She flung them out of her hand upon the marble floor.

The Senator's firm step resounded on the marble floor; they had scant time to recover themselves; but his eyes fell at once upon the magnificent goblet, and there was pleasure in his stern face.

She groveled on the marble floor, And kissed the dead child o'er and o'er.

Do you know that I have a big bathroom of my own, with a marble floor, and a sitting-room so beautiful that I am afraid almost to look into it.

Some of the high officials came to dinner, and we were waited on by black servants in state liveries and bare feet, who moved noiselessly over the marble floor.

A weakness overtook me, and I lay for many dreamless hours naked on the marble floor. 'Does the fool think to hide ought from my eyes?

I believe you will find that what has really occurred is this: either yesterday, or the day before, Sir Jocelin was found by his servantI imagine he had a servant, though no mention is made of anylying on the marble floor of his chamber, dead.

I turned quickly, and sent the jet of light darting across and across the rear end of the Chapel; then on each side of me, before and behind, up at the roof and down at the marble floor, but nowhere was there any visible thing to put me in fear, not a thing that need have set my flesh thrilling; just the quiet Chapel, cold, and eternally silent.

The truth is, that the Grand Duchess one day getting out of her sedan-chair, slipped upon the polished marble floor, and, being again near her confinement, a miscarriage resulted, from which she never recovered.

There are those who know tint he was strangled by one of those wretches, that a grave was dug for him under the marble floor of his zenana, a grave in which his bones were found less than a year ago, in my presence, and fitly entombed at my bidding.

Kneeling on the marble floor, he removed a golden shield, and showed us the hole in the rock of Calvary, where the cross was planted.

He went down into the large hall where the gentlemen generally congregate; and there, in great distress of mind, he paced up and down the marble floor, exchanging nothing but the briefest salutations and answers with the acquaintances he occasionally encountered.

The polished marble floor, the dressers with glass doors like a bookcase, to keep the least particle of dust from the bright-polished utensils of brass and copper.

But in his frenzy he answered her with brutal words, and lifted up his cruel arm and struck her, with that heaviness, that she tottered on the marble floor.

One young dragoon in this sober dress walked into our hotel, trailing the clinking steel scabbard of his sabre across the marble floor of the vestibule with a warlike rattle which reminded me of the Austrian officers whom I used to see, yes, and hear, stalking about the cafe's of Florence.

The only people who ever go to Fattehpur Sikri are tourists, and they take their own bedding and spread it on the marble floor.

She sped across the marble floor of the great tapestry hall as a little, furry wild animal darts across an open space in the woods.

Sometimes they dance, which with them is a slow undulating movement, suited to a marble floor and a thermometer at eighty degrees.

We could sit by the waters of Laleham, and sing with the muse of Grongar: Be full ye courts, be great who will; Search for peace with all your skill; Open wide the lofty door, Seek her on the marble floor; In vain you search, she is not there; In vain you search the domes of care!

A feeling of solemn awe comes over one as he steps with a hushed tread along the colored marble floor, and measures the massive columns till they blend with the gorgeous arches above.

Nothing, in short, but plumed hats sweeping the marble floor, flexile forms bending to the earth, and lips wreathed in smiles, was to be seen in the kingly hall in which Henri IV had loved to discuss grave topics with his sturdy minister, the Duc de Sully, and which Marie de Medicis, in her day of pride and power, had enriched with the glorious productions of her immortal protégé, Rubens the painter-prince, as she was wont to call him.

We look round, and behold one long room with marble floor, with two large doors, not windows, opening in front upon the piazza and the street, and other openings into a large court behind, surrounded by small, dark bedrooms.

There were two or three open valises on the marble floor, which latter, however, seemed to have been lately swept.

He gnawed his fingers until the blood came, and a crimson drop fell upon the marble floor.

the stranger with outstretchèd head Springs at his face one soft and sudden stride, And from his hand the deadly cup hath sped, Dashed to the ground, and all it's seeded store Runs out like blood upon the marble floor.