Ivory Quotes

“Thy neck is as a tower of ivory.”

“His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.”

“Like two wands of ivory
Tipp’d with gold for awful kings.”

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“All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.”

“The king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.”

“And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.”

“As when some stately trappings are decreed
To grace a monarch on his bounding steed,
A nymph in Caria or Mæonia bred,
Stains the pure ivory with a lively red;
With equal lustre various colours vie,
The shining whiteness, and the Tyrian dye:
So great Atrides! show’d thy sacred blood,
As down thy snowy thigh distill’d the streaming flood.”