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Example sentences for: marble

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Laundry adorns disintegrating balconies, while in the center of the plaza an incongruous, neoclassical gleaming marble fountain has been installed (it’s an unmitigated disaster in this atmospheric corner of Old Havana).
Its principal interest for many Americans, however, is that this is Hilda's Tower, where the ethereal heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun lived while she studied painting in Rome.
His marble sleeves and pants legs break into noble tailored folds around his endless arms and legs, his marble lapels lie gravely along his chest, his marble buttons, watch chain, necktie, and collar points create small episodes along the front of his lean body, over a marble shirt and waistcoat that create a stately sequence of carved wrinkles.
Inside is a 16th-century sculpted sandstone pulpit and marble altar.
Many other remains date from the Roman era, including ornate entrances round the Fountain of Peirene where you can still hear the waters flowing through caves at the rear, and the Lechaion Road that linked the city to Athens — with worn cart tracks clearly visible in the marble slabs.