Sentence examples for precious marble from inspiring English sources
The palace's reception hall has walls covered with precious marble, brocades, and splendid tapestries and display panels by Carlo Dolci, Paolo Veronese, and Salvator Rosa.
Instead of precious marble, we were offered salt licks, large white blocks of salt that are given to livestock to lick.
A key sculpture has been brought back from there, a precious marble said to have come from Constantinople, of Zeus in the form of an eagle carrying away the beautiful young shepherd Ganymede.
But the sandy beach was packed that day, and for good reason: it was mid-July, the temperature was in Celsius (about 88 degrees Fahrenheit), and the white on the mountains wasn't snow, but precious marble.
The precious marble of Greek temples was disguised under painted stucco; Roman brickwork was hidden by slabs of coloured marble; and 19th-century cast-iron columns were molded into classic or Gothic forms.
The complex of ruined pavilions and reservoir gives a sketchy idea of the grandiose palace, demolished in the 17th century by a sultan who took away the precious marble and onyx to build a capital at Meknes.
As the Olympic Games return to Athens in 2004, so, the Greeks hope, will their most precious marbles.
That leads Edward to pursue a Russian mobster — or agent — who has possession of a metal attaché case filled with precious "marbles" that is apparently of vital strategic interest, but could also be a metaphor for Henry/Edward's sanity.
This will help preserve your precious marbles while having it with you all the time.
The style emerged from the legendary Exposition Internationale des Art Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes held in Paris in 1925 – a grand showing of design and decoration, from furniture and accessories to interiors and architecture, mapped out in acres of precious veneers, marble and onyx, stainless steel and aluminium, all much influenced by Egyptian, Babylonian and Assyrian archaeology.
Marco de Vincenzo, a youngish designer with a following, got a little carried away with the "classico" influence of Rome, "precious Republican marbles" (per his show notes) and glory-days couture, as in pencil skirts and creamy tunics in leather and wool.
