Sentence examples for as a marble from inspiring English sources

Like Luca, Andrea della Robbia was apparently trained as a marble sculptor.

She was as vivacious as a marble statue and as appealing as a mummy.

Another exhibit was freshwater pearl, as large as a marble, imbedded in a half shell.

As impeccably chiseled and hairless as a marble statue by Praxiteles, this leading body part is not merely decorative.

It is in the same proportion to the atom as a marble is to a football field.

LONDON — Palladium is as silvery white as a marble statue of Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and craft, whose name it shares.

This hypnotic corridor is today walked by streams of tourists heading for the Sistine Chapel, punctuated along its straight-as-a-ruler marble funnel by souvenir stalls.

Tie the rubber band into a small piece of cardboard which is as big as the 'base' of a marble.

She sleeps on a pool table, stretched out on the baize as if on a marble tomb, and eats in her truck, in a darkened parking lot, picking bits out of her food and dropping them out the window.

He struck me as almost a marble figure of a man who was busy, serious, and looked annoyed.

The musical scholar Moritz Hauptmann described the Mozart additions as "stucco ornaments on a marble temple".