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... marbles told , in gilded char- acters , the virtues of the dead ; no flowery - fringed gravel- walks wound from murmuring waterfalls and rippling foun- tains to crystal lakes , where trailing willows threw their flickering shadows over ...
... marbles told , in gilded char- acters , the virtues of the dead ; no flowery - fringed gravel- walks wound from murmuring waterfalls and rippling foun- tains to crystal lakes , where trailing willows threw their flickering shadows over ...
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... marble steps , she saw that the house was very large and handsome . " Bring her into the room next to mine , " said Mrs. Mur- ray , leading the way . Edna was soon undressed and placed within the snowy sheets of a heavily - carved ...
... marble steps , she saw that the house was very large and handsome . " Bring her into the room next to mine , " said Mrs. Mur- ray , leading the way . Edna was soon undressed and placed within the snowy sheets of a heavily - carved ...
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... marble steps out on the terrace , whence two more steps showed the be- ginning of a serpentine gravel walk winding down to an octagonal hot - house , surmounted by a richly carved pagoda- roof . Two sentinel statues — a Bacchus and ...
... marble steps out on the terrace , whence two more steps showed the be- ginning of a serpentine gravel walk winding down to an octagonal hot - house , surmounted by a richly carved pagoda- roof . Two sentinel statues — a Bacchus and ...
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... marble , silver , rosewood , ebony , mosaics , satin , velvet — naught that the most fas- < idious and cultivated taste or dilettanteism could suggest , or lavish expenditure supply , was wanting ; while the elabor- ate and beautiful ...
... marble , silver , rosewood , ebony , mosaics , satin , velvet — naught that the most fas- < idious and cultivated taste or dilettanteism could suggest , or lavish expenditure supply , was wanting ; while the elabor- ate and beautiful ...
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... marble , inlaid with red onyx and lapis lazuli , which formed a miniature zodiac similar to that at Den- derah , while in the middle of this table sat a small Murano hour - glass , filled with sand from the dreary valley of El Ghor . A ...
... marble , inlaid with red onyx and lapis lazuli , which formed a miniature zodiac similar to that at Den- derah , while in the middle of this table sat a small Murano hour - glass , filled with sand from the dreary valley of El Ghor . A ...
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