Sentence examples for block of limestone from inspiring English sources

The lead coffin, decorated with an inlaid crucifix, was buried inside a much larger stone sarcophagus hollowed out of a single block of limestone, but the lid did not fit well, and over the centuries water penetration badly cracked the stone and decayed some of the lead, exposing the bones of her feet.

The island is a single block of limestone 3.9 miles (6.25 km) long, with a maximum width of 1.8 miles and an area of 4 square miles (10 square km), rising to 1,932 feet (589 metres) at Monte Solaro in the west.

The 2 by 2 cm by 3 mm block of limestone was then mounted onto high-purity quartz round-mounts using standard geologic thin-sectioning adhesive resins.

Maple Street was a pristine block of limestone houses in Lefferts Manor in Brooklyn.

The building's cornerstone is a ten ton block of limestone quarried in Spencer, Indiana.

You'd think our understanding of self-portraiture might have shifted a little since, oh I dunno, Egyptian artist Ni-ankh-Ptah chiseled his own mug onto block of limestone back in the heady days of 2350 BC.

Unfortunately, the people spoke, and officials dropped these plans like five-ton blocks of limestone.

It's a rugged, canyon-filled landscape resting on high blocks of limestone and sedimentary rock.

The blocks of limestone came from a quarry near Austin, where they were milled and carved over the summer.

In Iranian salt domes, halite is mixed with anhydrite and marl (argillaceous limestone) and large blocks of limestone and igneous rock.

An aqueduct was constructed, consisting of about two million blocks of limestone, with five huge, pointed archways over the brook in the valley.