marmorean
- a variation of marmoreal.
Example Sentences
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Vague onyx columns ranked Corinthian, Or piled Ionic, colonnading heights That loom above long burst of mythic seas: Vast gynaeceums of carnelian; Micaceous temples, far marmorean flights, Where winds the arabesque and plastique frieze.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
No revolution, so far as we are aware, has distracted modern England, and Sir Richard and Lady Burton still sleep in sepulchral pomp in their marmorean Arab Tent at Mortlake.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas
Michel Angelo, named after the angel of justice, as Raphael was after the angel of grace, separated himself from all that was not papal and marmorean.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
Then stately from his seat Birinus rose, And stood in calm marmorean.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
