Adjective : skin of marmoreal smoothness. From Dictionary.com.
In the dim light, his face was marmoreal, beyond mortal concerns. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
He knew Florence in its marmoreal smoothness and in its gritty and cobbled roughness. From Wordnik.com. [Flush: a biography] Reference
Scooters carried people across the wide marmoreal mall of androb-directed traffic to the clearing pavilion. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
He drew the sheet over the marmoreal face, and turned to the ranks that were forming to hold the bolted doors. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Two meters tall, wide-shouldered, supple; ash-blond hair, silver-blue eyes, marmoreal skin on which no beard would ever grow. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
The placement of her glittering black eyes, close by the bridge of her nose, accentuated the expanse of her marmoreal cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Araminta Station]
John Updike described her writing as marmoreal and elegant – thus pasted in the back of book “That Mighty Sculptor, Time”. From Wordnik.com. [Marguerite Yourcenar – Madame Bibliotheque] Reference
At dawn the next morning a marmoreal Oberleutnant and his men overran a somnolent camp consisting of a field kitchen and a company of muleteers. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
The marmoreal control of perfect beauty held perfectly broke then; Metrobius looked at Sulla with perfect love, and smilingly extended his arms. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
It does Mr. Chernow no disservice to regard his biography as a culmination of a long biographical tradition that has divested Washington of his marmoreal armor. From Wordnik.com. [O Captain, Our Captain] Reference
Eliza served a cold supper out of a tin — one of the more depressing so-called lunch loaves, with a marmoreal corn-flour shape and some rather grey apple to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Wall]
Paving with fire the sky and the marmoreal floods. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
The soul's marmoreal calmness: Grief should be, 10. From Wordnik.com. [Sorrow] Reference
Yet the session had much the same feel, as marmoreal tributes to the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to For god's sake, think of the children] Reference
Schlink's intelligent book has been frozen in marmoreal stillness and hoisted onto a pedestal. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
Every thing humiliates but hatred, and indifference with its marmoreal pulse, its staring eyes, and its measured steps. From Wordnik.com. [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference
Yet the session had much the same feel, as marmoreal tributes to the today brought a reduction in the county's alert status. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to The great survivor] Reference
Open those pearly gates, come back with me to my former marmoreal splendor: the lily-pad I escaped that was never my passion. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
I placed my hand on the antique marble, its surface pitted with the graffiti of centuries, its veins as marmoreal as fossilised time. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Attired in ducal robes, they lie in state; and the sculptor has carved the lashes on their eyelids heavy with death's marmoreal sleep. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
Attired in ducal robes, they lie in state; and the sculptor has carved the lashes on their eyelids, heavy with death's marmoreal sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference
Then Manuel sent a gold-crested wren into Provence: it entered through an upper window of the King's marmoreal palace, and went into the. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Earth] Reference
There seem to be two extreme and opposed styles of writing: the liquid style that flows, and the bronze or marmoreal style that is moulded or carved. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions and Comments] Reference
Yet I am also ruthless, marmoreal. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
Amid some dim marmoreal place. From Wordnik.com. [The Five Books of Youth] Reference
Thy soul's marmoreal calmness. From Wordnik.com. [Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul] Reference
Mourn your marmoreal innocency?. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
The marmoreal Alison was right. From Wordnik.com. [The Highwayman] Reference
And terrace and marmoreal spire. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of William Watson] Reference
The souls marmoreal calmness. From Wordnik.com. [Sorrow] Reference
O'er its marmoreal depth -- one moment seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt of Islam] Reference
O'er its marmoreal depth: -- one moment seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
The soul's marmoreal calmness: Grief shall be. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasures of Life] Reference
With marmoreal innocency. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
The voice I heard, marmoreal, strange, remote. From Wordnik.com. [A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry] Reference
O’er its marmoreal depth: — one moment seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
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