“ivory”
“Even ivory towers need central heating.”
“Then I have an ivory chair high to sit upon, Almost like my father's chair, which is an ivory throne; There I sit uplift and upright, there I sit alone.”
“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
“Her ivory hands on the ivory keysStrayed in a fitful fantasy,Like the silver gleam when the poplar treesRustle their pale leaves listlessly,Or the drifting foam of a restless seaWhen the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.”
“The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.”