Sentence examples for blocks of stone from from inspiring English sources

The history lesson continues inside, where a stepped corner of the abbey's ancient raft foundation has been revealed, built from 11th-century blocks of stone from Caen in France.

The stones may no longer be wanted or quarried but to remain open the business may sometimes import blocks of stone from other quarries for sale.

His paintings became more sculptural, until one day he started carving a block of stone from the Brooklyn Bridge.

The single block of stone from which the statue was carved came from a quarry at Aswan, in southern Egypt.

While DH Lawrence would at least recognise the characters and narratives in Husbands and Sons, if not their interaction, Chekhov's unstaged play has long been treated as a block of stone from which various dramatists have chipped out their favoured shapes.

The producers describe the show as one of the most comprehensive of its kind ever mounted; it will also include an in-scale re-creation of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, with a three-ton block of stone from the wall itself.

Out of loneliness, Bunyan carves a block of stone from the mountains into a blue ox that he calls Babe, who is rendered alive by an electric shock.

"We've been through a lot of different methods of doing that but what we've settled on is one mechanic for moving parts of the world around — so it's a way of picking up giant blocks of stone, for example, and moving them around from A to B. The way that works is you look at a point on the stone… And once you've looked at it, it becomes attracted to where you're looking.

Large blocks of stone were pulled from the parapets above its glass roof by a pigeon net, weighted down with snow, a local shopkeeper confirmed.

It began as a timber circle, later made permanent with massive blocks of stone, many somehow dragged from dolerite rock in the Welsh mountains.

It is likely that the mausoleum also reflects influences that had lived on from prehistoric megalithic graves, which were piled up from solid blocks of stone.