Sentence examples for are of stone from inspiring English sources

The walls are of stone, as rough as excavation.

The houses are of stone, and the sunlight and shade give the walls and roofs a variegated color which I well remember..

The spaces between the ribs and tie rings are spanned by the inner and outer shells, which are of stone for the first 7.1 metres (23 feet) and brick above.

The earliest surviving examples, however, are of stone coffering, done by the ancient Greeks and Romans; the Propylaea in Athens, for example, has a stone-coffered ceiling that still shows traces of painted decoration.

All the surviving crosses are of stone, but there are indications that large numbers of wooden crosses may also have existed.

Most of the buildings on Mackinac Island are built of wood, a few are of stone, and most have clapboard siding.

Houses were of stone or adobe mud.

The splendid entrance, ornate if crumbling, is of stone.

The wall was to be of stone three cubits thick and four cubits high.

The earliest man-made objects were of stone, wood, bone, and earth.

The earlier towns consisted of half-timbered buildings; before ad 100 only public buildings seem to have been of stone.