It had a square-butted ivory handle, and as I saw that ivory handle I knew what the white thing was that had flashed by me only a moment before to fell Mink Satterlee so expeditiously.
The Ethiopians wear embroidered garments, and use ivory cups as drinking vessels; their women adorn themselves with ivory bracelets; and their horses also are adorned with ivory.
Ivory and ebony must, beyond a doubt, have been Arabian importations.
His skin and hair and eyes were dark, and his long nervous fingers flitted over the paper on which he sketched various phases of the Castelletto work very much as those of a pianist flit above his ivory keys.
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present, horns of ivory and ebony.
Drawings were made of a collection of Eskimo pictographs and ivory carvings at the museum of the Alaska Commercial Company and the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal.
At Port Townsend sketches were obtained of Thlinkit ivory and wood carvings, clearly indicating the adoption by that tribe of Haida art designs.
Sitting in an ivory chair amid all this elegance and luxury was a lady in the very flower of her youth, of queenly dignity and majestic beauty.
Couches inlaid with ivory and decked with cushions surrounded three sides of a hollow square.
Look you," and unlocking an ivory cabinet, he took out a wax-covered tablet on which were inscribed the names of several other conspirators against his life, with the particulars of their plots.
Nevertheless the King commanded that search should be made, and there, sure enough, those that were sent found the horse of ebony and ivory standing stiff and motionless.
So coming to the pavilion in the garden he found the princess waiting within, and before the door the horse of ivory and ebony.
Some of the older senators and several priests scorned to seek a refuge from the fury of the barbarians, and took their seats quietly in ivory chairs in the market place or Forum at the foot of the Capitoline hill.
Part of this room was used for an altar and for the ivory and gold statue of the goddess Athena.
At that hour the old Moroccan cities look like the ivorycitadels in a Persian miniature, and the fat shopkeepers riding out to their vegetable-gardens like Princes sallying forth to rescue captive maidens.
There was no interest in pushing farther south, since the ivory and slave trade with the Soudan was carried on by way of Tripoli.
The beautiful shells called ivory shells, which originally constituted part of this genus, are now placed in the genus Ancillaria by authors.
So great is the demand, however, that this quantity, added to that sent by the elephant-hunters, is not large enough to make ivory cheap in trade or in manufacture.
The elephants slain in Africa and India in the course of a year could not furnish half the ivory used in the great markets of the world during that time.
The traders who search for mammoths' tusks around the Arctic coasts of Asia make every effort to send off, each year, at least fifty thousand pounds of fossil ivory to the west along the great caravan road.
Where ivory is abundant, chairs of state, and even thrones are made of it; and in Russia, in the palaces of the great, floors inlaid with ivory help to beautify the grand apartments.
There are the rubber districts, the gum copal districts, the food districts, and the districts where ivory is obtained.
On the right of the quadrangle stood the go-down, where the rubber and a small quantity of ivory was stored.
The rifle and the trap, at the instigation of the devouring Government that eats rubber and antelope, ivory and palm-oil, cassava and copal, has thinned out the herds and driven them away.
I have a report of his saying, 'There is no ivory to be got.
Japanese swords in solid ivory scabbards, swords of the old Samurai so keen that a touch of the edge would divide a suspended hair.
Yet {her brother} Pelops is said alone to have mourned for her as well; and after he had drawn his clothes from his shoulder towards his breast, he discovered the ivory on his left shoulder.
The Egyptians used them made of ivory and wood, and toothed on one side only; those of the Greeks had teeth on both sides.
Ivory was inserted there, in the place of the part that did not appear; and so by that means Pelops was made entire.
The furniture is painted in dull ivory with touches of gold and beryl and the bed cover is peacock blue.
But it was first brought into the Forum upon a bier inlaid with ivory and covered with rich tapestries, which was carried by men high in rank and office.
A notable projection from the ivory gate, 'Sed falsa ad coelum mittunt insomnia manes.
But through the ivory gate the shades send to the upper air apparitions that do but cheat us.
The snowbirds, with their satiny feet and ivory bills, dressed like gentlemen in lead-colored coats and white vests, to which you toss crumbs from the breakfast table every morning, are in this class.
The ivory of which these tusks are composed is so valuable that the African elephant has been most terribly persecuted, and in many districts where it was formerly plentiful it has disappeared altogether.
This tusk is often as much as seven or eight feet in length, and the ivory of which it is made is twisted round and round in a spiral from base to tip.
The ivory of which this weapon is made is of very fine quality.
Yet curious to say, he could not do anything without a small ivory scraper by his side, though never using it.
When he had finished I looked mechanically at the ivory keys.
The engineer slowly hoisted his long figure through the breast-high doorway, dragged his legs under him, then with extraordinary agility swung to the pier, his teeth shining like ivory in his black face.
An elegant trowel, having a richly carved ivory handle, and enclosed in a handsome mahogany case, was presented to and used by the Lord Bishop on the occasion.
