Sentence examples for on a marble from inspiring English sources

There is no more moving image in the show than that of two women, one seated and one standing, facing each other in carved relief on a marble grave stele dated to the fourth century B.C.

The names and ages of the dead are engraved on a marble plaque that dominates one of the exhibit rooms.

But the most powerful image of civic aspiration gone to ruin is the one that opens the song: a "beat-up little seagull on a marble stair".

How do you stand an egg on a marble surface?

"We are on a marble floating in the middle of nothing.

A glass that was tipped over on a marble counter chipped slightly.

They sit there, alluringly, on a marble mantel, sending out powerful signals.

The work left the street lined with leftover shards of property, like a crystal vase dropped on a marble floor.

The tortes and strudels, arrayed on a marble shelf, rival the Klimts and Schieles in the galleries upstairs.

Guards will search for you if they hear your step on a marble floor or find an unconscious body.

I remember waltzing on a marble dancefloor with my father, late at night, near a pool lit from beneath.