. This
Marble Is here placed by their surviving Shipmates.
'When you came in, I was just wondering whether this figure here had not accidentally got loosened from the wall behind it.' He laid his hand on the
marble forehead, for the third time.
Pretty soon a bolt was cautiously withdrawn and the
marble door swung slowly open.
But it occurred to him that he might as well have the
marble he had just thrown away, and therefore he went and made a patient search for it.
In this Chapel is a
marble chest, in which, they told us, were the ashes of St.
"The Liquid of Petrifaction has accidentally fallen upon my dear wife and Unc Nunkie and turned them into
marble," he sadly replied.
There was the quarry of perfect
marble on Hafler's quarter section.
A central aisle led from the doorway the full length of the great hall, terminating at the steps of a
marble dais upon which a man sat in a great throne-chair.
It was upon the
marble table that the mystery was to be enacted, as usual.
And yet, as she saw him coming across the
marble floor of the audience chamber of Tario of Lothar, his fine eyes filled with apprehension for her safety, his splendid figure personifying all that is finest in the fighting men of martial Mars, she could not believe that any faintest trace of perfidy lurked beneath so glorious an exterior.
No sooner had they clambered up the cliff, than they discerned the tall
marble towers of the palace, ascending, as white as snow, out of the lovely green shadow of the trees which surrounded it.
"I don't want to be a
marble statue!" he protested.