Sentence examples for unusual stone from inspiring English sources

Some unusual stone carvings also were discovered in Veracruz.

The local beaches and gravel pits are searched by rock hounds for colourful and unusual stone fossils, one of which Petoskey stone (a type of fossilized coral)—was adopted in 1965 as the official state stone.

These range from the unusual stone, shingle and brick houses at 729 and 731 St. Nicholas Avenue (near 146th Street) of 1886 to the deliciously ornamented six-story Jumel apartment house of 1901 at 505 West 142nd Street.

In AD 718, Copán attacked and defeated the unidentified site of Xkuy, recording its burning on an unusual stone cylinder.

Marcus Mera of Flushing, Queens, said he was primarily a "diamond man," selling rare and unusual stones.

The Azuela collection from De Beers has pink, yellow, white and black gold bands, the circlets inter-set with diamonds, while unusual stones like chocolate brown diamonds are used to contrast with a yellow gold bracelet.

The second question is: "Is it really Gaudí?" The great Catalan architect famously adjusted his buildings as he went along, modifying details in response to unusual stones found in the quarry and forever testing his ideas with full size mock-ups.

"The collector of the stones clearly had an eye for unusual stones and crystals with a special significance whose meaning is lost to us," Redwood said in a written statement from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

The Semitic cultures of the Middle East had a tradition of using unusual stones to mark places of worship, a phenomenon which is reflected in the Hebrew Bible as well as the Qur'an, although bowing to or kissing such sacred objects is repeatedly described in the Tenach as idolatrous and was the subject of prophetic rebuke.

PARIS — Jewels inspired by dancers' movements at the Cirque du Soleil and nature's butterflies and bees in unusual gem stones were shown last week in an haute couture initiative.

Its unusual rock formations, stone bridges, and waterfalls remained etched in Pei's memory for decades.