Sentence examples for sheet of marble from inspiring English sources

He will show them how the rows are straight as a ruler, how the surface is as flat as a sheet of marble, no sharp edges.

In form these early medieval windows varied considerably: the actual window openings were at first filled with thin sheets of marble, alabaster, gypsum, or even wooden boards, which were pierced with holes, coloured glass being inserted into these holes.

It's a splendid piece of work, a bronze relief of the physicist Edward Teller, set on a sheet of black marble.

The entry hall at Webster Hall is a strange mix of a place: wainscoting and baseboards of highly figured dark marble, perhaps 100 years old, above which were placed wallboard-type sheets of imitation marble from a much later date, running to the ceiling.

It grew large, with 11 tons of marble for one sculpture and sheets and sheets of steel for four others.

It grew large, with 11 tons of marble for one sculpture and sheets of steel for four others.

The Chautauqua's lobby was vast — as big as a four-bedroom apartment, a dark, heavy expanse of deeply veined marble, like a sheet of Bavarian pastry.

The island is mainly composed of marble.

Many varieties of marble on display.

Fragments of marble had cut his foot.

The roof tiles were of marble.