Sentence examples for a cut stone from inspiring English sources

He became obsessed with the fact that a flaw could be reflected many times in a cut stone — creating an optical illusion similar to a double-exposure photograph.

Carvers, as the name suggests, take a cut stone and carve it into flowers, foliage, birds or animals, human figures or more abstract designs.

Irregular in plan and now in ruins, it comprises a partially roughcast rendered rubble limestone enclosing wall with a cut stone segmental-headed entrance to the east and is situated to the south of the River Shannon, adjacent to the bridge.

A permanent jail was not constructed until 1832 when a cut-stone design was completed on one of the two squares created in 1816, Prince's Square.

Divided into three bays on the front and six bays on each side, it sits on a foundation of cut stone with a stone water table and a basement.

Everiss scoured council stores and yards to source materials, including reclaimed stone, a gateway from a derelict mill, timbers from a lock gate, and cut stone from a demolished church.

At the back of the nearby cave water can be drawn, coming presumably from this source, and on the opposite side of the hill there are two springs, one of them enlarged in antiquity into a rectangular pool 1.9 m by 1.3 m with a border of cut stone.

It's with this architect that Braud is pursuing his initiative to train as many locals as possible in stone-cutting – a project of particular importance in Aleppo, a city constructed of 80percentt cut stone and located directly atop a limestone base.

Above a ground floor of deeply cut stone blocks, two additional stories were crowned by a steep mansard roof with a central dormer that originally held an illuminated clock.

It centres on an inclined rock mass with a small grotto; walls of cut stone fill in some of its irregular features.

The cut of the stone also plays a part: A princess-cut stone has one prong at each of its four corners.