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waxing

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waxing
In a finished piece of marble intended for interior use, the filling of cavities with materials patterned and colored to match.


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Partly from its peculiar colour, partly from a superstition which represented it as feeling the influence of the deity whom it adorned, and growing and lessening in lustre with the waxing and waning of the moon, it first gained the name by which it continues to be known in India to this day--the name of THE MOONSTONE.
The eighth and the ninth, two days at least of the waxing month (41), are specially good for the works of man.
And as Clare was oppressed by the outward heats, so was he burdened inwardly by waxing fervour of passion for the soft and silent Tess.
 
 
 
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