Sentence examples for slate marble from inspiring English sources

The muted colors and marbled fabrics in the 2009 fall collection were intended to resemble granite, slate, marble: "the materials used in the structure of a home," the designers wrote in an e-mail.

The building will be replete with amenities: a lobby finished in slate, marble and rich woods that opens to the atrium courtyard; a 24-hour uniformed concierge; three conference rooms and a theater for use by residents; and a fitness center, installed on three levels of the building's landmark "Nipper" tower, with 360 degree views.

Following the merger, the Ma and Pa operated through passenger and freight trains between York and Baltimore, as well as local trains at each end of the line, hauling mail and express, slate, marble, anthracite coal, lumber, furniture, and agricultural products to market.

The second group consists of the Marmara islands proper in the southwest, off Kapıdagı Peninsula; these have granite, slate, and marble that have been quarried since antiquity hence the sea's name (Greek marmaros, "marble").

The steps are a mosaic of granite, schist, slate and marble, pulled from the ruins of collapsed buildings here and at other sites and set in concrete by a team of 200 amateur masons.

Interiors reflect the best of Portugal with the decorators, Bastir – renowned for their designs in both the Bairro Alto Hotel in Lisbon and Vidago Palace in the country's extreme north – drawing together art, bespoke porcelain from Braz Gil Studio, silks, wood, slate and marble from around the country to create a harmonious whole.

The story goes that he left New York on something called the Albany night boat, then hitchhiked his way northeast to Granville, whose slate and marble industry anchored the area's economy in the 19th century and whose quarries still operate along 25 miles of the Vermont-New York border.

In New England it is floored with slates and marbles and forms the Valley of Vermont, one of the few fertile areas in an otherwise mountainous region.

She would find these really exotic slates and marbles, the kind that are at the Louvre, and light fixtures made out of handcrafted artisan materials that cost nearly a thousand dollars per sconce.

Marble, slate or linoleum floors?

Corian, marble, slate -- ho-hum.