Sentence examples for behind the marble from inspiring English sources

"Everybody sort of ducked and got behind the marble pillars," he said.

He fondly remembers the three years he worked behind the marble counter three-quarters of a lifetime ago.

The original in Silver Lake remains my favorite — deep arches and Spanish tiles, preternaturally talented baristas working behind the marble counter.

On Mr. Stone's General Motors Building, 767 Fifth Avenue: "Behind the marble cladding and bay windows, architecture, like the proverbial thin man in the fat man's body, is signaling wildly to get out".

Behind the marble facade of its neoclassical fortress on Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange has been the hub of financial activity in Lower Manhattan for more than a century.

At this point, we expect the doorbell to ring and schadenfreude to leap out from behind the marble fountain before barging past us and sniggering at the gold toilet.

Children play in the concrete courtyard behind the marble-floored lobby.

Can I get you a glass of wine?" The waiters moved briskly behind the marble-topped bar, neatly attired in white shirts, aprons, and plaid bow ties.

The night I was there, the restaurant's new owner, the chef Richard Corrigan, was behind the marble-topped bar, one hand swathed in bandages and sealed beneath half a transparent plastic glove to hold back the blood.

Like the thousands of pairs of shoes left at the temple gates, the chaos and filth of urban life are left behind at the marble entrances.

But many more are left behind on the marble slabs of the dock, watching the boat pull away, without them.