statue-stone

Updated: June 10, 2025

"Shining eyes, like antique jewels set in Parian statue-stone," whose wells are so dark and deep, that you are cheated into the belief that a glorious soul looks out of them. Once, by an unforeseen chance, I beheld the Circassian form, in its most perfect development.

Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain