Examples of using "Marfim" in a sentence and their english translations:
I see a cup made of shining ivory.
His teeth are white like a pearl.
- His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
- His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.
Elephants were killed for their ivory.
Ivory Coast is the world's biggest cocoa producer.
So spake the seer, and shipward bids his friends / rich gifts convey, and store them in the hold. / Gold, silver plate, carved ivory he sends, / with massive caldrons of Dodona's mould; / a coat of mail, with triple chain of gold, / and shining helm, with cone and flowing crest, / the arms of Pyrrhus, glorious to behold.
And bathed in sunshine stood the chief, endowed / with shape and features most divinely bright. / For graceful tresses and the purple light / of youth did Venus in her child unfold, / and sprightly lustre breathed upon his sight, / beauteous as ivory, or when artists mould / silver or Parian stone, enchased in yellow gold.