Sentence examples for blocks of soapstone from inspiring English sources

The great archaic sandstone building blocks used by the Badami Chalukyas were superseded with smaller blocks of soapstone and with smaller masonry.

George McGovern once gave his daughter Teresa a bookend made out of soapstone in the shape of a bear.

Some makers of soapstone countertops even turned to fashioning cubes for imbibers when their home-remodeling businesses slowed.

The black color she chose and the material's soft texture, she said, reminded her of soapstone.

When it comes to the house, Nanapush turns expansive, talking of soapstone, copper, slate and oak; Italian quarrymen and Indian lace makers; miners from Norway.

For one sixth-grade teacher at Middle School 113 in Brooklyn, it would be carving tools, a belt sander and 180 pounds of soapstone.

The Chumash were skilled artisans: they made a variety of tools out of wood, whalebone, and other materials, fashioned vessels of soapstone, and produced some of the most complex basketry in native North America.

A classroom that was added to the schoolhouse in 1917 is now the great room, with 12-foot ceilings, original tin tiles, a wood-burning stove made of soapstone and built-in seating.

The tub at the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side is made out of soapstone; not a bathtub per se, this early tub was designed for laundry and for anyone tiny enough to fit inside.

The theoretical part developed in the paper has been applied in the case of a company which specializes in the manufacture of soapstone fireplaces and building stone.

Carvings made of soapstone are also popular.