His 1939 novel "On the Marble Cliffs" is seen by some critics as an attack on the Nazis, but not by others.
"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty": John F. Kennedy's words, carved in the white marble cliffs of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C., have always seemed more wistful than hopeful.
During the summer of 1908, the Bushes were completing atwo-and-a-half-story colonial-style seventeen-room home on RoxburyRoad overlooking the bluff of Marble Cliff in Columbus, Ohio.
Cast in bronze and covered in 24-carat gold leaf, the statue of Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov soars over 20 metres from the ground and is perched on an outcrop of white marble cliff.
Behind the casuarina trees along "Millionaire's Mile," luxury multimillion-dollar homes perch on cliffs, their marble swimming pools looking out west over the Andaman Sea.
From 1907 to 1909 he built one of the most unusual houses in New York, a cliff-top marble fantasy that quickly became known as the Paterno Castle, which stood to the north of Mr. Navin's present building.
Again the hotel became serene and we went back to our sofa to dream of inbound scows between cliffs of gleaming marble.
The narrative follows the lives of two hardscrabble farmers, Tike and Ella May Hamlin, living in the cap rock country of West Texas, "that big high, crooked cliff of limestone, sandrock, marble and flint, that runs between and is the line that divides the lower west Texas plains from the upper north Panhandle plains".
While the Foscato crew was laying out marble stripes to realize her image of Gibraltar cliffs and waves, he said, "She was smart enough to let the other artists decide".
Ashkelon is so rich in artifacts that a few months after we left, a storm collapsed a cliff to reveal a 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-oldn whiteng a toga and sandals.
A little further down, where there is space between the cliff face and the stream, stands the large marble memorial to the 1992 Olympic champion Fabio Casartelli, who crashed here on July 18 1995 and died of massive head injuries.
