"Marbly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... snakes convolving round the winged and graceful head: the brows contracted with horror and pain; but every feature is chiselled into the most regular and faultless perfection; and amid the gorgon terrors, there rests a marbly, fixed, supernatural grace, which, without reminding us for a moment of common life or nature, stands before us a presence, a power, ...
— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson |
