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porphyry
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Definition:a hard igneous rock consisting of large crystals in a fine-grained matrixfrom Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
photo: By Nino Barbieri, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1697833
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A floor of polished syenite reflected the splendour of the lamps, and afforded a base for red granite sphinxes and dark purple images in porphyry of the cat-faced goddess Pasht, whose form I knew so well at the Louvre and the British Museum.
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The paintings—the paintings! O luxury! O love!—who, gazing on those forbidden beauties, shall have eyes for the dainty devices of the golden frames that besprinkled, like stars, the hyacinth and the porphyry walls?
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: The Duc de L'Omelette (1832)
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