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Letter "I" » ivory
«Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme / Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, / Telling a tale not too importunate.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
beats, importunate, ivory, murmuring, rhyme, suffice
«His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.»
«And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.»
«For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.»
«For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
apes, at sea, Gold and Silver, Hiram, In the Navy, ivory, navy, peacocks, sea a, Three Kings
«And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: / The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, / And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.»
Author: Bible
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brass, cinnamon, frankincense, Gold and Silver, iron horse, ivory, merchandise, merchants, ointments, pearls, scarlet, silk
«Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.»
«An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.»
«King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.»
«Dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr.
| Keywords:
ivory
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