Quotes about Ivory
Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
- 1 Kings 10:18
For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- 1 Kings 10:22
Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 9:17
For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
- 2 Chronicles 9:21
All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
- Psalm 45:8
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
- Song of Solomon 5:14
Of oaks from Bashan they made your oars; of wood from the coasts of Cyprus they made your deck, inlaid with ivory.
- Ezekiel 27:6
The men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.
- Ezekiel 27:15
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers' breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine.
- Virginia Woolf
I'm merely exploring souls & cities From the vantage point Of my ivory tower built, Built with the assistance of Opium That's enough, isnt it?
- Jack Kerouac
Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over dented like geological sones, with the peculiar mark of his walk. Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see still stranger footprints--the footprints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.
- Herman Melville
Once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
- Anonymous