Marmorean

Now that I know his end, I see him creating, to use a favourite adjective of his, ‘marmorean’ verse, and believing the most terrible doctrines to keep down his own turbulence. ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)

Burton still sleep in sepulchral pomp in their marmorean Arab Tent at Mortlake. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Others again, no less colossal, were disposed upon the steps of a monumental staircase which, by their decorative presence and marmorean immobility, was made worthy to be named, like that god-crowned ascent in the Palace of the Doges, the ❋ Unknown (2003)

But, if we agree to put Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and a few others on marmorean pedestals in a special Hall of Fame (and this is a compromise on my part, at any rate, as I consider much of the music written by even these men to be below any moderately high standard), what about the rest? ❋ Carl Van Vechten (1922)

Men had dreamed that there is a witch there, walking alone through the cold courts and corridors of marmorean palaces, fearfully beautiful and still for all her fourscore centuries, singing the second oldest song, which was taught her by the sea, shedding tears for loneliness from eyes that would madden armies, yet will she not call her dragons home -- Carcassonne is terribly guarded. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)

No revolution, so far as we are aware, has distracted modern England, and Sir Richard and Lady Burton still sleep in sepulchral pomp in their marmorean Arab Tent at Mortlake. ❋ Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 (1906)

This must have been at the hours when we were left discreetly to our own fortitude, through our aunt's availing herself of the relative proximity to go and shop at Stewart's and then come back for us; the ladies 'great shop, vast, marmorean, plate-glassy and notoriously fatal to the female nerve (we ourselves had wearily trailed through it, hanging on the skirts, very literally, of indecision) which bravely waylaid custom on the Broadway corner of Chambers Street. ❋ Henry James (1879)