Marble in example sentence

There he perceives a cunningly wrought fountain of many-coloured jasper and polished marble; here another of rustic fashion where the little mussel-shells and the spiral white and yellow mansions of the snail disposed in studious disorder, mingled with fragments of glittering crystal and mock emeralds, make up a work of varied aspect, where art, imitating nature, seems to have outdone it.

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When you see the planet looking like a blue-green marble the way it does in this picture, you're seeing it because the sunlight is reflecting off of it, and that's why you can see the oceans, the clouds, the land.

Another idea that really fascinated me as a child was that an entire galaxy could be contained within a single marble.

And so over here, each book and each world becomes a little marble that I drag in to this magical device within the device.

And it would be the size of a small marble.

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