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    ivory


    1. Her skin is the color of thick smoke in the sunset, grayer than ivory, a strange color that went well with her other unique coloration


    2. He will wait for the right moment, when you're under the greatest stress; you've broken up with your boyfriend, you just lost your job, or you spilled red wine all over your favorite ivory dress


    3. God, who wears ivory dresses anymore? That's so yesterday


    4. It was a beautiful ivory carving; polished to a high sheen


    5. In the middle of these was a small black and white ivory box


    6. Do you remember a box--an ivory box? It came on Wednesday


    7. Five year old Veronica sat cross legged on the sunny tiles arranging her doll’s horsehair tresses with a pretty little comb made out of ivory


    8. They had been endeavouring, during the course of the fifteenth century, to find out by sea a way to the countries from which the Moors brought them ivory and gold dust across the desert


    9. Ivory coloured flip-cards above the pointer had appeared faintly - as though they had been there all along


    10. I gave Levi Hart an ivory statuette of a man with his son, I gave Robbie a porcelain tea set and a mirror, and to Mary Coleridge, the barmaid, I gave a lacquered box

    11. world has ever known, painlessly, from his ivory hard-on, a white pillar of dolphins, cherubs and


    12. Regardless of whether you’re wearing the sheer material on the top, bottom or both, you’ll want to avoid wearing a bra and panty set that is light in color, such as white, ivory, bright red, etc


    13. Carved or engraved images on whale ivory


    14. Gorgeous State umbrellas, enormous kinkassies or wardrums, brass-studded chairs, beautifully carved stools, European and native swords, native spears, Ashanti daggers and knives, executioners' blades and torture instruments, brass studded cases, leather fetish caps, silken and cotton cloths, execution stools with recent blood stains, valuable old English chinaware, common table knives, large glass vases, carved wooden sandals, silk and gingham pillows of down and soft cotton, a few tusks, ivory pieces for playing “po” and drafts, a few bottles of brandy, common blunderbusses, old flint locks, a few Sniders, and so on ad infinitum


    15. The front of the ivory linen jacket she had lent her was torn and stained by trails of it, and more matted her hair against the left side of her head while a steady drip fell from her elbow


    16. France did not do it in 1955 when it sent its troops to Algeria to fight against “enraged Muslims”, nor even last year when it sent its troops to the Ivory Coast


    17. Perhaps the international behavior of the United States has not always been ivory pure, but that is another fallacy already evidenced in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq


    18. Elegantly inlaid pieces of ivory, black granite and tether-wood intertwined in flowing designs on the stylish armrests


    19. Her teeth were white as ivory from the outset and her preference for chewing wood and stone kept them that way


    20. Upon reaching The Ivory Towers, he gave me the rest of the day off and entered the building with his shoulders slumped

    21. When I made the decision to jump off the top of The Ivory Towers, I was re-claiming my freedom


    22. I climbed the remaining four flights of stairs with brought me to the door that led out onto the Ivory Tower roof


    23. While an investigation is still pending at this hour, it is believed that the two remaining culprits, Richard Rhodes, age 37 and Derrick Grimsley (Nugget), age 20 also of Newark, fled the crash and police tracked them here to The Ivory Towers where Grimsley was shot and killed by police during a gunfight


    24. 18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold


    25. 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they


    26. 17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and


    27. 8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made you glad


    28. 14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires


    29. 4 Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: your nose is as the tower of


    30. The smell of Ivory soap tinged the air just above his skin

    31. have they made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim


    32. many isles were the merchandise of your hand: they brought you for a present horns of ivory and ebony


    33. And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end,


    34. of violence to come near; 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and


    35. Her mother was stabbed with an ivory knife and her father, was bit by a snake thrown on him by one of the thieves


    36. Anyway back to what I was saying; he may think he sits on some ivory throne at the top of a big tower thinking he’s better than the rest of us, but I’ve seen his type before


    37. even lovelier than I'd anticipated, her cheekbones resting high upon her unpainted, ivory


    38. When Auntie Moll was giving my mother advice about marriage, she had said, ―One does not share one‘s ivory tower


    39. marital bed--the heart-shaped locket nestled between the pristine ivory mounds of her


    40. The House of Ivory, The Thakur, The Soulless, The Gaudium, The Laoshi, The Ogmios and, of course, my own family, The Wyseman

    41. The House of Ivory: They rule over plants and music


    42. My dad was an Ivory


    43. In all those gestures that somehow seemed to reflect Josie’s unspoken desire to make peace and to renew some kind of friendship, Roger was not ivory pure in his lack of positive result


    44. relationships go to waste by sitting in your ivory tower and assuming


    45. Her skin once ivory now looks almost bronze - evenly tanned, and glowing in the sun


    46. For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks


    47. She focused on the colour of the mind-ribbon attaching the three of them, gold, green, ivory


    48. It was not the traditional white dress of today, but it was a faint ivory color


    49. And I see an ivory seat ready placed and on it a linen cushion and above the linen cushion was spread a covering of fine linen


    50. 18:4-20 Come out of her my people so that you are not partakers in her sins and so that you do not receive her plagues because her sins have reached up to Heaven and God has remembered her sins; Reward her double even as she rewarded you and for her double it according to her works; In the cup which she has filled fill it doubly for her; How much she has glorified herself and lived delicately! so therefore give her much torment and sorrow because she says in her heart: “I sit a queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow” therefore her plagues shall come in one day death and mourning and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire because strong is the Lord God who judges her; and the kings of the Earth who have committed fornication and lived delicately with her shall grieve for her and lament for her from the fear of her torment when standing far away they shall see the smoke of her burning saying: Disaster! Disaster! That great city Babylon! that mighty city because in one hour your judgment has come! and the merchants of the Earth shall weep and mourn over her because no man buys their merchandise any more; the merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet and all your wood and all manner vessels of ivory and all manner of vessels of most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble and cinnamon and odours and ointments and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots and slaves and the souls of men; and the fruits that your soul lusted after have departed from you and all things which were dainty and good have departed from you and you shall never find them any more at all; The merchants of these things who were made rich by her shall stand far away from the fear of her torment weeping and wailing and you all will say: Disaster! Disaster! that great city which was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls! because in one hour such enormous riches have come to nothing; and every shipmaster and all the crews in ships and sailors and as many as trade by sea stood far away and cried when they saw the smoke from her burning! They were saying: What city is like this great city! And they threw dust on their heads and cried weeping and wailing saying: Disaster disaster; that great city of which all those who had ships in the sea were made rich because of her costliness because in one hour she was made desolate! Rejoice over her Heaven and you holy apostles and prophets because God has avenged you against her











































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    Synonyms for "ivory"

    bone ivory off-white pearl tusk horn cream-coloured creamy tawny tan

    "ivory" definitions

    a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses


    a shade of white the color of bleached bones