Sentence examples for marble pavements from inspiring English sources

Pink marble pavements and Parisian-style street furniture already grace main thoroughfares, while others are to be widened.

Here, where white colonnaded walls and marble pavements surround a vast pool, the Sikhs built, rebuilt and rebuilt again their 400-year-old Golden Temple.

You knew that one day you would go out into a world of marble pavements and peacocks, of hillsides buzzing with heat, the fragrance of crushed herbs rising around you as you walked.

Hundreds of worshipers squat and kneel and bow on the marble pavements before him, then leave to cure their toothaches by rubbing the tusks of the bronze elephants captured 300 years ago when the old capital of Siam was sacked.

The main street Placa, also known as the Stradun, is one of the world's noblest drags, and in season its polished marble pavements are thronged with visitors (and are treacherous after rain).

And it is the colors that we so often find in Roman mosaics [correction: marble pavements], especially in major public buildings and in private palaces: this combination of green, maroon and white, as you see here, with a variety of very attractive geometric shapes.

Its canal-level courtyard has a stunning marble pavement that is both beautiful and waterproof.

The pedestal was beneath an arcade on the green marble pavement a few feet from the door.

In the palace courtyard, while champagne flowed, and an occasional tear dropped on the marble pavement, we toasted the royal couple.

On a recent visit to occupied East Jerusalem for a Palestinian arts festival, she covertly took a cast of a stretch of ancient marble pavement, dodging Israeli police, and smuggled it home in her suitcase.

It consists of roughly laid slabs of travertine, and is about 20 centimetres higher than the marble pavement just described.