gem-cutter's

Within it was a tiny image, so well-wrought as to be the masterpiece of some gem-cutter's art - the image of a gryphon, the beast that was my own House symbol.

The Crystal Gryphon Norton, Andre 1972

Babylonian art, however, had already attained a high degree of excellence; two seal cylinders of the time of Sargon are among the most beautiful specimens of the gem-cutter's art ever discovered.

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"And the gem-cutter's daughter?" asked Caracalla, in a trembling voice.

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"From the gem-cutter's fair daughter," replied Macrinus, with a contemptuous shrug.

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Thus Andreas had become the great ally of the gem-cutter's children, and, as they could learn nothing from him that was not good and worth knowing, Olympias had gladly allowed them to remain in his society, and herself found a teacher and friend in the worthy steward.

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But the gem-cutter's son does not look like a simpleton; and he is a skeptic into the bargain, and believes in nothing.

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But when the freedman had again seen the gem-cutter's brutality and the girl's filial patience, an inward voice had called to him that this gentle, gifted creature was one of those elect from among whom the Lord chose the martyrs for the faith; and that it was his part to lead her into the fold of the Redeemer.

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She had at last made up her mind to regard the gem-cutter's daughter as her niece, so, determined to treat her as a child of her own, she called Melissa by name.

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"Olympias!" cried the bird loudly and articulately, and the clouds that shadowed the gem-cutter's brow lifted a little, as with an affectionate smile he went on:

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But the haughty Julia would scarcely be inclined to accept the gem-cutter's child for a daughter; indeed, she did not wish that he should ever marry again.

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