It is true that, differing from our great masters, Flaubert has not taken the trouble to describe the alabaster of her bare arms, throat, etc.

From slate it grew to graniteto marbleto alabaster, with painted cherubs and a coat of arms.

The attendants at his bath would polish his epidermis, for his satisfaction, until it resembled alabaster or marble.

The struggle is over; andin the morning the sun glints coldly over a new landscape of gently undulating alabaster.