marbre

• “Artist Stanford Staples was commissioned to paint the fresco upon the walls as well as hes combined an imaginative ruin with tones of blue as well as rose, faded as well as peeling surfaces, mistake marbre set above as well as the male with an arm outstretched the la Michelangelo.”

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• “J'ai vu un ange dans le marbre et j'ai ciselé jusqu'à l'en libérer.”

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• “And if a frappeur de puissance (as sluggers are now known) hit a fleche (an "arrow," or line drive) into the right-center field allee, listeners held their breath to hear whether the coureur (base-runner) would round third base and file vers le marbre (dash toward the "marble," or home plate).”

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• “And there is a vessel of marbre, undre the table, to resseyve the oyle, thare of thay yeven unto pylgrymes: for it heleth of many sykenesses.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Ulysse, de se lier au mat du navire, ni de se boucher les oreilles avec de la cire; il ne redoutait pas le chant des Sirenes — il le dedaignait; il se fit marbre et fer pour executer ses grands projets.”

  The Life of Charlotte Bronte

• “_La Vie de bohème_ (1849), adapted from Henri Murger's book with the novelist's help; _Manon Lescaut_ (1851); _Les Filles de marbre_ (1853);”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"

• “Que la patrie reconnaissante ouvre assez grand son coeur pour les contenir tous, les plus humbles comme les plus illustrés, les héros tombés avec gloire à qui l'on prepare des monuments de marbre et de bronze et qui vivront dans l'histoire, et les simples qui rendirent leur dernier souffle en pensant au champ paternel.”

  Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

• “The word is derived from the French _marbre_, marble.”

  A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.

• “Mes colonnes de marbre ont les dieux pour sculpteurs.”

  La Maison du Berger

• “Fut d’imprimer au marbre une grandeur profonde, 10”

  Michel-Ange

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