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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
enmarble .
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The Niobe of humanity, stiff and speechless, with her enmarbled children, that used sometimes to be introduced on the Athenian stage for purposes of terror or pity, is here restored to life, and she renders thanks for her deliverance and participates in the general joy to which the piece gives birth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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To behold her was to behold all that man finds most fascinating in woman, but so illumined by the soul within that to look on it with man's eye for charms feminine seemed somewhat like casting sensuous glances upon beauty enmarbled in a temple's fane.
The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889
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