alabastrine

The box I set in a casket, and enclosing this in seven other caskets and seven chests, laid the whole in a alabastrine coffer,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.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Half-turning she lifted her robe to expose the alabastrine rounds of her buttocks.

Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

Synelle herself traveled in a gilded litter, borne by eight muscular slaves and curtained with fine silken net to admit the breeze yet keep the sun from her alabastrine skin.

Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

Synelle was there, and four other women, alabastrine-skinned blondes who seemed to wear variations of one face.

Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

Royal palaces were often decorated with reliefs depicting conquests, &c., carved on slabs of alabastrine marble placed along the brick walls, with great statues of human - headed bulls (_Cherubim_), &c.

How to Observe in Archaeology Various

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 Edmund Gosse 1888

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.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

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 John Addington Symonds 1866

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.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

At the head of every saloon a latticed window projected over the garden whereof the description shall follow in its place; and they paved the ground with vari-coloured marbles and alabastrine slabs which were dubbed with bezel stones and onyx [FN#186] of

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855