marmorean

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Sorrow had given soul to her marmorean beauty.

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  • Sorrow had given soul to her marmorean beauty. —  King Candaules
  • Burton still sleep in sepulchral pomp in their marmorean Arab Tent at Mortlake. —  The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • Others again, no less colossal, were disposed upon the steps of a monumental staircase which, by their decorative presence and marmorean immobility, was made worthy to be named, like that god-crowned ascent in the Palace of the Doges, the —  Swann's Way
  • But, if we agree to put Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and a few others on marmorean pedestals in a special Hall of Fame (and this is a compromise on my part, at any rate, as I consider much of the music written by even these men to be below any moderately high standard), what about the rest? —  The Merry-Go-Round
  • This must have been at the hours when we were left discreetly to our own fortitude, through our aunt's availing herself of the relative proximity to go and shop at Stewart's and then come back for us; the ladies 'great shop, vast, marmorean, plate-glassy and notoriously fatal to the female nerve (we ourselves had wearily trailed through it, hanging on the skirts, very literally, of indecision) which bravely waylaid custom on the Broadway corner of Chambers Street. —  A Small Boy and Others
 

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