Sentence examples for great limestone from inspiring English sources

We could see Saddam's great limestone palace overlooking Babylon, several miles away.

Round another corner of the park, and the great limestone thrust of the Empire State Building strides into view.

Epirus is largely made up of great limestone ridges oriented northwest-southeast and north-south; they reach up to 8,600 feet (2,600 m) in height and fall off more steeply to the west.

In an e-mail message, Michael De Gennaro, a shareholder at 900 Fifth, expressed astonishment that a white brick apartment building would be regulated alongside the great limestone apartment houses of Fifth Avenue, calling such a decision "completely without merit".

That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.

Two long windows with window seats overlook the spacious elegance of the college front court and, filling the view to the left, Henry VI's great limestone chapel, a supreme example of perpendicular architecture.

The tower is capped by a great circular limestone plate, which carries the dome track.

The five-block stretch of Meridian north of the circle introduces the visitor to one of Indiana's great exports: Bedford limestone.

When the train starts up again, he explains that all around them are great slabs of limestone packed in order, one on top of the other, like a grand construction.

Off to one side were the "scrubbers" — enormous metal contraptions that capture some of the acid-rain components by pumping the coal fumes through great waterfalls of limestone slurry.

A government restoration award is to go to the 1901 Hall of Fame for Great Americans, a limestone, semicircular ambulatory terrace designed by McKim, Mead & White at what is now Bronx Community College.