parian

The road over which we rolled was white and lustrous as parian marble, and adorned on either side with most rare and beautiful forms of foliage; ever and anon we passed gay cavalcades and bands of spirits, who were evidently, from their festal garments, and the bright emanations which they diffused through the air, bound for some harmonial gathering on one of the numerous islands which dot the sparkling river

Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn

_Item_: It is of great importance that neither consent nor permission be given to any Sangleys to enjoy or exercise any occupation whatever, outside of the parian and the public place assigned to them and to the service of the state.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

He looked wistfully to the top of the bank at the woman who stood there, and his teeth, which were quite unimpaired, showed like parian from his parted lips.

The Return of the Native 1878

Mother's pretty, chaste little parian marble pitcher broken, I use it to put violets in, and day before yesterday I gathered a large and beautiful bunch and filled it with them, last night the water froze into a solid mass and split the pitcher into three pieces all held together by the ice, the same happened to my little vase, only it was worse broken.

Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865. 1863

No monument of the whitest parian marble could shed such honor on the memory of a venerated father and mother as this tribute from an affectionate, appreciative child:

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

Not stiff baskets and made-up bouquets, but cut flowers in every sort of dish and arrangement for which there was room; from the low narrow border of violets and rosebuds which fenced off the plates, to parian shells and fairy glasses and a bewildering pyramid in the centre.

The Gold of Chickaree Susan Warner 1852

"parian marble": The island of Paros was famous for its white marble (OED).

Sappho and Phaon Agnes Mary Frances 1796

"You, who know everything, my officer, must at least have heard of the peerless Iza, the original of the most beautiful statue which -- reproduced in the precious and the mean metals, in clay, in parian, in plaster -- made the round of the civilized world?

The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859