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Sentences ending with marble

It was very white and still, smooth and cold as marble. [11]
The rose-bush to which Xanthe went grew on the dike that belonged in common to her father and uncle, beside a bench of beautifully-polished white marble. [10]
The hearth, over which Semestre now bent, to fan the glimmering embers with a goose-wing, was made of yellow marble. [10]
Then she had water poured over her head again and again, till, when she desired the maid to desist, she had to lean breathless and almost exhausted against the marble. [10]
It was a vision!--a miracle!--an anthem sung in stone, a poem wrought in marble! [5]
An inscription is the same thing, whether we read it on slate-stone, or granite, or marble. [6]
Opposite stands another successful imitation of the Grecian style of architecture,--a building with a Corinthian porch, also of white marble. [4]
On the stairs stood Patty herself, pale as marble. [9]
But Number Five stirred her tea devotedly; there was a lump of sugar, I suppose, that acted like a piece of marble. [6]
What power can reside in these frail figures of brass or marble? [10]

Short sentences using marble

It is built of marble. [5]
In it lay a marble. [5]

Sentences containing marble two or more times

It is a vast marble collonaded corridor extending around a great unoccupied square of ground; its broad floor is marble, and on every slab is an inscription--for every slab covers a corpse. [5]
It was Georgian, of plum-coloured brick with marble trimmings and marble wedges over the ample windows, some years later I saw the house by Ferguson, of New York, from which Archie had cribbed it. [9]
The marble work, especially, made a great impression on them, as nothing of the kind was to be found in Babylon, Susa or Ecbatane, where burnt brick and cedar-wood supply the place of the polished marble. [10]
The room is divided by a great curtain; you draw this curtain aside, and find a large white marble bathtub, with its rim sunk to the level of the floor, and with three white marble steps leading down to it. [5]
Now he went back to his treasure-house and carefully placed himself just as he had been standing when he tossed the marble away; then he took another marble from his pocket and tossed it in the same way, saying: "Brother, go find your brother! [5]
Under a marble altar like a table, is a circular hole in the marble floor, corresponding with the one just under it in which the true Cross stood. [5]
It consisted of a gigantic sarcophagus made of solid marble blocks, and resting like a house on a substructure composed of six high marble steps. [10]

More example sentences with the word marble in them

You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view. [5]
We need not write their names on these walls, after the fashion of those civic dignitaries who immortalize themselves on tablets of marble and gates of iron. [3]
Side by side with the marble sarcophagus, or those of coarser stone, were wooden coffins and mummy-cases, with a place at the head for the portrait of the deceased. [10]
It is covered with a marble slab which has been much worn by the lips of pilgrims. [5]
One tottering marble, willow-spread, I well remember yet, With only this engraved thereon, "By Joseph to Jeanette. [11]
Then your brow will grow smooth again; and if the model is a success, and you want to buy marble, or pay the founder, then out with your gold, out of the coffer and its hiding-place! [10]
But to those who live, as most of us do, in houses of moderate dimensions, snug, comfortable, which the owner's presence fills sufficiently, leaving room for a few visitors, a vast marble palace is disheartening and uninviting. [6]
The tender smile which played on his features filled her soul with the certainty that he would vouchsafe to be gracious; nay, she could believe that he moved those marble lips and promised to grant her prayer. [10]
A marble mantel, which holds a clock and certain ornaments, is just beyond this door. [9]
They are noble when shaped of solid marble blocks, each carefully beveled for its position. [6]
There was nothing whatever in this dim marble prison but five more of these biers. [5]
Meantime, the abbot was sitting in his pleasantly-warmed study, which was pervaded by a faint, agreeable perfume, gazing now at the logs burning in the beautiful marble mantel-piece, and then at the magistrate, who had brought him strange tidings. [10]
Presently our attention was drawn to a marble medallion portrait on the corner building of an ordinary-looking row of houses. [6]
Myrtle Hazard Lindsay walked up to the bust and kissed its marble forehead, saying, "This is the face of my Guardian Angel. [6]
In the marble vestibule of the Corn National Bank I ran into Tallant, holding his brown straw hat in his hand and looking a little more moth-eaten than usual. [9]
The depots are vast palaces of cut marble, with stately colonnades of the same royal stone traversing them from end to end, and with ample walls and ceilings richly decorated with frescoes. [5]
When you see us offering sacrifice at the foot of a marble image you must not suppose that the lifeless, perishable stone is the object of our adoration. [10]
Its window looked upon a small plat of green, in the midst of which was a single grave marked by a plain marble slab. [6]
Merely to take up the pen was to pass magically through marble portals into the great world itself. [9]
The monuments are unpretending in size, but there are many fine designs, and many finely executed busts and statues and allegorical figures, in both marble and bronze. [4]
The narrow old trim of the doors and windows had been kept, and the quaintly ugly marble mantels. [8]
Sometimes all gazed toward the mouth of the harbour, where the expected ship must soon pass the recently completed masterpiece of Sostratus, the towering lighthouse, still shining in its marble purity. [10]
Only as he took the quiver intended for Antinous, Pollux hesitated a little for it was of solid silver and had been given to his master by the wife of a wealthy cone-dealer, whom he had represented in marble as Artemis equipped for the chase. [10]
He would go to the western window of his study and look at the solitary mound with the marble slab for its head-stone. [6]
My hand went to my left breast,--the color faded from my cheeks,--I was again the cold marble image so like death that it had well-nigh been mistaken for it. [6]
We are ready to move again, though we are not really tired yet of the narrow passages of this old marble cave. [5]
His thoughts recurred to his unfinished marble, as offering the one mode in which he could find a silent outlet to the feelings and thoughts which it was torture to keep imprisoned in his soul. [6]
The only monument to his memory existing is a shabby little marble shaft erected on the southerly summit of Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals. [4]
But it occurred to him that he might as well have the marble he had just thrown away, and therefore he went and made a patient search for it. [5]
Rather than return to her benefactress she would have joined the roofless crew who passed the night on the hard marble pavement of the forecourts of the temple. [10]
The Emperor observed this and said kindly: "You are more to me than the statue, for the marble cannot blush. [10]
One fears that they may come down in the deep night, and stand at the bedside,--those narrow, canopied beds there in the distance, like the marble couches in the cathedral. [4]
Tablets hung on the white marble walls, inscribed with the thanksgivings or vows of those who had been healed. [10]
The purity of the water was sadly dimmed, and the billows dashed foaming toward the sky, threatening in their violent assault to shatter the marble dike erected along the shore. [10]
When I read the Washington correspondence I am proud of my country, to see how many Apollo Belvederes, Adonises, how much marble brow and piercing eye and hyacinthine locks, we have in the two houses of Congress. [4]
The soft light, the warmth, the exotic odour of the plants, the well-dressed people who trod softly the strip of carpet set on the marble with the air of being at home--all contributed to an excitement, intense yet benumbing. [9]
They save themselves the toilsome search for the model which others so successfully used before them, and bronze and marble still keep wonderfully well. [10]
The dance answers the purpose of the revolving pedestal upon which the "White Captive" turns, to show us the soft, kneaded marble, which looks as if it had never been hard, in all its manifold aspects of living loveliness. [6]
Twenty-four years after the publication of his first work, and six years before his death, his bust in marble was placed in the Hall of the College of Physicians, with a suitable inscription recording his discoveries. [3]
They say that the new temple of Zeus, now being built of glorious marble by Kallaeschrus, Antistates and Porinus (who must be known to you, Theodorus), will surpass every building that has yet been erected by the Hellenes. [10]
The walls of the men's apartment were painted of a reddish-brown color, against which the outlines of some white marble carvings, the gift of a Chian sculptor, stood out in sharp relief. [10]
Within, they crossed the marble pavement, the Honourable Dave handed her into an elevator, and when it stopped she followed him as in a dream to an oak-panelled door marked with a legend she did not read. [9]
The centre of the lower story was formed by a lofty hall of vast dimensions, in whose midst were the large marble sarcophagi. [10]
The "Introducer" commanded the guard to admit no other visitors, and soon the little white marble, circular room with its vaulted roof received the Queen. [10]
The inside of the great mosque is very showy with variegated marble walls and with windows and inscriptions of elaborate mosaic. [5]
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery--go! [5]
Every thing about the church is marble, and all from the same quarry; it was bequeathed to the Archbishopric for this purpose centuries ago. [5]
Every portion of the building blazed with gold and vivid coloring; the painter's hand had added life to the marble groups in high relief that filled the pediments and the smaller figures in the long row of metopes. [10]
I go to that matchless Hyde Park and drive all around it, and then I start to enter it at the Marble Arch---and--am induced to "change my mind. [5]
But there--what was that gleaming under the two palm-trees which, springing from the same root, had grown together tall and slender--was not that a flight of marble steps leading down to the sea? [10]
Blood is thicker than water,--and warmer than marble, I said to myself, as I laid my hand on the cold stone image of the once famous Admiral. [6]
In the pure sunshine and under a deep blue sky, its white marble glows with an almost ethereal beauty. [4]
But some were stripped and littered with scaffolding and plaster, new and costly marble mantels were replacing the wood, and an Italian of some renown was decorating the ceilings. [9]
Our Cyraenian horses stood in marble stalls, and the great hall, in which my father's friends were wont to meet, was like a temple. [10]
On a high, steep hill, toward the sea, is a gray ruin of ponderous blocks of marble, wherein, tradition says, St. Paul was imprisoned eighteen centuries ago. [5]
It was a stately room, surrounded by marble columns, which bore witness to the owner's wealth, for the floor was beautifully adorned with bright-hued pictures, mosaic work executed in colored stones by an artist from Syracuse. [10]
There is a splendid city on the plain; there are temples and theatres on the hills; the commerce of the world seeks its port; the luxury of the Orient flows through its marble streets. [4]
It is a solemn city of winding streets and of miniature marble temples and mansions of the dead gleaming white from out a wilderness of foliage and fresh flowers. [5]
There was a small portico, with marble pillars, and in the ample, swift sloping roof many dormers; servants' rooms, Archie explained. [9]
He found the slight wound on the temple, then took the candle from Nahoum and held it close to the corner of the marble pedestal. [11]
It was long since any youthful figure had so vividly reminded him of the marble statues of the great Athenian masters. [10]
On the farther side, in an alcove, was a huge dressing-table; a fire was laid in the grate of the marble mantel, the curtains in the bay window were tightly drawn, and near by was a lounge with a reading-light. [9]
In this deserted, shady spot, between these thick marble walls, it was much cooler than outside. [10]
He did not see her marble beauty forming a complete whole with her dress, but all the charm of her body only covered by her garments. [2]
Moths flitted noiselessly round and over the clumps of bushes, and the whole quiet and restful enclosure was full of sweetness from the Lotos flowers in the marble basin, from the blossoms of the luxuriant shrubs and the succulent tropical herbs at their feet. [10]
He is as quiet now as if he were of marble. [12]
Gold and ivory, purple sails, bronze and marble statues at the prow and stern, and in the little shrines on the after-deck, combined in a gorgeous display, made all the more brilliant by the low sun, which added vividness to every hue. [10]
Fame's nothing--the market price of your marble scarecrow is the thing to look at. [5]
Our family burial place--my mother's stone cross now stands there beside my father's--was one of those bounded in the rear by the church yard wall; a marble slab set in the masonry bears the owner's name. [10]
There was a pitcher of water and a tumbler on an old marble sideboard near by. [6]
Every temple and palace was transformed into a giant candelabrum, and the rows of lamps on the quay stretched like tendrils of light from the dazzlingly illuminated marble Temple of Poseidon to the palace at Lochias, steeped in radiance. [10]
I held my own lamp close to her, as if she had been a figure of marble, and she did not stir. [6]
He had roughed out a block of marble for that impersonation; sculpture was a delight to him, though secondary to his main pursuit. [6]
We took off our shoes and went into the marble mausoleum of the Sultan Mahmoud, the neatest piece of architecture, inside, that I have seen lately. [5]
No marble Cupids or tall Dianas fill the niches in the staircase, and the mahogany board, round which has been gathered many a famous toast and wit, is gone from the dining room. [9]
A man lay on the hard marble, a man who had drawn his light cloak over his face to protect himself from the rays of the sun, now rising higher and higher. [10]
He sat down on one of the marble seats by the parapet of this hanging garden and looked westward. [10]
The minutes flew on and became hours, till at last Melissa begged him to quit the marble seat on which they had so long been resting, if indeed her feet could still carry her home. [10]
A marble column on a green meadow is all that remains of a once prosperous city. [4]
You have broken off the end of your spinal column, and littered up the floor with chips of your hams till the place looks like a marble yard. [5]
The triangular insertions of white marble and large flowers have in like manner given place to fine inlaid work. [5]
Pollux was out of the way, but I laid my hand at once on his work; the young master must execute it immediately in marble. [10]
The white marble of the tallest beacon tower in the world, on the island of Pharos, reflected a rosy hue, but its far gleaming light shone pale and colorless. [10]
A silver image of the saint, half life-size, stands upon the rich marble altar. [4]
But the feature of the place is a short column that rises from the middle of the marble pavement of the chapel, and marks the exact centre of the earth. [5]
The battered remnant of the marble monument has been removed to the National Cemetery. [5]
The marble statue of the Emperor in the Caesareum represented the sovereign in this same attitude. [10]
The marble casements of the doors had been shattered in several places, and the double doors themselves pierced all over with bullet holes, from the musketry that played upon them from the staircase during that eventful night. [4]
Near the altar of the church at Bald Hills there was a chapel over the tomb of the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to fly upwards. [2]
So the cost of the building is put into marble halls and idiotic decoration of all kinds. [8]
The massive arches of some of these ruins rest upon piers that are fifteen feet square and built entirely of solid blocks of marble, some of which are as large as a Saratoga trunk, and some the size of a boarding-house sofa. [5]
But on top of it was reared a crude wooden dome, like a clay head on a marble statue. [9]
White marble relief-portraits of him are sold all about India. [5]
The upper third of Cephron was coated with dressed marble, smooth as glass. [5]
The rumor was of a Mr. Isaac Dudley Worthington, a name destined to make much rumor before it was to be carved on the marble. [9]
The dogs would not stir beyond the threshold and on the white marble step, towards the right-hand side, the print of a man's foot was found in the dust. [10]
Would my honour not have Mrs. Marble cook my dinner, and be dressed for Lady Pembroke's ball? [9]
If it were not for attracting speculators, we should delight to speak of the beds of coal, the quarries of marble, the mines of gold. [4]
It is a noble interior, having twenty-four marble columns of gray Cippolino, brought from Constantinople, with composite capitals, on each of which is an impost with Latin crosses sculptured on it. [4]
You will excuse my wearing my hat, but the palace is damp, and the marble floor is--if I may be allowed the expression--sloppy. [12]

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