Ye offer him laurels, ye crown him with praises, Who falls in the fight with his face to the foe, And gratitude over his sepulcher raises The marbles eternal of national woe.
The horses of the frieze of the Elgin Marbles appear to live and move; to roll their eyes, to gallop, prance, and curvet; the veins of their faces and legs seem distended with circulation.
It may also be rolled into marbles and be garnished with parsley.
And in its peaceful hollow there lay Florence, the palace of art, a mediaeval jewel glistening there like a mosaic in white and terra cotta, with its great duomo in many-coloured marbles lording it over the lowlier piles.
The English emissaries appear to have been much struck by the magnificence of his palaces, then in all the splendor of novelty, and gleaming with marbles brought from Volubilis and Salé.
Francis Junius, born at Heidelberg in 1589, who had passed a large part of his life in England as librarian to that Howard Earl of Arundel who collected the marbles which go under his name at Oxford, as well as the MSS.
Arundel, Howard, Earl of, collector of Marblesand MSS.
Onyx marbles of local source are polished at Phoenix.
So I opened them still giddy for the excess of her embracing and pressing, and saw that the whole saloon was built of the finest marbles and alabasters, and all its furniture was of silk and brocade even to the cushions and mattresses.
It's wicked to play marblesfor keeps," said I impressively.
The other kids rolled their marbles from the curb.
Marbles belong to spring, to the first weeks after the frost is out of the ground.
If a marble went through an arch, the owner of the rake had to give the boy as many marbles as the number over the arch.
By its non-adhesion to foreign bodies, marbles and bronzes are preserved in it as in a case made to fit them, and exact moulds of the faces and limbs of statues are frequently found in this substance.
The mausoleum is circular, thirty-six feet in diameter, and incrusted with fine marbles in an elegant taste.
Us made our own marbles out of clay and baked 'em in de sun, and our baseballs and softballs was made out of rags.
I got to playin' marbles an' 'fore I knowed it, it wuz dinner time.
The people told me that there were many fine marblesunder the straw; and I saw (without being able to find any descent to them) several arches under ground, which perhaps, support the whole floor.
Then he found the marbles again, pocketed them as if nothing had happened, smiled, called, and hob-nobbed.
They left the brickwork naked, hoping for some chance fight to furnish them with marbles for it, and in 1385 they were able to secure those which had been prepared for the cathedral of Arezzo.
After I had paid the freightage of these said marbles the money received for this work came to an end.
About the transport for the marbles for the above-mentioned statue, so that no one shall know of it, meseems they should come by night and well covered up, so that they may not be seen.
I suppose you know that the workshop, with the carved marbles in, has tumbled to pieces; it is a great pity.
He studied the works of antique art and imitated the finish and softness of the Hellenic style: marbles of debased Greek workmanship abound to this day in the Roman collections.
After Michael Angelo had been dismissed from the work of the façade of San Lorenzo he appears to have remained quietly at Florence, possibly engaged upon the marbles for the Tomb of Julius II.
In the meantime the Pope was informed that in the mountains of Pietrasanta, in the Florentine territory, there were marbles as good and beautiful as at Carrara.
This array of marbles was made even more effective by the beautiful columns brought from older temples.
The whole effect is one of great richness and beauty, especially since time has mellowed its color, and softened without destroying the whiteness of its marbles (Fig.
The wood was painted to preserve it, and when stone began to be substituted, the architects, accustomed to bright effects, colored the marbles to look like wood.
The marbles and stone have been used to build other towns, which in their turn have been destroyed.
All that is variegated in marbles adorns the altars; all that is bewitching in paintings is transferred to mosaics.
I went very readily, for, besides the comfort of fingering the marbles in my pocket, the hedge-rows were full of young birds upon whom legitimate hostilities could be waged in passing.
I cried all that day, and didn't playmarbles for a whole week.
Variations galore will suggest themselves to the student who has made a study of these marbles from natural specimens.
As to material, white lead and zinc white will form the bulk of it, as it is used either as a base or by itself in all the marbles that will be described, with, of course, the exception of the black marbles.
The students should study the forms taken by marbles thoroughly as possible in order to store up in their memory the innumerable variations of forms of all the several sorts of marbles which they come across.
What is said relative to the imitation of marbles by ancient civilizations?
The clumps or blotches of variously colored component parts of the conglomerate are much more diversified than can usually be seen in marbles and according to the angle at which they are cut present an endless variation.
Describe how Italian pink and Italian scarlet marbles are imitated?
Truthfully speaking marbles are of lime formation, while granites and jaspers and many others are not.
These two divisions are the striated marbles, which includes the veined and serpentine marbles, and the conglomerate, which includes most of the onyxes and marbles which show but little veining.
These two marbles are bracketed together, as with the exception of the ground color and the reversing of the color used in the veining they are so much alike that the same description will do for each of them.
Onyxes differ from those stones which are known as marbles chiefly in that they are more transparent.
A minute later they are playing marbleswith undivided minds, and might be playing pitch and toss were they not afraid of a policeman coming round the corner.
Showing the effect of differently colored marbles arranged in carefully inequal masses.
The purple and fine-grained white marbles of the pilaster are entirely uninjured in surface by three hundred years' exposure.
Perhaps we should class in the same category Hawthorne's remark concerning the Elgin marbles in the British Museum, that "it would be well if they were converted into paving- stones.
His laugh was triumphant---- "Do you think I am going to let you?
She was as white as the whiteness in which she was clad, and there were purple shadows under her eyes.
His face was a white circle in the dark, but she could see the sparkle of his eyes.
There had been much to discourage him, but in the main if they strayed they came back.
You are trying to shut me out of your heart, Becky--and you are afraid I may try to--open the door.
I have something to tell you, Randy," Becky had said, and as in the days of their childhood the Bird Room seemed the place for confidences.
But to-day was not yesterday, and George was not the man of those dreams.
But it was not because of her slenderness and clear eyes and bronze hair that Becky held him, it was because of the force within her which baffled him.
Becky curled herself up in the Judge's big chair like a tired child.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: checkers; chess; game; lucidity; mind; reason; sanity; sense; soundness; sport; wit
