It will perhaps be remembered that, in the vicinity of Colorado Springs and Manitou, the pretty lazuli buntings were quite rare and exceedingly shy, only two or three individuals having been seen.
What is there that prevents the indigo-bird from taking up residence in Colorado, where his pretty western cousin, the lazuli finch, finds himself so much at home?
In the foregoing remarks the lazuli finches have been represented as excessively shy.
Handsome as Master Indigo is, the lazuli finch, with his sextet of hues, is a more showily dressed bird; in fact, a lyric in colors.
The lazuli finch does not venture very high into the mountains, seldom reaching an altitude of more than seven thousand feet.
My friend told me that I would not be able to distinguish the song of the lazuli from those of the summer and mountain warblers.
The most satisfactory lazuli song I heard was on the western side of the range, at the resort called Glenwood.
Another locality for lapis lazuli is in Siberia near the western extremity of Lake Baikal, where it occurs in limestone at its contact with granite.
Fine masses of lapis lazuli occur in the Andes, in the vicinity of Ovalle, Chile.
Lapis lazuli usually occurs in crystalline limestone, and seems to be a product of contact metamorphism.
The jewels of Queen Zer, and other jewels consisting of cut turquoise, lapis lazuli and amethyst, found by the French mission, date from 4777 B.
Magnificent examples of the decorative use of lapislazuli are to be seen in St Petersburg, notably in the columns of St Isaac's cathedral.
The lazurite of lapis lazuli is to be carefully distinguished from lazulite, an aluminium-magnesium phosphate, related to turquoise.
Three varieties of the lapis lazuliare recognized by the miners: nili of indigo-blue colour, asmani sky-blue, and sabzi of green tint.
In Europe lapis lazuli is found as a rarity in the peperino of Latium, near Rome, and in the ejected blocks of Monte Somma, Vesuvius.
Analyses of lapislazuli show considerable variation in composition, and this led long ago to doubt as to its homogeneity.
When the lapis lazuli contains pyrites, the brilliant spots in the deep blue matrix invite comparison with the stars in the firmament.
The beautiful blue colour of lapis lazuli led to its employment, when ground and levigated, as a valuable pigment known as ultramarine (q.
With the ancient Egyptians lapis lazuliwas a favourite stone for amulets and ornaments such as scarabs; it was also used to a limited extent by the Assyrians and Babylonians for cylinder seals.
Lapis lazuli occurs usually in compact masses, with a finely granular structure; and occasionally, but only as a great rarity, it presents the form of the rhombic dodecahedron.
Thereafter he sat looking into the growing dusk, watching the pale lamps of the constellations deepen to green gilt against the lapis-lazuli of the sky, and listening to the insect noises dulling into the woven chorus of evening.
The name of the other early king of Kish, Lugal-tarsi, is known to us from a short inscription upon a small tablet of lapis-lazuli preserved in the British Museum.
Moreover, lapis-lazuli is already found in the second culture of the North Kurgan.
Lapis lazuli and armenus, because they purge, shall be mentioned in their place.
Lapis armenus and lazuliare much magnified by [4214]Alexander lib.
He was of a clear red complexion with lapis-lazuli blue eyes, that peculiar blue which is the colour of the sea on a bright, stormy day.
The most ancient seals are generally made of white marble, or shell, and sometimes also of lapis lazuli and serpentine.
The large eye-holes must have at one time been inlaid, probably with lapis lazuli in the case of a woman as here.
After this Harris and Bell went off and brought in several Lazuli Finches, and a black Prairie Lark Finch of the species brought from the Columbia by Townsend and Nuttall.
Harris and Bell had gone shooting and returned with several birds, among which was a female Red-patched Woodpecker,[27] and a Lazuli Finch.
The song of the Lazuli Finch so much resembles that of the Indigo Bird that it would be difficult to distinguish them by the note alone.
Bell and Harris hunted a good while, but procured only a Lazuli Finch and a few other birds.
The Lazuli Finches and Arctic Bluebirds sang in our view; but though we beat all the clumps of low bushes where the Rabbits must go in, whether during night or day, we did not start one.
We saw Lazuli Finches and several other sorts of small birds.
Above my head loomed a great dome, lighted by stained glass windows in which the blue of lapis-lazuli predominated.
The real lapis lazuli is found in the mountains of that part of Tartary called Bucharia, which extends eastwards from the Caspian sea, and particularly at Kalab and Budukschu.
That lapis lazuli was used formerly for inlaid works I am well convinced, though at present I can produce no proofs.
The name lapis lazuli no one indeed can expect to find among them; for it is certain that we received it from the Arabians; and the word ultramarinum is altogether barbarous Latin.
In the last place it agrees with what Dionysius says, that the sapphire or lapis lazuli was produced in veins among other kinds of stone[1451].
Besides the before-mentioned proofs of the real lapis lazuli being found in Tartary, the same thing is confirmed by Tavernier in his Travels.
The lapis lazuli is interspersed with small points, which were formerly considered as gold, but which are only particles of pyrites or marcasite.
The blue colour of lapis lazuli has always been supposed to be owing to copper; but according to the latest discoveries it originates from iron[1449].
The species extends westerly, in riparian situations, in reduced numbers, ultimately meeting and hybridizing with the Lazuli Bunting.
Specimens referrable to the Indigo Bunting have been taken as far west as Finney County, but most specimens from that far west show evidence of interbreeding with Lazuli Buntings.
The eagerness of the Bishop for the lump of the lapis-lazuli has made him steal even from his own church.
Footnote 1: Lapis lazuli is not found in Ceylon, and must have been brought by the caravans from Budakshan.
O ye gods here present, as I shall never forget the lapis-lazuli jewels of my neck 166.
I will make to be harnessed for thee a chariot of lapis-lazuli and gold.
Possessed of the effulgence of lapis lazuli and the sun, and made of silver and gold, their complexion resembles the colour of the morning sun.
Some of them are endued with the effulgence of lapis lazuli and some are possessed of the resplendence of the sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lazuli" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
