He sat beside a lovely young Italian woman, who took a rosary of lapis lazuli from a velvet case and prayed fervently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jenny: A Novel] Reference

The leaves that floated on the water were of the colour of lapis lazuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

The hills, crowned with palms, embraced a sea as deeply blue as lapis-lazuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

Meneptah had forgotten his promise to return the lapis-lazuli signet to Mentu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

All the quarters became clear and the firmament looked blue as the lapis lazuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

In some respects it resembled the hue of the blue lapis lazuli and in some that of sapphire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

That was a gleam of lapis lazuli that winked at him from the crumbling mortar under his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortieth Door] Reference

Many talismans were offered to us, set very neatly in blood-stone, carnelian, and lapis lazuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

In some respects that complexion resembled the hue of gold and in some that of the lapis lazuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

At Troy, giant stone walls protected the owners of ornate carnelian, gold and lapis lazuli jewelry.    From Wordnik.com.  [When The Comet Flew Through Ancient Evenings] Reference

All those mansions are decked with lapis lazuli and corals, and made effulgent with the lustre of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

From various hidden places in the dense foliage come the notes of the song sparrow and the lazuli bunting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

Queen Elizabeth sat in that chair near the antique mantelpiece of lapis-lazuli; this chair is never moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference

When the English geologist bought the kaleidoscopic blue stone in Morocco, she was told it was lapis lazuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock Star] Reference

(Krishna) sent unto them (as presents) various gold ornaments set with pearls and black gems (lapis lazuli).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

"His skin was overlaid with gold, and his eyebrows were of real lapis lazuli, and he was exceeding perfect.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference

"That bit of lapis lazuli at the top, with a curious design upon it, is by way of being an amulet, I suppose?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Austin and His Friends] Reference

Some of them are endued with the effulgence of lapis lazuli and some are possessed of the resplendence of the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

Lapis lazuli, 5-1/2 in hardness, has a beautiful blue color, frequently flecked with white or with bits of fool's gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

Lapis lazuli, or lazulite, is usually disseminated in a rock, which contains, among other substances, a fine white lazulite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

You pass hundreds of shops of malachite and lapis-lazuli, and a variety of gold and silver work and precious stones from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

Above us bends a vault of lapis-lazuli, with globes of light hanging in it, and around us is a heavenly, soft and balmy air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference

It is evident, however, from Pliny's description, that the "sapphirus" of the ancients was the lapis lazuli of the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

In spite of the favorite's vigorous protests Mentu overturned the tiny heap of earth and discovered therein the lapis-lazuli signet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

I uncovered my eyes and I saw that a serpent drew near; his body was as if overlaid with gold, and his colour as that of true lazuli. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

There was first of all a diamond necklace, just what she had been wishing for; then there were ear-rings and bracelets of lapis lazuli of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

They consist chiefly of varieties of marble and alabaster, agates of different shades, chalcedony, jasper, lapis lazuli, and red porphyry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

In a dusty corner of the Andar Shahr market in Peshawar, Haji Ehsanullah, 60, peddles ruby, amber and lapis-lazuli rings in his small shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasures In The Tombs] Reference

Pilasters, incrusted with marble, and enamelled with lapis-lazuli, broke the monotony of the walls and supported the ceiling with their capitals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

It has been conjectured that ultramarine (lapis lazuli) was known to the ancients under the name of Armenium, from Armenia, whence it was procured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

These decorations of the walls and cupolas are richly gilded, and the interstices paneled with lapis lazuli and other brilliant and enduring colors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

He also assembled minerals and precious stones -- malachite, lapis lazuli, gold, silver and copper -- to pigment the ink and light the illustrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Book Of Kells] Reference

It could not, however, stand the effects of the atmosphere like the Tartarian lazur or lapis lazuli, in the course of time becoming of a dark and dismal colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference