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Examples
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On the bandstand stood a lapis-lazuli blue evening gown with a fresh gardenia in her hair.
What Would Philip Marlowe Do Joshua Michael Stewart 2011
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The finely worked silver bowls and lapis-lazuli stamp seals and beads on view show artistic influences that extend from Afghanistan to Crete.
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Musa saw this, he stood still, glorifying Allah the Most High and hallowing Him and contemplating the beauty of the palace and the massiveness of its masonry and fair perfection of its ordinance, for it was builded after the goodliest and stablest fashion and the most part of its adornment was of green139 lapis-lazuli, and on the inner door, which stood open, were written in characters of gold and ultramarine, these couplets,
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It had windows on all sides commanding an ocean-view; its floor was paved with parti-coloured marbles and its ceiling was painted in the richest pigments and figured with gold and lapis-lazuli.
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Warrens of mud-brick houses cluster around the town's single landmark: a crumbling lapis-lazuli mosque purported to be the burial place of Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.
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In a dusty corner of the Andar Shahr market in Peshawar, Haji Ehsanullah, 60, peddles ruby, amber and lapis-lazuli rings in his small shop.
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She walked on lapis-lazuli tiles past cool alabaster fountains and shaded terraces and mosaic corridors, past bodyguards in ceremonial dress, and on into the emir's audience room, where the Lion of Matar awaited.
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She walked on lapis-lazuli tiles past cool alabaster fountains and shaded terraces and mosaic corridors, past bodyguards in ceremonial dress, and on into the emir's audience room, where the Lion of Matar awaited.
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At the further side of the great room there rose a dais with broad lapis-lazuli steps leading up to it, and on that dais there stood a massive chair with ornate arms and a high back which once The Conquering Sword of Conan doubtless supported a cloth-of-gold canopy.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The ceiling was of lapis-lazuli and the floor of silver-inlaid marble tiles.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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