Sentence examples for forest of stone from inspiring English sources

Here, his "forest of stone steles: retranslation and rewriting of tang poetry" (2007) is a group of handmade accordion books of ink rubbings from carved stone steles he had made, the results of a complex process of retranslations from English renderings of poetry from the Tang dynasty (618-907) back into Chinese, using his own vernacular.

Two old buildings in Valencia served him as early sources of inspiration: a 16th-century Gothic palace known as La Lonja, with its forest of stone columns sustaining a high roof, and the 19th-century Central Market, with fewer iron columns supporting a still larger roof.

Palmyra is the last place anyone would expect to find a forest of stone columns and arches.

The petrified forest does not appear as a forest of stone: it is more a question of fossil concretions located within the park.

This is the legendary forest of stone that almost defies description.

Imagine a morning watching the sun rise and then passing through a forest of stone fairy chimneys?

Blade-like columns of limestone, many over 10 m tall, form a landscape that resembles a forest of stones.

It is an odd sight: Nature penned in amid a forest of brick and stone; and the innocent stranger might be tempted to pass through the black-barred gate, to spend a quiet hour in contemplation of such a wonder.

The tower, built in Burges's signature Forest of Dean ashlar stone, formed a suite of bachelor's rooms, comprising a bedroom, a servant's room and the Summer and Winter smoking rooms.

Last year thousands gathered at al-Lajjun, just north of the West Bank, where a thick pine forest shelters the ruins of stone houses whose owners and their descendants now live a few minutes down the highway in Umm al-Fahm.The other group is religious Jewish settlers.

Small mammal abundance mostly depends on the heterogeneity of habitat and factors such as forest floor, presence of stones, vertical shelter and soil moisture (Carey and Harrington 2001).