There was almost a note of pleading in his voice, but no sign of it in his hard blue eyes like shiny marbles in the dark of his face.

The black legs are bare, and through rents in sleeves and breeches, the skin, of shiny black marble, shows.

Inside, the shiny black marble of a new concierge desk reflects the new wallpaper and wall mirrors in the lobby.

The grandly rebuilt Heydar Әliyev Museum is a veritable modern palace of shiny marble.

But the brick pillars of the gate, subtly striped with an exquisitely shiny black marble, hint of the grandeur demanded of the foundry.

Yet the ring wasn't solid; it was composed of millions upon millions of particles, like all the shiny bright marbles in the universe had gathered themselves together here.

BurJuman has one of the highest concentrations of high-end labels and an easy-to-navigate floor plan with wide expanses of shiny marble.

She glanced up to see his blue eyes, like shiny marbles, ready to pop out of his head.

Facing the empty corridor, she thought it suddenly looked a thousand miles long, the sheet of water like shiny black marble that stretched on endlessly.

But if he had the face of fat cherub, his eyes were those of a Donoor rat: like shiny black marbles.