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in Burmah, has marble quarries of which idols are made, and only priests are allowed to trade there. (Symes, vol. ii. p. 376.)
“As on Ava’s snore,
Where none but priests are privileged to trade
In that best marble of which gods are made.”
T. Moore: Lalla Rookh, part 1.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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