porphyry

• Between every tower, in the midst of the said body of building, there was a winding stair, whereof the steps were part of porphyry, which is a dark-red marble spotted with white, part of Numidian stone, and part of serpentine marble; each of those steps being two-and-twenty feet in length and three fingers thick, and the just number of twelve betwixt every landing-place. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• I climb thy mountains of amygdaloid and porphyry-- thy crags of quartz, that yield the white silver and the yellow gold. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• A whole mountain side even may be illuminated by the multitude of flames, making the granite, porphyry, and limestone glow with colors more gorgeous than those borrowed from the light of day. —  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
• The urn was of porphyry, the altar upon which it stood of Carrara marble, and the tomb itself of Thesian marble. —  Pagan and Christian Rome
• Suddenly he turned to a tripod of porphyry, and, seizing a rosary of jewels, pressed it to his lips The Spirit of my dreams, she comes at last; the form for which I have sighed and wept; the form which rose upon my radiant vision when I shut my eyes against the jarring shadows of this gloomy world Schirene! —  Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity

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