Sentence examples for were of stone from inspiring English sources

Houses were of stone or adobe mud.

The earliest man-made objects were of stone, wood, bone, and earth.

These apartment houses were well suited for the demands of their environment; their walls were of stone or clay and sand mixed as an adobe.

The splendid entrance, ornate if crumbling, is of stone.

The walls are of stone, as rough as excavation.

The wall was to be of stone three cubits thick and four cubits high.

The earlier towns consisted of half-timbered buildings; before ad 100 only public buildings seem to have been of stone.

All the construction within the fort was of stone.

The foundation and steps to the house is of stone.

The vault of the Lady Chapel is the only one in the cathedral that is of stone.

All the surviving crosses are of stone, but there are indications that large numbers of wooden crosses may also have existed.