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...sculpture of alabaster, clear as amber and delicate as ivory — sculpture of palm leaves and lilies, grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering...together into an endless net-work of buds and plumes. And then he described the solemn forms of the sculptured angels, robed to the feet, and leaning to each...

...treasure heap of gold and opal and mother of pearl. He said, underneath it was hollowed into five great porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...clear as amber and delicate as ivory — sculpture of palm leaves and lilies, grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,...

...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves...

...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...as ivory — sculpture fantastic and involved, of palm-leaves and lilies, and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches,...

...seems, partly cf gold, and partly of opal and mother of pearl, hollowed beneath into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves...

...seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-ofpearl, hollowed benesth into five great vaulted porches, ceiled with fair mosaic, and beset with sculpture...sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves...

...entered more deeply than any other writer into the spirit of Venetian architecture. He speaks of its sculpture, fantastic and involved, of palm leaves...and grapes and pomegranates, and birds clinging and flutter ing among the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes ; and...