Sentence examples for marble shell from inspiring English sources

They will take apart, slab by slab, the ornate marble shell built in 1810, during Ottoman rule of Jerusalem.

Yet Owen's art is not some dry political rant – he is a 21st-century surrealist revealing phantoms, nightmares and cruelty hidden in the marble shell of the beautiful.

According to Rosemary Scott, an Asian art expert at Christie's, the Chinese built "European palaces" in part of the park that were designed by European Jesuit missionaries employed by the Chinese court; the same missionaries designed the fountain, which consisted of a huge marble shell and the bronze animal heads on clothed human bodies carved in stone.

Liquid marble can also be used as a gas emitter; the relatively thin liquid marble shell enables the gas dissolved in the liquid marble core to be emitted to the supporting surface from a very close range, making it possible to carry out chemical sensing using the emitted gas as an indicator.

Fill the container with about 2 inches (5.1 cm) of pebbles, marbles, shells or glass beads.

I saved the ones I liked -- twig, rose marble and shell -- in an online shopping basket.

The most important calcium compound is calcium carbonate, CaCO3, the major constituent of limestone, marble, chalk, oyster shells, and corals.

In the living room, she placed her mother's silver gravy boat and travel alarm clock on a table alongside a maple burl and a bowl of marble eggs and shells.

And the use of this common, elemental rock formed from calcified sea shells (marble itself is an ultrarefined version of it) contributes to the earthy, almost archetypically provincial charm and variety of much Cypriot art.

The alkali for this reaction was commonly lye prepared from wood ash, but could also originate from calcium-rich substrates such as chalk, marble dust, egg shells, or cuttlefish bone [36].

Glass, ceramic, marble or limestone, shells, pebbles, enamel, ivory, mother-of-pearl, gold, painted and semiprecious stones―in the most refined form especially cut into hard cubes known as tesserae―were set at different angles and depths and arranged into tactile patterns depicting mythologic subjects, everyday or theatrical scenes, and many other themes to adorn architectural structures.