lapis

• “With Karen's piece, which started off life as a kind of rose colour, I stamped it with cold batik wax resist and overdyed it in lapis - it's a little darker than I intended - not that I think it doesn't look nice - indeed, I'm very happy with it - but as two more people have to work on it after me, I was hoping it would be a little lighter.”

  A day to dye for

• “Near a temple of Mars, outside the walls of Rome, there was kept a certain stone known as the lapis manalis.”

  The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

• “The lapis was his mark and she wore it as a reminder to herself that she belonged to him.”

  Tutoring Lady Jane

• “Other mountains also in this province yield stones called lapis lazuli, whereof the best azure is made.”

  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

• “And the king of the Singhalas gave those best of sea-born gems called the lapis lazuli, and heaps of pearls also, and hundreds of coverlets for elephants.”

  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva

• “Possessed of sharp foreteeth and having eyes that resembled the stones called lapis lazuli, the cat called Lomasa, gentle eyeing the mouse, answered as follows: I am delighted with thee, O amiable one!”

  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12

• “One very elegant room, called the lapis lazuli, has strips of this stone inlaid in the walls, and the floor of this apartment is of ebony, inlaid with large flowers of mother of pearl, forming one of the most splendid contrasts possible.”

  A Journey in Russia in 1858

• “Now these things differ sometimes: for "lapis" (a stone) takes its name from hurting the foot”

  Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province

• “Mr. M’Arthur informed her that, according to Pennant, it was called the lapis ollaris, or pot stone, because used by the ancients for utensils, and was of the same kind as that with which the King of Denmark’s palace was built, at Copenhagen.”

  The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale

• “Till we have done this we neither of us know the rules, so to speak, of the game that the other is playing, and cannot, therefore, play together; but the convention being once known and assented to, it does not matter whether we raise the idea of a stone by the word "lapis," or by "lithos,”

  Essays on Life, Art and Science

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