There is enough marble to reconstruct one or more whole facades.
The government, Mr. Adly said, gave the thugs money and broken marble to attack the protesters.
We picked our way carefully from gneiss to marble to schist.
He is searching for his concert, the way a sculpture chisels away at marble to discover a statute.
And despite the questionable legality of unauthorized cave exploration, on weekends curious visitors regularly clamber over dump trucks and multi-ton blocks of marble to explore in solitude.
"Of course," she says, "you could use a piece of marble to stop a door, but to me this object has an honest quality.
Chernow's aim is to make of Washington something other than a "lifeless waxwork," an "impossibly stiff and wooden figure, composed of too much marble to be quite human".
Casting in bronze was the domain of specialists, but he also delegated the hewing of marble to others, to be executed under his direction but not by him.
In the 1840s, to serve quarry owners who transported marble to the city, the New York and Harlem Railroad opened two depots in Tuckahoe.
Two nights later, in Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, Yefim Bronfman brought more colors from the beginning, moving from marble to cashmere in the course of a single downward run.
In a 19th-century economy move, the builders of the interior switched from marble to a material called Beton Coignet, also known as artificial stone.
