On an enormous banquet table in the center were goblets of striped sardonyx and white alabaster, doubly pretty in the sun.

From Egypt came veined white alabaster, amethyst, carnelian, and possibly the eggs and plumes of ostriches.

Aye, sculpted in whitest alabaster to emphasize his purity.

The walls were of white alabaster, set here and there with blue and green tiles.

The paving we were on now looked like smooth, white alabaster which, although it appeared solid, felt springy underfoot.

He died in 1581 and was buried at Bigby, Lincolnshire, in a tomb of white alabaster.

The softness of the white alabaster, the antithesis of the harsh granite, embraces the rock.

Four years later, John Hammer agreed, for 400 silver riksdaler, to paint the king's throne in white alabaster and gold.

All the monuments were originally brightly coloured, but the colour has been lost, leaving the white alabaster.

The facture is highly refined; the whites of his eyes are inlays of white alabaster.