alabaster's Usage Examples:

There are also many quarries of rock-salt, gypsum, lime and some of marble, alabaster, soapstone, 'c.

Vitale, is made of thin slabs of alabaster, behind which lamps were intended to be placed.

The "cascades" are wonderful formations like foaming cataracts caught in mid-air and transformed into milk-white or amber alabaster.

For alabaster the principal quarry was that of Hanub in the desert 10 m.

The next time she opened her eyes, sunshine filtered through alabaster blinds on a hospital window.

Below the mosaics the walls and arches are covered with rare marbles, porphyries and alabaster from ancient columns sawn into slices and so arranged in broad bands as to produce a rich gamut of colour.

The men around her broke away, the two with dark hair joining A'Ran's opponent while the alabaster giant joined Ne'Rin.

These elegant beauties are often made of ceramic or alabaster glass and feature curvy profiles which will add a little femininity without too much frill.

The altar is a board on four wooden pillars having upon it a small slab (tabut) of alabaster, marble, or shittim wood, which forms its essential part.

The sarcophagus and its contents had been removed by early plunderers of the tomb, all that was left being some broken alabaster vases, pottery and charcoal.

Its principal ornament is the alabaster altar, by J.

An effigy of the Madonna and the Infant Savior fashioned from white alabaster seen on a corbel on the east wall of the church.

Ornaments are manufactured by the inhabitants from alabaster and spar; and excellent lime is burned at the quarries near Poole's Hole.

Synonyms:

gypsum,

Antonyms:

integrated, full,