He also purchased a chimera of polychrome clay; it brandished its mane of hair, and its sides resembled a pair of bellows.

Pompeii had been a polychrome city.

Their broad staircases were adorned with polychrome busts brought from the first excavations in Herculaneum and Pompeii.

The doctor recalled the departed beauties and the old covering of these colossal skeletons,the fine and compact coating of stucco which had closed the pores of the stone, giving it a superficial smoothness like marble,the vivid colors of its flutings and walls making the antique city a mass of polychrome monuments.

Soon after Undine's marriage they had abandoned their polychrome suite at the Stentorian, and since then their peregrinations had carried them through half the hotels of the metropolis.

Traversing a hot dazzle of polychrome tiles we reached another archway guarded by the chief eunuch, a towering black with the enamelled eyes of a basalt bust.

Then came the door of Santa Catalina, black and gold, with richly-carved polychrome foliage, mixed with lions and castles, and on the jambs two statues of prophets.