LAPIDARY substantive – Someone who cuts precious stones.
- Encycl. All the equipment necessary to a lapidary consists almost exclusively of wheels and disks to grind, split and polish the surface of minerals. These wheels have just a few centimeters in diameter and are made of lead, tin, bronze or iron and various soft alloys; some of them, used to polish the softer minerals, are made from willow …Read more »

HELIGOLAND or Helgoland (Island of the Saints), Island in the North Sea, belonging to Britain, 55 km (34 miles) northwest of the mouth of the Elbe, facing Germany, which it seems to be watching, population 1 920. It is about 1.5 km (1 mile) long from north to south and 1 km (0.6 mile) wide, from East to West. constantly eaten into by the sea. Two good ports. The highest part, in the West, is 70 m (230 ft) above sea level. Saint Wilbrord …Read more »

The boarding took place in good order. The raft could take on all the survivors.
They were nearly five hundred the day before.
Now they were only eighty-two.
Among those were the captain, the doctor, Simon Barigoule, the Parisian, Squirrel, the big Flandrin, Lavenette, Griffard and Robert-Robert.
It was time they left the deck of La Rapide. The transfer …Read more »

JEFFERSONIA substantive – Botany. Genus of Berberidaceae, whose typical species is a spring plant, common in the forests of the United States from New York to Wisconsin, and named in honor of Thomas Jefferson. It is popularly …Read more »

And yet isn’t she perfectly happy ? Her room looks like a small chapel. You know I often lack servants, but I manage without them and no one could tell. All is neat and tidy, everything is squeaky clean in the house. You can certainly say that Perrine has the most pleasant interior. Would you believe she doesn’t even seem …Read more »