"It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white."

"Her bosom gleams, her neck is marbly bright, And white as silvery Thetis’ are her toes:"

"Sir Thopas wex a doghty swayn, Whyt was his face as payndemayn, His lippès rede as rose; His rode is lyk scarlet in g…"

"Fair as an Ivory Column’s tow’ring Height, Her lofty Neck advances to the Sight."

"Her cheeks were rosy, red and white, Her e’en were bonnie blue, Her looks were like Aurora bright, Her lips like drop…"

"His plump white arms and shoulders, enough white For Venus’ pearly bite;"

"The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed,…"

"The ivory body of that rare young slave with his pomegranate mouth!"

"Her lithe figure shimmered ivory beneath the moon."

"Before him, swaying like a sapling in the wind, stood a woman. Her body was like ivory to his dazed gaze, and save fo…"