In 1229 it was held by the family of Alabaster.

And alabaster is a stone through which light can pass.

He looked at her, as though she were yet the alabaster woman, then shrugged.

Her white alabaster body was dripping blood from the eyes.

He had not seen anyone with a pale white face or alabaster skin.

The stone of the temple was alabaster, and very white.

"I think I'm going to take the one in alabaster.

The cities spread out below were not exactly made of alabaster.

Why alabaster, by the way, rather than marble or some other stone?

The community has been annexed by the city of Alabaster.

You can just make out the alabaster jars in the niche.

In her arms was an infant with flesh like alabaster.

He looked at the row of alabaster jars on the table across the room.

This is where the popularity of the pale alabaster face came from.

There was not even a crack in the smooth alabaster surface.

Her skin was like alabaster, though flushed now from delight and cold.

A beautiful little thing in alabaster and jade without a mark on it.

IN the right winter light it is soft and glowing, almost like alabaster.

Walls of alabaster, giving forth a living, almost fluid light.

What flesh Mark could see was the colour of alabaster.

She is 89 now, a widow with alabaster hair and skin like parchment.

The town is known for its marble and alabaster quarries.

So some of the ancient alabaster is identical to the modern stone.

It was the only splash of color on the white, silver, and alabaster fields.

There was a greenish light in the sky with a surface like alabaster.

There was no table in the centre under the alabasterine ceiling light, only a small square of stained carpet with a futurist design in contrasting browns.