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The mist had become a great white luminous cloud--not dense and alabastrine, like the clouds of thunder; but filmy, tender, comparable to the atmosphere of Dante's moon.— New Italian sketches
The box I set in a casket, and enclosing this in seven other caskets and seven chests, laid the whole in a alabastrine coffer, [FN#424] which I buried within the marge of yon earth-circling sea; for that these parts are far from the world of men and none of them can win hither.— Arabian nights. English
The mist had become a great white luminous cloud -- not dense and alabastrine, like the clouds of thunder; but filmy, tender, comparable to the atmosphere of Dante's moon.— New Italian sketches
Then, too, the crowds of admiring spectators, the angel host of captivating beauties with their starry orbs of light, and luxuriant tresses, curling in playful elegance around a face beaming with divinity, or falling in admired negligence over bosoms of alabastrine whiteness and unspotted purity within!— The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
A sinner so signally lov'd, -- and hearing my Mother, her eyes brimming with tears and her alabastrine fingers tightly locked together, murmur in unconscious repetition:— Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
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