The original statuette in alabaster is now in the Gizeh Museum; the Cyprian style of the figure is easily recognised.
Break the jelly with your whisk, and put one pound of alabaster to it, then dilute it with some of the wine, put it in the pipe, bung it close, and in a day it will be fine and bright.
The Sphinx was bared to the rock-level, and the famous granite and alabaster monument miscalled the "Temple of the Sphinx" was discovered.
Henriette, white as an alabaster statue, leaned on the arm of her less agitated friend; but at the first step she swayed.
A night lamp burned in an alabaster globe suspended from the ceiling; but it was evident that the room had not been occupied.
Her black hair, falling loosely back, in a dozen fairy ringlets, seemed almost to sparkle in its contrast with her alabaster forehead.
Her beautiful face, as white as the alabaster Psyche near her, was full of wild and demoniac expressions, which chased each other with the velocity of clouds over her countenance.
Daylight was carefully excluded; andalabaster lamps threw a soft, moon-lit radiance, through flowers and garlands, over the scene.
Near it stood a small marble table, supported by an alabaster Psyche, around which were strewn perfumes, jewel-cases, and various costly articles for toilette uses.
By degrees my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness and I perceived an alabaster statue of the goddess Isis of the size of life, who held in her arms an ivory child, also lifesize.
She too stood silent and I saw that beneath her thin veil her beautiful face was set and pale as that of an alabaster statue.
It struck the shrine, overturned and shattered it, which makes me think it was made of four pieces, and shattered also the alabaster statue within, for I saw its head strike George upon the back and throw him forward.
Basketful by basketful we got it out and then, my friend, there appeared the most beautiful life-sized statue of Isis carved in alabaster that ever I have seen.
She was no Herodias, calling for the head of an enemy, but the humble Mary, breaking the alabaster box to anoint the martyr of her cause; weeping at His cross and watching at His grave.
And they will continue to break the alabaster box.
Gulf of Taranto; has a fine cathedral and castle; valuable quarries of marble and alabaster are wrought in the vicinity.
It glowed with rage, as if a fire had been built in an alabaster vase.
As on that fateful day at the Clubhouse, it was as though a fire had been built in an alabaster vase.
One shining pane, in particular, bears date 1286, which alone preserves the memory of a knight whose iron armor has long since perished with rust, and whose alabasternose has moldered from his monument.
The alabaster wall would burst asunder, and the flame of the lamp would burn up the world.
In course of time she arrived at the alabaster pillars, and, passing out between them, she found Tom the Cat awaiting her.
Sometimes he would amuse himself with looking through the alabaster walls into the outer rooms, Cada and Bra.
Sure enough, a part of the alabaster wall slid back, so that the children were able to look into the room beyond.
Now the sword seemed to be brandished about the great lamp, its point against the children, who shrank back in fear towards the alabaster wall.
So off she started, and after passing between the alabaster pillars she came to a road on which the gold-dust lay an inch thick; for it seldom rains in the centre of the earth.
You shall cleanse these rooms that you have defiled, until they are as pure as they appeared when you looked on them through the alabaster wall.
They preferred the small clocks in ebony or alabaster casings with ormolu mounts.
Ornaments were there, too,--alabaster images and nineteen gaily decorated porcelain dishes.
These extended around them, as far as our travellers could see, presenting on all sides a picture of alabaster whiteness.
The shades of evening were closing over the earth, and the alabaster hills were assuming an ashy blue colour, when the little cavalcade emerged from the dusty ravines of gypsum, and once more trod the green prairie.
The "pictures in stone" were doubtless the alabaster images of the reredos, fragments of which are still preserved in the church, exquisite in modelling and colour.
If you lifted Wasp up in your arms to have a look at him, he flashed his alabaster teeth in your face one moment, and fleshed them in your nose the next.
As he spoke, the dog lifted one lip, and showed such a display of alabaster teeth, that Jeannie was glad to retire without raising the rent.
I took one of her rosy nipples in my mouth, and while she was pumping up my spermatic treasures, I sucked and titillated the cunning little strawberry top of her alabaster globes.
I now carried my hand to her globes of alabaster and pressed and molded them, imitating her in all her actions.
Her chemise had fallen off her shoulder, beautifully rounded, and two globes of alabaster reposing on a field of snow.
This Aubrey has much gypsum in it, great beds of alabaster that are pure white in comparison with the great body of limestone below.
These are the elements with which the walls are constructed, from black buttress below to alabaster tower above.
In another mummy-case he had neglected an alabaster jar and the cover of an embroidery-box which he must have carried across the chamber to a second bed, on which it now lay beside a superb gilded chair.
The monotony of the inner walls was relieved by alabaster reaching around the halls from twelve to fifteen feet above the floors, and held in place by strong iron clamps.
The first day I got the coveted prize, a piece of alabaster vessel with the name of Amenemhet III.
Of the scenes depicted on the slabs of alabaster in the state apartments Rawlinson writes at length: "The most striking characteristic of Sennacherib's ornamentation is its strong and marked realism.
In the bottom of a mummy-case, from which the thief had removed the cover, he had left a cushion and a graceful alabaster vase.
He still carried with him the same fetich, a rude alabaster figure of the panther, which we saw dangling from his necklace on the day he went to visit the tapop.
Earrings shimmered in her ears, and necklaces of golden plates inlaid with silver sparkled around a neck that was round and polished like an alabaster column.
Burton was the scene of several engagements in the Civil War, when its large trade in clothing and alabaster was practically ruined.
Ornaments are manufactured by the inhabitants from alabaster and spar; and excellent lime is burned at the quarries near Poole's Hole.
