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1. The marble was carved in sensuous designs, the grillwork was well polished
2. Two thousand years of foot traffic had worn the floors to rolling hills, the glass in the windows had sagged and the marble plumbing fixtures were heavily eroded, though they were just replaced a few centuries ago
3. She came down the marble steps to the main floor of their home, eleven floors above the water
4. It sounded like his voice, she started to hurry across the marble of the entry hall floor
5. The balcony is made of white marble with an ornate
6. The door grates, then sticks half open against the marble
7. A bearskin rug stares slack jawed and empty eyed from its place on the gleaming marble floor
8. The trucks rumble on through the suburban outskirts of Abu Jeba, heading toward the faraway city with it’s plethora of irrigated date palms, ostentatious skyline, it’s tacky, marble festooned buildings
9. The lower floors looked to be holding older marble together with the synthetic stone shell
10. She seemed almost translucent, but deep and ancient in her marble perfection
11. He had marble custom cut and designed for it
12. He had Italian marble imported from Rome for columns
13. So they covered the whole thing in marble
14. To this day, if you go to the area that Caesarea used to be, you can find pieces of marble in the sand and on the tide
15. all done in Italian marble
16. I realise Athens too has its unfair share of insidious tourist traps just like Cornwall and no doubt the traffic is nightmare and yes, it's a sprawling jumble of concrete and marble, of ancient and modern, of the implausible and the miraculous, but then they say Athens teems with spectacular sights, superb cafes, and much more that you just won't find in any modern city
17. They played across the intricate cast marble that beamed the walls and ceilings and glinted on the frames of the treasured artworks that lined the forty-foot long side wall of this study
18. 'You can still see the ruins of the chapel of Agia Melina surrounded by big chunks of marble
19. Tarak came to her side and followed her into her private chambers, clicking his cane on the marble floor
20. My hands stroked the old, old stones bordering the ruins of the basilica of Agia Melina and by climbing on one at my feet I was able to look over the walls at the proud white marble columns still upright in the grounds
21. He watched them in the town’s marble halled shopping mall of a Saturday afternoon and at work during the week
22. They walked only across the street and up a few broad steps to a wide marble portico
23. those electrons inside the marble statue in Omi's temple
24. 'There is a marble competition in my pol
25. comes this marble player who has this freakish gift
26. day and never attended the marble tournament
27. Nelson’s column, they walked over to the white marble steps of
28. The main entry was carved marble and glass
29. It was palatial, with polished marble floors, fine carpets and hangings, ornate wall sconces, soft music, live blooms ringing the ceilings and a large fish tank dividing the front room from the dining area
30. He watched them in the town’s marble halled
31. She wasn’t really going with anyone lately, but she still spent a lot of time in his universe, most of it in the Highlands, and now she was spending a lot of sleeps back in the Yakhan in a small marble palace off Third Canal
32. Once inside, the street became a great hallway of marble and cast stone, ornately carved and chillingly ancient
33. The hallway was four floors in height, lit by gaslight chandeliers or skylights instead of glow-panels, lined by finely-carved marble railings on the upper floors
34. Brad placed the marble on Tom’s palm, and then laid a hand on
35. The marble seemed to soften in his
36. His place is a veritable palace, they bathed in a delicately carved marble bath both before and after
37. Her skin shines like marble in a Vatican courtyard
38. The place itself was lavish with lots of marble and laced-glass windows
39. I have 441 of the pictures on file, let me see that marble again, I’ll compare it
40. ” He took the marble and put it in a device
41. Roman’s back ached, pushed against the marble of the hallway; the thin checkered
42. Marble gave way to hard wood floors at the arched doorway, the far wall was nearly encompassed with a marble fireplace, there were no bookcases in this room, unlike in the other home’s and the walls were a solid plaster, painted white
43. I used to have a British flight instructor who talked about his stay at Corunna Downs secret WWII airbase near Marble Bar during the war
44. They reached the sealed road and slipped past Marble Bar at 02:57 and reached the 138 highway back to Port Hedland
45. There were miles and miles of marble city blocks, big canals and many smaller lakes choked with ships
46. There it sat, on a pedestal of white marble
47. From one end of the hall to the other -- well over five hundred feet -- the multicolored windows filled the northern wall, their panes of color and pictures of heroes only briefly interrupted by pillars of polished marble stretching from the floor to the ceiling
48. It was all done in finely cast marble, lit by silent mantled lanterns and upholstered in brightly patterned velvets
49. She ascended a stairway of white marble and at last reached her destination, the Chamber of Knowing
50. On the wall to his left was a statue of white marble depicting a female Keeper her slender hips and ample breasts only slightly hidden beneath a lavish jewel encrusted robe
1. Marbled with mortification
2. White linen hand towels hung within ready grasp and a dish with hand-cut marbled soap sat also in close reach
3. The youth pushed Ben up the ramp, through the marbled entrance hall and into the library itself
4. As he walked down the marbled hall, he couldn’t help notice all the ornate decorations of long ago
5. And above the carved marbled fireplace a gold framed painting of 'Christ the King', gazed down benignly over it all
6. Apparently the marbled salamander, dicamptodon ensatus, a species of the Pacific giant salamander; could produce vocal utterances
7. The marbled murrelet is a diving seabird that has sued the Pacific Lumber and the 9th Circuit Court decided that the lumber company had to stop logging
8. The marbled murrelet is a diving seabird that has sued the Pacific Lumber and the 9th Circuit Court decided that the lumber company had to stop logging on 65 acres and also had to pay the legal expenses of $1
9. The layers of grey clouds, some of them marbled with dark
10. into them, and marbled veins of lighter rock that streaked
11. The reception area was marbled, shiny and echoed just enough to say ‘money is no object
12. In a panic I tried to get away, but I was suddenly lifted from the sofa and dragged the entire length of the foyer with my feet barely touching the white marbled floor
13. The Marbled Cat is roughly the size of a domesticated cat
14. to a domesticated cat but with marbled patterns on their coats
15. The Marbled Cat can be found in Nepal, Northeast India,
16. The Marbled Cat weighs 4
17. gray-coloured marbled floor, and then proceeded to run to the
18. The boys were seated on a U-shaped leather bench around a marbled table, each with
19. der as he led Jason over the marbled foyer in the
20. Then, I caught something dark and red splattered on the marbled kitchen island
21. Footsteps echoed on the white marbled floors of the imposing foyer, heralding the arrival of the man of the house
22. They were handsome; their edges--she couldn't see them, but she was sure--were marbled
23. On the left was a white marbled bathroom with large shower
24. On entering the building one is struck by the cleanliness of the marbled foyer, the hospitable greeting by the two commissionaires and the constant comings and goings of eager looking young officials and their aides
25. There was a huge white marbled statue of Medusa in a hostile position, and around her were four statues of young men looking distressed as they gazed upon her
26. “I hate to change the subject,” I said, looking around the immaculate white tiled floor and marbled kitchen counters, “but your house isn’t anything at all like I expected
27. He was walking up the marbled stairs that led to the first floor
28. Perseus was sent tumbling down the giant marbled stairs
29. Her blood flowed copiously down the marbled stairs
30. Curved leather sofas and black marbled tables lined the sides of the room, most of them already filled with hipsters, drinking and talking loudly over the music
31. There was nothing but the wind against the windows, the rain spattering out their own song, the marbled Madonna smiling down at them
32. Then, I caught sight of something dark and red splattered on the marbled kitchen island
33. of art marbled in flesh and bone and given mystery and allure
34. Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at ₣20,000; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering–pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top–shell snails—greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun–carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred–star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery–furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother–of–pearl; green
35. There were whitish eels of the species Gymnotus fasciatus that passed like elusive wisps of steam, conger eels three to four meters long that were tricked out in green, blue, and yellow, three–foot hake with a liver that makes a dainty morsel, wormfish drifting like thin seaweed, sea robins that poets call lyrefish and seamen pipers and whose snouts have two jagged triangular plates shaped like old Homer's lyre, swallowfish swimming as fast as the bird they're named after, redheaded groupers whose dorsal fins are trimmed with filaments, some shad (spotted with black, gray, brown, blue, yellow, and green) that actually respond to tinkling handbells, splendid diamond–shaped turbot that were like aquatic pheasants with yellowish fins stippled in brown and the left topside mostly marbled in brown and yellow, finally schools of wonderful red mullet, real oceanic birds of paradise that ancient Romans bought for as much as 10,000 sesterces apiece, and which they killed at the table, so they could heartlessly watch it change color from cinnabar red when alive to pallid white when dead
36. Filet mignon or rib eye, we’re all imperfect cuts, marbled by fears and insecurities, even the best of men
37. The mossy thatch of the cow-shed, the broken gray barn-doors, the pauper laborers in ragged breeches who had nearly finished unloading a wagon of corn into the barn ready for early thrashing; the scanty dairy of cows being tethered for milking and leaving one half of the shed in brown emptiness; the very pigs and white ducks seeming to wander about the uneven neglected yard as if in low spirits from feeding on a too meagre quality of rinsings,—all these objects under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all paused over as a "charming bit," touching other sensibilities than
38. What I work for is a visually beautiful expression, with a sauce of sour cherries, a marbled almond milk ice cream that is spread out on the plate, and our own, pitted morello cherries
39. The almond ice cream is marbled with a syrup that is developed through reducing Kriek (Belgian cherry beer) with fresh cherries and sugar
40. Through stubbled fields, over glitters of ravine creek, down marbled spread of cemetery yard, into woods
41. It was the pterodactyl kite and scythe which raised his arms almost to fly the marbled vaults
42. velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day’s sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white
43. Breeders of cattle wish the flesh and fat to be well marbled together
44. The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings
45. It had a double row of windows, a gallery, marbled walls, and three immense chandeliers with glass lusters covered with shades
1. 'Let us say we have a jar with four red and six blue marbles
2. Ali looked at me with his two green marbles
3. I heard the rustle of marbles
4. I threw the four marbles high in the air towards him
5. Ali looked away from his game and saw the marbles midair
6. 'So why doesn't he care? Marbles? Can you believe the boy is more interested
7. glass globe, a little larger than even the biggest of the glass marbles
8. “It isn’t marbles, its GOLF,” cried an angry Mr
9. only heard that people lose their marbles on an overdose of
10. hooch, but never had I expected to witness marbles so utterly
11. many marbles tossed across a polished floor, it was now useless as a shield
12. loose my marbles” his eyes red “Are you starting going out with
13. Faery Prince? In her bedroom? She must be losing her marbles
14. But it looked like she had finally grown really old, and thus, really weird in many ways, to the point that some courts would probably even deem she had lost her marbles for good
15. The property management guy had told me that she was harmless, just a little off the wall and quickly losing whatever marbles remained
16. His eyes were the small hard black marbles of a pig
17. “Have your lost your marbles?” He bellowed at Sim
18. Boyd did not put enough fertilizer on them and we had to pull up a lot of stalks before we got enough, and then they were not much bigger than marbles
19. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise in a moving car
20. marbles to play this game of life
21. These marbles will be the tools used to carry out all of life"s activities
22. Going into mid-life, we usually have plenty of our marbles left, but then what jumps in front of us is the questions of one"s mind, as in, “Honey, have you seen the car keys?”
23. We realize somewhere along the line that the old phrase, “They"re losing their marbles,”
24. We will discover that the game is over when we have too few marbles to play with
25. Fil ed with colored cats eye marbles
26. Your collection of marbles grows rapidly
27. We would stand over the box and try to drop marbles into them, but you had to do it in a certain sequence or the marbles wouldn’t come out because of the little trapdoors inside
28. I remember carrying it around and shaking it furiously, trying to get the marbles out
29. “What on earth is the matter with you? Have you lost your marbles? Only yesterday you were sulking around the place and now you want to kill me with your crazy antics!”
30. With the soft clatter of marbles, precious stones scattered onto the table
31. When Microsoft first entered the home console gaming arena with the original Xbox, many felt as if the world famous software developer has lost its marbles
32. Buy some small glass bowls and place colored glass marbles in the
33. The skin of her face was thin and leathery over her skull, and her eyes were glassy white slits, as if the real eyes had been replaced by marbles; she’d been dead a long, long time
34. I came to think that if it were up to him, I would have been thrown to the marbles of the burning hell, ravaging my flesh with a sharp rake to make more infamous my pain
35. Each one was an individual Universe, and all of them looked like blurry, coloured marbles
36. The mossy marbles rest
37. I wasn"t sure if he suddenly lost his marbles, or if it was the potency of the rice wine
38. He saw Lezura’s eyes widen into pink marbles
39. The gnome then all of a sudden started to cry and tears were falling like marbles making a small puddle by it"s side
40. And all the while S’us was having the conversation with her sister a few people were staring at the woman; who was talking to herself like she lost her precious marbles
41. “Have you lost your marbles boy-o,” Owen said with a look
42. The door panel chirped; Donna’s eyes turned to two black marbles
43. together for protection, thinking that old Malthouse had lost his marbles taking
44. had obviously lost his marbles though
45. marbles somewhere old man
46. They are packing up their marbles and going home to play
47. “Absolutely not, it sounds pretty crazy doesn’t it?” She said to her Moqui marbles
48. Asia bent over and gingerly placed a finger on one of the marbles then swiftly scooped both up with her bare hand and said, “They are not hot at all
49. “They are called Moqui marbles, sometimes thunderballs, or shaman stones
50. She had the pup on her lap wrapped in her arms and the Moqui marbles clenched tightly in her fist
1. And a spasm, a marbling of conflict, passed through Cliff’s over-bright face as he
2. The stone was a Tourmaline; medium green with purple marbling cut into the shape of a rosette, which matched the embroidered flowers on my gown and his waistcoat
3. We’ve got nice marbling in this pork
4. If they dared they might have bent to tremble their hands over that suddenly death-sweet mouth, the marbling brow
5. Most of you will, no doubt, have observed the sort of marbling or grain upon the stone of our old buildings, such as the Town-Hall, which I believe was obtained from quarries occupying the site of the St