The table is made of 'broken' marble, patterns of cream and deep brown wrenched by subterranean forces into new, contorted shapes.

It was hard as marble, rough and broken, and Lothar knew that it would hold no sign.

He picked up a sharp shard of broken marble; it had an edge like an axe-blade.

Basil stepped over chunks of broken marble that had once been a pillar.

The broken marble was inside.

And the mare moved in without urging, her hoofs ringing on the broken marble as she came to join them.

As the broken marble settled under me I clutched it gasping and trembling.

Dust rose into the air, the dust of broken marble mixing with the dust of long-dead lives.

It usually cheaper to repair broken marble than to replace it with something new, he added.

Near by was the sacking that had clothed the image; but there were no fragments of broken marble such as they had thought to see.