Sentence examples for built of marble from inspiring English sources

The Scalzi Bridge, at the railway station, was built of marble in 1932.

The family of the original owner of the duplex penthouse, the variety store magnate Samuel H. Kress, who paid $150,000 in 1925 and installed a stairway built of marble from Michelangelo's favorite quarry in Pietrasanta, Italy, did not part with it until 2011.

Most Greek temples were built of marble or other stone, richly carved and polychromed, situated on a hill or stepped platform (stylobate) and having sloping roofs supported on a portico by columns in a variety of styles (see order) and placements.

He tells of the day they moved in to their brand-new headquarters, built of marble, at great expense only to discover that it had not occurred to anyone that the Telecom Ministry might need wires.

On the front of the building is a quote from Suetonius' Life of Augustus: "He found a city built of brick – left it built of marble".

The only entranceway to the Acropolis at its western end, the Propylaea was built of Pentelic marble, with some details of black Eleusian stone.

There's a very nice temple near Udaipur in India, built of white marble in the middle of a green forest.

Both the cathedral and the baptistery are built of white marble with strips of black in the Pisan Romanesque style, which features colonnades and the decorative use of pointed arches.

Late in life, Einstein likened his famous equation to a building, one wing of which (the left) was built of "fine marble", the other (the right) of "low grade wood" (1936, 311).

The monument is built of Tennessee marble above the seat and the remainder is of Stony Creek granite.

The new city hall was a Greek Revival structure, built of white marble with an entrance porch supported by four Doric columns.