Marble
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It was paved with
marble
slabs, was very lofty, and the sound of footsteps and that of voices re-echoed through it as in a church.
She was so sad and so calm, at once so gentle and so reserved, that near her one felt oneself seized by an icy charm, as we shudder in churches at the perfume of the flowers mingling with the cold of the
marble.
The light fell on it as on a piece of marble, to the curve of the eyebrows, without one's being able to guess what Emma was seeing on the horizon or what she was thinking within herself.
Often from the top of a mountain there suddenly glimpsed some splendid city with domes, and bridges, and ships, forests of citron trees, and cathedrals of white marble, on whose pointed steeples were storks' nests.
He had that splendid pallor that gives something of the majesty of
marble
to the ardent races of the South.
Charles, who understood, took out his purse; the clerk held back his arm, and did not forget to leave two more pieces of silver that he made chink on the
marble.
But the reflections of the paintings, broken by the
marble
rim, were continued farther on upon the flag-stones, like a many-coloured carpet.
For my part, I have only one fault to find with the _Cours de la Fidelite_; one reads this, its official title, in fifteen or twenty places, on
marble
slabs which have won M. de Renal yet another Cross; what I should be inclined to condemn in the Cours de la Fidelite is the barbarous manner in which the authorities keep these sturdy plane trees trimmed and pollarded.
There were, in particular, four
marble
pillars the sight of which impressed Julien; they became famous throughout the countryside, owing to the deadly enmity which they aroused between the Justice of the Peace and the young vicar, sent down from Besancon, who was understood to be the spy of the Congregation.
'Sit down here, near me,' she said, and pointed to a
marble
table, almost entirely hidden by the enormous mahogany counter which protruded into the room.
A richly gilded wooden crown was supported on eight great twisted columns of Italian
marble.
The cab stopped; the drier lifted the bronze knocker on an immense door: it was the HOTEL DE LA MOLE; and, so that the passer-by might be left in no doubt of this, the words were to be read on a slab of black
marble
over the door.
There stood in his room a magnificent bust in
marble
of Cardinal Richelieu, which persistently caught his eye.
In spite of the most admirable resolutions, her womanly pride prevented her every day from saying to Julien: 'It was because I was speaking to you that I found pleasure in the thought of my weakness in not withdrawing my hand when M. de Croisenois laid his hand on a
marble
table beside mine, and managed to touch it.'
When Fouque had summoned up the strength to look at her, she had placed Julien's head upon a little
marble
table, in front of her, and was kissing his brow ...Mathilde followed her lover to the tomb which he had chosen for himself.
K. went over to a nearby side chapel to see what they could have hoped for, he went up a few steps to a low
marble
railing and leant over it to look at the altar picture by the light of his torch.
The head was without a cap, and the hair drawn up from the countenance so as to give to the eye all the loveliness of a forehead as polished as
marble
and as white as snow.
Until the fire, which raged as the British troops took possession of New York, had laid Trinity in ashes, a goodly gilded tablet on its walls proclaimed the virtues of his deceased parents, and beneath a flag of marble, in one of the aisles of the church, their bones were left to molder in aristocratical repose.
In it lay a
marble.
Then he tossed the
marble
away pettishly, and stood cogitating.
If you buried a
marble
with certain necessary incantations, and left it alone a fortnight, and then opened the place with the incantation he had just used, you would find that all the marbles you had ever lost had gathered themselves together there, meantime, no matter how widely they had been separated.
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.
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!"
I can remember that my eyes caught a little knob of
marble
as broad as my palm, which was imbedded in one of the grey stones of the rockery, and I found time to admire its delicate mottling.
He had a broad chest, large short muscles, and a white, well-nourished body; death had made a
marble
statue of him.
Therese had risen, looking quite pale in her nightdress, and stood half thrown back, with her elbow resting on the
marble
mantelpiece.
Therese, who was almost lying back on the
marble
chimney-piece, gave a supreme gesture of disgust, and in a supplicating voice exclaimed:"Oh! no, not on that part.
"Happy the age, happy the time," he continued, "in which shall be made known my deeds of fame, worthy to be moulded in brass, carved in marble, limned in pictures, for a memorial for ever.
At this Don Quixote heaved a deep sigh and said, "I cannot say positively whether my sweet enemy is pleased or not that the world should know I serve her; I can only say in answer to what has been so courteously asked of me, that her name is Dulcinea, her country El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are verified in her; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as rational reflection can only extol, not compare."
He loved deeply, he was hated; he adored, he was scorned; he wooed a wild beast, he pleaded with marble, he pursued the wind, he cried to the wilderness, he served ingratitude, and for reward was made the prey of death in the mid-course of life, cut short by a shepherdess whom he sought to immortalise in the memory of man, as these papers which you see could fully prove, had he not commanded me to consign them to the fire after having consigned his body to the earth."
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