Sentence examples for marble by from inspiring English sources

"Over many centuries, these seemingly random boundaries between vineyards were worked out and then engraved in marble by our ancestors.

It was carved from marble by Alexandros, a sculptor of Antioch on the Maeander River about 150 bce.

It was commissioned in marble by the divorced Empress Josephine Bonaparte, who died before it was finished.

And there a bag of marble dust – actually carved from a single chunk of marble by Sam Durant.

Back in Roman times, quarrymen cut the marble by hand with hammers and chisels at a rate of about an inch a day.

The bust of the actor Larive in the role of Brutus immortalized in marble by Houdon in 1784 could be a spoof.

("He was really starting to lose his marbles by this point," Mr. Anderson said).

"I met a traveler from an antique land," Shelley wrote, but in fact the head itself had traveled, kidnapped, like the Elgin Marbles, by greedy British antiquarians.

Known as the Elgin Marbles by those who say they belong to Britain (which acquired them from the Ottoman Turks, in 1806), and as the Parthenon Marbles by those who say they were stolen, they have become the world's most famously contested works of art.

(The green glass marbles by HomArt, left, are $10 each, in a black porcelain bowl by GDG Studios, $35; a glass pyramid by HomePort Collections, below left, is $92, and the cube is $84).

So has JVC lost their marbles by entering new terrain?