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There are six splendid Corinthian columns in front and two at the sides, each composed of a single block of green ripple-marked Cipollino marble, about forty-six feet in height and five feet in diameter, with bases and capitals of marble, originally white, but now rusty and discoloured by age; all beautifully proportioned and carved in the finest style of ancient art.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

On this flowery bank, on this ripple-marked shore, are the true literary models.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

The surface of some of these layers is ripple-marked.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

But their layers are often ripple-marked, and contain many tracks of reptiles, imprints of raindrops, and some fossil wood, while an occasional bed of shale is filled with the remains of fishes.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

In Figure 150 we have an illustration of a very ancient ripple-marked sand consolidated to hard stone, uplifted and set on edge by movements of the earth's crust, and exposed to open air after long erosion.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

Below it, fifty yards away to the eastward, a bold spring burst out of the granite rock, spread deep and still and cool over its white sandy bottom, in the stone-walled inclosure where it was confined (over half of which stood the ample milk-house), and then gurgling along the stony outlet ran away over the ripple-marked sands of its worn channel, to join the waters of the creek a mile away.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880

At last she got to the end of the stones, and then, oh joy! there lay before her a beautiful smooth stretch of ripple-marked sand -- how delightful it was to run along it, so firm and pleasant it felt to her tired little feet.

The Rectory Children Mrs. Molesworth 1880

It is often beautifully ripple-marked, and in some places much honeycombed, and full of shales and narrow seams of coal, resting on

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Sandstone surfaces, ripple-marked, are found throughout the subsequent formations: in those of the new red, at more than one place in England, they further bear impressions of rain-drops which have fallen upon them -- the rain, of course, of the inconceivably remote age in which the sandstones were formed.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

The flagstones of Caithness and Orkney, and the argillaceous fish beds of Cromarty and Ross, not only abound in the ripple-marked surfaces of a shallow sea, but also in cracked and flawed planes that must have dried and split into polygonal partings in the air and the sun.

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829