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The working of alabaster in Egypt. Alabaster is used mainly for ornamental carvings, and though normally translucent, can be given an opaque, marblelike appearance by heat treatment.

Naturally occurring fine-grained white or light-coloured translucent form of gypsum, often streaked or mottled. A soft material, it is easily carved, but seldom used for outdoor sculpture.

Alabaster

Town in Shelby County, central Alabama, USA; population (1990) 14,700. It is situated 31 km/19 mi south of Birmingham, Alabama. Formerly a small agricultural and limestone shipping community, it has grown quickly since the 1970s as a Birmingham suburb.
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Indeed, had I realised how superbly impressive they were going to be, I think I must have declined the adventure altogether,--for, robed in lustrous ivory-white linen were those figures of undress marble, the wealth of their glorious bodies pressing out into bosoms magnificent as magnolias (nobler lines and curves Greece herself has never known), towering in throats of fluted alabaster, and flowering in coiffures of imperial gold.
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Then he bathed in an alabaster pool and brushed his shaggy hair and whiskers the wrong way to make them still more shaggy.
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Her beauty was illumined by the awakened soul within, as some rosy lamp might shine through a flawless vase of alabaster.
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