Sentence examples for rare marble from inspiring English sources

"Which noble from Arles would order a bust of himself made in the best, the most expensive and rare marble, and ship it by boat?" he asked.

Swallowtail butterflies led us along alpine paths towards the Soca gorge, where a wooden footbridge crosses a turquoise river that burbles with minerals and rare marble trout.

On the inner part of the triumphal arch between the two is a 6th-century mosaic, and along the walls are giant Corinthian columns of rare marble taken from a non-Christian building.

Next door to Mr. George's town, in Clarksburg, the police routinely shoo away or arrest entrepreneurs and collectors who try to sneak onto a torn-up former factory floor of the Akro Agate Company, looking in old drainpipes and digging around the grounds for corkscrews and Popeyes and sparklers and fluorescents (from uranium salts) and other rare marble varieties.

According to some sources, the boss took his place at the center of the parlor, which was covered in rare marble and represented just one of his numerous villas, and began to talk about contracts, concrete, construction, and land all while petting a tiger on a leash.

The banking suites and lobby contained rare marbles.

Watch glass-blowers in action, peruse shelves of rare marbles dating back to 1600, examine marble board games and brilliantly intricate marble runs, and learn how the colourful spheres are made.

The latter takes its name from the rare green marble in which it is carved from a quarry in Egypt, where it was probably commissioned by Caesar's adopted son, the future emperor Augustus, who was to make his benefactor's legacy, financial and political, into a form of government that was to endure until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

A rare white marble Buddhist votive stela (stone slab) from the Northern Qi dynasty (a.d. 550 to 577) was estimated at $300,000 to $500,000 but sold for $1.7 million.

The setting is no less potently symbolic: a lofty, illusionistic classical temple with a coffered, embossed and gilded ceiling, supported by enormous arches and pillars clad in rare colored marbles, the first two great columns with noble carved capitols and faces adorned with intricate patterns of oak branches, leaves and acorns (the family name "rovere" means "oak").

The palaces of the caliphs were of marble, rare woods, jade, and alabaster, with fountains and interior gardens, and carpets and wall hangings by the thousand.