onyx marble
AmericanEtymology
Origin of onyx marble
First recorded in 1890–95
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It could be the waiting room at a doctor’s office on the Upper East Side, if not for the glass cupboards lined with lidded ornamental vases made of stone, onyx, marble and colored glass.
From Salon • Oct. 7, 2012
Seen from orbit, the planet was a shiny onyx marble covered in overlapping spiderwebs of pulsating light.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
The onyx marble mantel-piece contained but a single ornament—an orchestra.
From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Lane, Mary E. Bradley
Important mines of gold and silver, considerable deposits of wolframite, valuable ores of molybdenum and vanadium, and quarries of onyx marble, are also worked.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
Stalagmite sheets are sometimes composed of variegated, laminated layers, and when polished produce a beautiful decorative stone which passes under the name of onyx marble.
From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)
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