marble

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Lee Higginson Corp., offshoot of the old firm that banked on Ivar Kreuger, advertised: "MURALS, MARBLE, MOSAIC�you are cordially invited to visit our office."

From Time Magazine Archive

Any limestone which is sufficiently hard to take a fine polish is called MARBLE.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

There's STONE, of the Journal of Commerce; WOOD, of the News; MARBLE, of the World; and BRICK, of the Democrat.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870 by Various

Granny MARBLE, to the extreme left of the picture, clenches her fists over the pungent suds, and looks fight at Granny JONES, of the Times.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 by Various