Marble

Marble

Marble is a non-foliated metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.

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Famous quotes containing the word marble:

    A Turkish bath—that marble paradise of sherbert and sodomy.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Let him have the marble monument, along with the well-assured and more enduring one in the hearts of those who love liberty, unselfishly, for all men.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    O would that we had met
    When I had my burning youth!
    But I grow old among dreams,
    A weather-worn, marble triton
    Among the streams.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)