This marmoreal repose of the once active man symbolises for our imagination the state into which he passed four centuries ago, but in which, according to the creed, he still abides, reserved for judgment and re-incarnation.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
One was Basil, who, in the instant after alighting there, had fallen into an attitude of marmoreal ease as if he had been there from boyhood; he was smoking a cigar with a slow pleasure.
"The Club of Queer Trades"
G. K. Chesterton
I beg your pardon,' he ended suddenly, resuming marmoreal attitude in his chair.
"Trent's Last Case The Woman in Black"
E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley