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Numidian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to ancient Numidia or its people or culture.





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"Numidian" Quotes from Famous Books



... ready soon; and when the first litters began to appear before the main gate, both entered the side portico from which were visible the chief entrance, the interior galleries, and the courtyard surrounded by a colonnade of Numidian marble. ...
— Quo Vadis - A Narrative of the Time of Nero • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... leading into a great and spacious hall. Between every tower in the midst of the said body of building there was a pair of winding, such as we now call lantern stairs, whereof the steps were part of porphyry, which is a dark red marble spotted with white, part of Numidian stone, which is a kind of yellowishly-streaked marble upon various colours, and part of serpentine marble, with light spots on a dark green ground, each of those steps being two-and-twenty foot in length and three fingers thick, and the just number of twelve betwixt every ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... fair, Till slowly charged with thunder they display Terror to earth, and tempest to the air, Had held till now her soft and milky way; But overwrought with Passion and Despair, The fire burst forth from her Numidian veins, Even as the Simoom[244] sweeps the ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron


Words linked to "Numidian" :   denizen, indweller, dweller, inhabitant, Numidia, habitant


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