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  • His solution: set the tiles back from the shower and neighboring walls, install mirrors and paint the gaps to match the marble's veins, making the spacing appear intentional.

    The Architect Will See You Now 2008

  • Hence, "Shes lost her marble's" has become the preferred use of this irritating snippet of punctuation in current American writing.

    Its Academic, Or Is It? 2008

  • The future that children sought beneath the marble's surface has for a moment almost become explicit in the comic magazine.

    How Serious Are the Comics? 1969

  • The marble's bluish gray is relieved by sparkling crystallizations, and its unwrought blocks are handled with an ornamental effect in the piers, lintels, and arches, and well set off by

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various

  • The future that children sought beneath the marble's surface has for a moment almost become explicit in the comic magazine.

    How Serious Are the Comics? 1942

  • I can form no idea either of the marble's potentiality or of the sculptor's skill unless I first know what is meant by an actual statue.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Este mármol sepulcral This sepulchral marble's essence adormece mi vigor, seems to drain away my strength

    Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

  • Well he doesn't have anything else to do could captain the Australian marble's team as well This is a nothing game with good people wasting their time playing it.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The only clues one got to the marble's progress were what one's imperfect memory of the multilevel layout provided, and when the marble showed up in a random window.

    Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011

  • The bubbling liquid increased the marble's porosity, and transformed the slab into a diaphanous surface.

    artforum.com 2010

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