Sentence examples for block of pale from inspiring English sources

The stone, weighing 336 pounds (152 kg), is a rectangular block of pale yellow sandstone (almost certainly of Scottish origin) measuring 26 inches (66 cm) by 16 inches (41 cm) by 11 inches (28 cm).

In popular imagination, this has always been a white city: block after block of pale marble buildings that glow even whiter at night, when the floodlights come into play.

The two-tonne block of pale Swaledale fossil limestone bears a deeply incised cross, while the darker plinth has his name, dates, motto and coat of arms.

She stands upon a stretch of soft green grass and the background is layered breezy blocks of pale blue, deep navy and gauzy pink.

Blocks of pale colour take over from the tight grids; these in turn give way to a series of grey paintings, then the white islands, and a last, more exuberant phase.

On the afternoon I stopped by with an American friend, we watched two pastry chefs busy at a marble-top counter surrounded by scales, baking tins, blocks of pale sweet butter and a tub of freshly made ganache.

The show opened with washed-denim trousers and sheer white tops over bare skin that was painted in graphic blocks of pale blue, pink and tea green, to suggest T-shirts.

At regular, breath-like intervals, small mechanical hammers chip away at two nearby blocks of pale pink marble the color of corpse skin.

A tidy sugar cube of pale beige stucco smoothly troweled over concrete blocks, its mass-market modernism shelters two bedrooms and one bath.

When I meet Lloyd at Brown's hotel over the road from his gallery, he is just back from Art Basel, where the Marlborough stand had a 1954 Rothko from a Swiss collection, a block of orange above a band of pale pink that Lloyd had priced at $78m£48.7m7m).

A block of plaster is cleverly chiselled so as to partially reveal its inner vase of pale green (in three sizes: $10, $70, $84).