Sentence examples for small limestone from inspiring English sources

In wonderful contrast with this conventional-style work is a striking small limestone stele, also dating from the first century A.D., from Petra's Temple of the Winged Lions.

The offering includes a small limestone statue fashioned in an archaic style, entitled "Boxer," by William Edmondson, the first African-American to be given a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1937.

Mr. Low, the self-made owner of a small limestone mining company in Batesville, Ark., sometimes wears a silver and lapis lazuli ring he gave to his daughter that was found in the wreckage.

From around 560-540 B.C. a small limestone kouros -- usually means a standing male nude, but in this case dressed in Greek fashion -- wears a headband that divides his forelocks while allowing three long curls to fall on each shoulder.

"In Egypt you need a project that everyone can believe in, a national project," Dr. Hawass said, standing beside a marvel of ancient craftsmanship, two massive slabs of red granite, carved with simple hand tools and hauled hundreds of miles north from the rocky terrain of Luxor to a small limestone pyramid here just outside of modern Cairo "We have to learn from ancient Egypt".

One of the earliest – and best known – is a small limestone figurine, little more than 11cm (4in) high, traditionally called the Venus of Willendorf.

But the highlight is snorkelling over a coral reef just off Hell's Gate, a small, eroded, limestone island.

Archaeologists have determined that slaves from the neighbouring villages, likely in the north, built Choquequirao, using vertical stonework and small stones (limestone and granite).

A very small amount of limestone is present in sequences where basalt is successively overlain by chert and limestone.

Connected to main river by a small stream  Dry limestone forest N4°01′27.18″ E114°49′11.21″′ Dipterocarp forest (Hopea andersonii and Shorea multiflora common) on limestone hill next to a river.

The precarious nature of living on the margin of the world impressed me as I wandered through the small labyrinth of limestone walls.