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Meanings of lapis-lazuli in English

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Usage of lapis-lazuli in English
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Meneptah had forgotten his promise to return the lapis-lazuli signet to Mentu.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
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The hills, crowned with palms, embraced a sea as deeply blue as lapis-lazuli.
Sacrifice
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It is inlaid with turquoise, malachite, and lapis-lazuli, and sparkles with precious stones.
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
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Or opaque gems such as jade, moonstone, lapis-lazuli, obsidian, and turquoise.
Let's Collect Rocks and Shells
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The stars shone out like flashing diamonds set in lapis-lazuli.
The Young Woodsman; Or, Life in the Forests of Canada
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On the marble floor were designs of graceful bouquets in onyx, lapis-lazuli, and agate.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 / Boule de Suif and Other...
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I will make to be harnessed for thee a chariot of lapis-lazuli and gold.
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets f...
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That monk practised the art of manufacturing ultramarine blue by crushing stones of burned lapis-lazuli.
The Red Lily — Volume 02
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When the ribbon was red, I was to wear corals, and with a blue one lapis-lazuli.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton / An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Mem...
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Among the gifts was "a ram's head of real lapis-lazuli, 15 pounds in weight."
Patriarchal Palestine
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And those eyes, those large, dreaming eyes aswim with tears and hued like richest lapis-lazuli, oh!
Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
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Nor was there lack of bars of copper and of precious stones, particularly of lapis-lazuli and malachite.
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 02
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Let its materials be made of nothing less than porphyry, jasper, agate, lapis-lazuli, and the finest marble.
The Junior Classics, Volume 5: Stories that never grow old
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Loulou, hidden beneath roses, showed nothing but his blue head which looked like a piece of lapis-lazuli.
A Simple Soul
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They consisted chiefly of large blocks of "real lapis-lazuli" as well as "lapis-lazuli of Babylon."
Patriarchal Palestine
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The walls were faced with a mosaic of ivory, tortoise-shell, gold, silver, malachite, lapis-lazuli, ebony and amber.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 04
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