At eighty she kept the hawk-nosed, ivorine face of the old Elamite nobility; the pure Persian strain, unmixed with Median. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Aphrodite ivorine, existed only in the radiant imaginations of her carefully-arranged acquaintances. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with the Fan] Reference
He had invested several thousands of pounds -- in Shiel's name -- in enamel-ivorine, the new stuff for stopping teeth, which looks exactly like part of the teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Sorcery Club] Reference
Charmian set her martini and Jeff’s beer on ivorine coasters so as not to mar the Italianate table in front of the couch. From Wordnik.com. [Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime] Reference
Better to seek solace in choregraphic harmonies, in the rhythm of gracious motion and of perfect melody, than hearken to the discords of the wild orchestra of storms; -- wiser to admire the grace of Parisian toilets, the eddy of trailing robes with its fairy-foam of lace, the ivorine loveliness of glossy shoulders and jewelled throats, the glimmering of satin-slippered feet, -- than to watch the raging of the flood without, or the flying of the wrack. From Wordnik.com. [Chita: a Memory of Last Island] Reference
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