an alternate of lapis lazuli.

As early at least as the ith century the art of extracting a blue pigment from lapis lazuli was practised, and from the beginning of the 16th century this pigment began to be imported into Europe from "over the sea," as azurrum ultramarinum.

In any large collection of fragments it would be easy to find eight or ten varieties of opaque blue, ranging from lapis lazuli to turquoise or to lavender and six or seven of opaque green.

Acting upon that theory, the experts of TokyO and Nagoya have produced many very beautiful specimens of monochrome enamelyellow (canary or straw), rose du Barry, liquid-dawn, red, aubergine purple, green (grass or leaf), dove-grey and lapis lazuli bl,ue.

Aluminium silicates are widely diffused in the mineral kingdom, being present in the commonest rock-forming minerals (felspars, &c.), and in the gem-stones, topaz, beryl, garnet, &c. It also constitutes with sodium silicate the mineral lapis-lazuli and the pigment ultramarine.

The inner face .of the arches, with the spandrils and the pilasters which support them, are covered with flowers and foliage of delicate design and dainty execution, crusted in green serpentine, blue lapis lazuli and red and purple porphyry.