Sentence examples for ivory on from inspiring English sources

For a Democratic Party official who drove him home on a winter night, Scagel created a knife with a handle plated in ivory on one side and pink mother of pearl on the other.

The seizure is one of the largest American seizures of elephant ivory on record, the United States attorney's office said.

Europe is the biggest legal exporter of ivory on earth.

A pound of ivory on the streets of Beijing, he says, now goes for $1,000.

The little stubs of ivory on the dead calves had been left untouched.

He was wearing his wedding ring, a black diamond set in ivory, on his right hand.

They are also able to scent weapons and even smell ivory on a person.

When the sofa bed's original ivory-on-beige damask slipcover grew tattered and its cushions grew mushy, she tried to buttress them with throw pillows.

One of their earliest films, Shakespeare Wallah, which was made in 1965 and featured the young Felicity Kendal and the actress and chef Madhur Jaffrey, was co-written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the author who has since worked with Merchant-Ivory on many screenplays, adapting both EM Forster's Howards End and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day.

Try light yellow, soothing soft blue or the no-fail-ivory on walls.

PAGE A18 Film Producer Is Dead Ismail Merchant, who collaborated with James Ivory on visually sumptuous and literate tales like "Howards End," was 68.