Proceeds of the show are normally used for donations to education and research in the earth sciences and lapidary arts. |
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This switch of emphasis from lapidary to wheel-face cutting is probably attributable to recent technological improvements. |
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This attractive material is mostly consumed by the lapidary market for jewelry and decorative specimens for dressing windows and display cases. |
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This combination of minerals is one of Colorado's well-known lapidary materials, for it has long been cut and polished and used in jewelry. |
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Elsewhere, he excelled in Chopin's smaller works, especially the mazurkas, to which he brought unusual lapidary refinement. |
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Some triturated powders can be prepared in a lapidary tumbler, using steel balls to do the grinding. |
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In 1736 Calderwood married Elinor Streeter, widow of the jeweller and lapidary William Streeter. |
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In the past, this event would have been greeted by silence, so that his lapidary words could rebound off the walls and resound in our minds. |
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This is not an inspiring way to start a long day at a job requiring patience, concentration and a lapidary expression of optimism. |
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Throughout the text, Graubard's lapidary prose is lucid and provocative, likely to induce a glow of pleasure in the reader. |
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Whole tribes of bones will be creaking into motion, and hearses will be summoned, and lapidary inscriptions will be scratched out and rectified. |
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One of the earliest manufacturers of the lamps was Peter Geley, who was listed in the 1799 Philadelphia directory as a jeweler and lapidary. |
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Scattered everywhere on sills, shelves, tables, and books are lapidary specimens. |
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How quickly these lapidary phrases are crumbling around their feet! |
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Agates were apparently highly valued by the ancient Egyptians for their lapidary use and were mounted into gold with other precious stones such as lapis and emeralds. |
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His care for well-defined blocks of color is almost lapidary, like the intricately wrought components of stained-glass windows or a jeweler's cloisonne. |
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The Algomah mine is best known for lapidary material and copper-bearing microminerals, including plancheite, kinoite, dioptase, azurite, and atacamite. |
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The style is as lapidary as ever, but strangely the mood is lighter than before. |
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Kufic is a more or less square and angular script characterized by its heavy, bold, and lapidary style. |
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And Mr Manza had said if there was to be full realisation of the Zambian potential in gemstones, similar support should be extended to the lapidary and jewelry industries. |
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Ohio flint, which is among the finest flint in North America, was worked extensively by prehistoric Indians and is widely sought for knapping and use in the lapidary trade. |
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However it is still a good play, with a lapidary style and some interesting and original thematic concerns and imagery that are forcibly stressed. |
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It combines his lapidary style with considerable learning and eagerness. |
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While their lives overlapped for only one year, they were both masters of clear, witty insight, and they both wrote in a brilliant lapidary English. |
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Many of the mineral and lapidary dealers listed in Appendix H carry the equipment and accessories needed by collectors. |
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A typical Czech decor is the so-called lace decor, which perfectly represents the Czech lapidary school. |
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I have often thought that your best bet, if you need intelligent, lapidary prose in a hurry, is to ask a poet to do it, even, or rather particularly, if it's about politics. |
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What we have is clearly limned like the work of a master lapidary. |
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Conroy's essay is graceful and lapidary and attractive and assuasive. |
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Finally, the Museum is home to the rectory of lapidary Canonica. |
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One advantage of joining such a group is that it has members who are acquainted with minerals, mineral and rock occurrences, and with the lapidary arts. |
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His cultural isolation since the 1950s, the lack of written sources, his deliberately off-hand attitude towards his photography, the lapidary nature of his explanations: all these are obstacles. |
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Collectors and hobbyists recover a variety of gem materials including jasper, agate, petrified wood, the feldspar minerals, and ornamental rocks from localities in various parts of Canada for use in the lapidary arts. |
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The foundations of the original church are partially open to public in the lapidary, which was achieved by elevating the floor of the present church during the baroque rebuilding. |
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Heartfit provides an opportunity to participate in some activities that people have not likely done anywhere else, like lapidary that's polishing your own favourite semi-precious stones for your own keychain. |
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In the very early days of gemstone fashioning, a polisher or lapidary would cut and polish both diamonds and other gemstones. |
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Blue John is now scarce, and only a few hundred kilograms are mined each year for ornamental and lapidary use. |
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True blue chalcedony is uncommon and highly desirable as a lapidary material. |
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After he retired, he taught lapidary and jewelry wirewrapping in Arizona for eight years. |
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In this case also, what is ignored are certain lapidary theological statements which, in their very abstractness, often fail to capture the imagination. |
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There were lapidary mixed scripts and book semicursive scripts, and there was the early uncial, or rather semiuncial, script of the 3rd century ce, which seems to have developed into the beautiful uncial script. |
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The devout, incredibly expensive perfectionism of the building's lapidary joinery and excruciating lighting may cloy — the God in these details is a neat-freak — but it optimizes looking. |
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But for a while he spoke only in lapidary epigrams. |
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In his spare time, Blauser enjoyed lapidary, searching beaches or the High Desert for stones that he crafted into rings, brooches, necklaces, belt buckles and bolo ties. |
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This treatment gives the entire velvet surface an organic appearance, like a purple, swollen, bruised epidermis onto which Levi's lapidary words are impressed. |
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They soon found that the entire place was composed of the finest rock crystals, or rather it appeared to have been cut out of one gigantic crystal by some cyclopian lapidary. |
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