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Literary notes about ivory (AI summary)

Ivory is often deployed in literature as both a literal material and a powerful symbol of refined beauty and antiquity. Its presence ranges from evoking opulent artifacts—as in carved ornaments and stately furnishings—to highlighting delicate human features, where it suggests a luminous, almost otherworldly quality in skin or teeth [1, 2]. Authorial voices frequently imbue objects made of ivory with hints of classical grandeur and mysterious allure, whether describing a mythic "ivory shoulder" that recalls heroic pasts [3] or setting an elegant, almost surreal scene with "ivory tables" that glow with an ethereal light [4]. In this way, ivory transcends its physical substance to convey both material luxury and the timeless elegance celebrated throughout literary history.
  1. My hair is of midnight darkness and my skin is a clear ivory pallor.
    — from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
  2. Her mouth, the vermilion of her lips, and her ivory teeth were all perfect.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  3. or by whom Hath not the tale been told of Hylas young, Latonian Delos and Hippodame, And Pelops for his ivory shoulder famed, Keen charioteer?
    — from The Georgics by Virgil
  4. Light torches, bring forth the ivory tables, and the tables of jasper.
    — from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

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