A world famous lapidary was hired to cut the large and very expensive diamond. From LearnThat.org.
The ring is of no lapidary value. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a lapidary style; lapidary verse. From Dictionary.com.
You develop a little internal monlogue characterizing whatever you see or do in lapidary detail. From Wordnik.com. [So… Much… Flensing!] Reference
We call it lapidary prose. From Wordnik.com. [every heart to love will come, but like a refugee] Reference
A sentence containing the word "lapidary" cannot itself be lapidary. From Wordnik.com. ["I Am Lapidary But Not Eristic When I Use Big Words."] Reference
This kind of lapidary showing-off lends itself to ridicule. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.". From Wordnik.com. [A Melancholy] Reference
I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words. From Wordnik.com. [Buckley Athwart History] Reference
The lapidary was subtle; his work sustains closer analysis. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
We're the boys that can tell you who's who in the lapidary world. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
In rendering colloquial phrases into the lapidary style of ancient. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference
What radiant glory the lapidary can see in the rough, unpolished gem!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The precious stone lapidary cuts every species of stone except diamond. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
In small shops, however, the same lapidary performs all the parts of the work. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
I inscribed, with lapidary care, my own box, checked it, and wrote "Not sure.". From Wordnik.com. [Ellis Weiner: 18 Questions *From* Congressional Republicans, Part II: The Back Nine] Reference
“I never overcharge, and I never depart from my figures,” the lapidary answered. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
Wain Cutter: (H.H.) skilled lapidary, or gem cutter, working out of the town of Hope. From Wordnik.com. [Through Wolfs Eyes] Reference
The Italians certainly succeeded in performing feats of lapidary art at a later period. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Also chiseled into the fifth-century-B.C. wall was a lapidary punishment for violators. From Wordnik.com. [An Olympic Cocktail] Reference
The modern lapidary must have a perfect knowledge of optics and be a skilful stone-cutter. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The hulk, once gaudy with paint and gilding, has come under the skill of the lapidary and sea-artist. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
The troubles of the lapidary in getting the keen polish that is so much admired on fine gems are many. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
Arkady suspected that when Roman was too drunk to stand, he could still stack wood with lapidary care. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
Such lapidary judgments, which are found in every Kempton column, made him my kind of man of the left. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best] Reference
Many, no doubt, will afford serviceable gem material, but their resources have not yet been tested by the lapidary. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891] Reference
These details have been gone into to give an idea of the methods of the lapidary and of the many variations in method. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
By so doing he provides us with a lapidary history of France by way of the works that have helped to shape its culture. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Liaisons] Reference
A friend here has about sixty pounds of agates, for which he was offered by a lapidary in New York five dollars a pound. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference
In vain I mumbled something touching my love of mineralogy, and that a lapidary had offered I knew not what for my collection. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
Rather than offering some lapidary cultural forensics, though, Dowd is as aggressive and militarily incompetent as North Korea. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Maureen Dowd, Please Stop Now. Twitter is Not Just For the Banal Retentive] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
Think of the exquisitely lapidary poems of Marianne Moore, say, or the three-minute masterpieces of jazz and American popular song. From Wordnik.com. [Creative Elephantiasis] Reference
He prepared also two onyx stones, fast set and closed in gold, and graven, by the art of a lapidary, with the names of the children of. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Strength and weakness: at the end, Shakespeare said what he had to say in the lapidary words spoken by Prospero as The Tempest finishes. From Wordnik.com. [A Sermon for Shakespeare Sunday] Reference
Frequently the lapidary bevels the edge so as to bring the line of junction between real and false material at the sharp edge of the bevel. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference
"They unfold with a kind of infallibility of imagination of almost lapidary perfection, which bespeaks the absolutely glacial pace at which he composes," Mr. Levin says. From Wordnik.com. [The Classical Improviser] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
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