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He was able to survive only after paying Sennacherib a vast fortune in gold, silver, jewels and ivory-inlaid furniture.
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Min watched him, rooting through the coats in the huge ivory-inlaid wardrobe.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 7: A Crown of Swords (1994) Adam Roberts 2010
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Adorned by an unfinished Gardner portrait, an elaborately gilded Spanish desk and an ivory-inlaid Italian cabinet, the room now does at least triple duty: as Ms. Hawley's office, a conference room and a reception area.
'Elitism for All' Julia M. Klein 2010
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On a little ivory-inlaid ebony table about ten feet away lay a knife, that was almost the exact duplicate of the one inside his shirt.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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Min watched him, rooting through the coats in the huge ivory-inlaid wardrobe.
Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Adorned by an unfinished Gardner portrait, an elaborately gilded Spanish desk and an ivory-inlaid Italian cabinet, the room now does at least triple duty: as Ms. Hawley's office, a conference room and a reception area.
'Elitism for All' Julia M. Klein 2010
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Adorned by an unfinished Gardner portrait, an elaborately gilded Spanish desk and an ivory-inlaid Italian cabinet, the room now does at least triple duty: as Ms. Hawley's office, a conference room and a reception area.
'Elitism for All' Julia M. Klein 2010
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Shez gestured to a twenty-five-inch flat-screen monitor on an ivory-inlaid table of exquisite Egyptian workmanship.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his war-like but still deferential cubs.
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Dr. Fu Ch'ing's private quarters were -- well, it was as if the room where we talked reached impossibly vast, with lacquered pillars, gilt carvings, ivory-inlaid ebony furniture, silken hangings, scrolls of beautiful art inscribed with poems, and yet was a secret niche for gods and sorcerers to whisper in.
Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999
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