Sentences with phrase «of stone slabs»

He gives his matte colors and slightly rounded rectangles, separated by thin areas of color, the look of stone slabs.

In doing so, they give you that huge, wide chest that resembles a set of stone slabs set on your chest sideways.

You've got this bounded space of the stone slab.

The porcelain tile backpslash looks like marble but costs a fraction of the price of a stone slab.

Not exact matches

He wasn't imposing his vision on slabs of stone; he was revealing the figures within.

Wearing a yarmulke, Bush placed a red - white - and - blue wreath on a stone slab that covers ashes of Holocaust victims taken from six extermination camps.

Miniature cromlechs of small stone slabs marked the grave with a granite piece to represent the deceased.

Early in AD 1625 when trenches were being made for the foundation of some building near Chang» an (Hsi - an), the capital city of T'ang empire, a great slab of stone with an Inscription both in Syriac and Chinese was discovered.

They destroyed churches and looted them and used them to build their mosques.That's the reason why the stone slab that covers the burial ground of jesus was intentionally broken by Christians into halves to prevent the muslims from taking it and used it as a floor in their mosques.

Several were kneeling at the Stone of Unction, a flat, brown slab of marble just inside the entrance of the church.

Researchers in Jerusalem may soon be one step closer to understanding more about a stone slab that the body of Jesus may have been laid on after the crucifixion.

Quite a great deal of strength and vigor is required to be able to crush coconut on a stone slab!

The Carrolls also poured their sweat equity into rehabbing the house they bought, hand - cutting and setting giant slabs of rock for its stone floor.

Although the list isn't necessarily Shrigley's, there are some favorites on that slab of stone, as well as a few items he'd never go for.

Aristotle observed that when stonemasons carved round pillars from slabs of stone, their straight edge rulers proved useless.

LETTER STONE Inscriptions in stone slabs from Egypt, including this specimen dating to almost 3,500 years ago, contain the world's oldest alphabet, which one researcher now argues was an early form of HeSTONE Inscriptions in stone slabs from Egypt, including this specimen dating to almost 3,500 years ago, contain the world's oldest alphabet, which one researcher now argues was an early form of Hestone slabs from Egypt, including this specimen dating to almost 3,500 years ago, contain the world's oldest alphabet, which one researcher now argues was an early form of Hebrew.

SAN ANTONIO — The world's earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes.

Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at...

Aerial laser maps, excavations and stone - slab hieroglyphics indicate that La Corona, a largely rural settlement, became a key part of a far - ranging Classic - era Maya kingdom that incorporated sites from southern Mexico to Central America, researchers reported on April 15 at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This task involved using a handheld stone to crush grain on large, curved slabs of stone.

Women's right - arm strength rose sharply in early agricultural communities, mainly due to hours of daily grain grinding using handheld stones on large stone slabs, Sládek says.

In fact, the distribution pattern they found showed two distinct clusters of artifacts, one near some stone slabs, which they interpret as the remnants of a burial platform, and another in the nearby depression where the hikers found the Iceman's body.

An etching on a slab of stone in Spain seems to show a group of seven huts forming a campsite or village that would have been inhabited 13,800 years ago

They then spelled out the name of the emperor or official by selecting the appropriate letter molds, placing them into a carved slot in a stone slab.

Ensuring that the molds lay flush with the surface of the stone, they locked the type into place and laid the stone slab on a large flat tray.

At the center of the main cavern, the Maltese builders set up megalithic slabs in a semicircle, at the heart of which was a huge carved stone bowl.

Nearly 15 years ago, two fishers in the waters off the southern coast of Sri Lanka hauled up a stone slab etched with ancient Hindu symbols.

Almost every guy that goes to the gym spends time on the bench press — but how many of these guys end up getting a huge, wide, stone - slab - like chest that gets women weak at the knees?

I thought of your post about marble today when I walked through stone yards today, and I had the confidence to tag a few marble slabs.

Made from a sweeping slab of gorgeous polished stone, this elegant tray is fitted with slim, shining metal handles.

This is the golden rule; write it on a stone slab and mount it on your desk if you like: You are complimenting them because a certain aspect of their appearance or personality is wonderful, and you want them to know this and feel happy because of it.

[In Arthur Clarke's novel, the mysterious monolithic stone slab is a technological machine belonging to aliens in space, one of hundreds of such monoliths sent to Earth to test, teach and transform the apes into higher - order, intelligent beings.]

Here is why in a nutshell: Ebooks are basically HTML, and not advanced web2.0 / webapp / skynet HTML, but stripped - down, carved in a stone slab as Cuneiform kind of HTML — no layers, limited positioning, tricky - to - non-existent font embedding... It's barbarian by web design standards.

When Layla awakens tied down to a slab of stone and watching a sunset that should not exist, all she remembers is running.

Tablets have come a long way since the days of chiselling inscriptions onto flat stone slabs.

The standard features include... ocean views, 2 car garages, top of the line appliances, barbeque stations, private Jacuzzi, Cantera stone accents throughout, granite slab kitchen counters, marble bathroom counters, incredible brick domes and much, much more.

Gallery On Collection Tiki (1-9-10 Ebisu - Minami, Shibuya - ku, 3711 - 8678) epitomizes contemporary Japanese design with stone floors, wood slab tables and a changing roster of shows that usually feature utilitarian objects such as carved bowls or handblown glassware.

Dating back to as early as 200 B.C., Xunantunich boasts carved stone slabs called stelae containing recordings of important events of Mayan civilization.

Beautiful beaches including pebble beach Soline and numerous coves of which each hides an ideal combination of small pebbles and stone slabs are close to the SENSES Resort.

CORAL STONE CLUB # 22 3 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms Sleeps 6 An extension of our Coral Stone Club name, this Grand Cayman condo is full of vibrant colors and actual corals on display, as well as having a unique single - slab segmented graniSTONE CLUB # 22 3 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms Sleeps 6 An extension of our Coral Stone Club name, this Grand Cayman condo is full of vibrant colors and actual corals on display, as well as having a unique single - slab segmented graniStone Club name, this Grand Cayman condo is full of vibrant colors and actual corals on display, as well as having a unique single - slab segmented granite is

Players will work on a day / night schedule where they'll craft stone blocks and slabs, swords, ladders, torches and dig out areas to make out the dungeon of their dreams.

Some of the later areas, especially the inundated temple (where you have to freeze enemies and leap atop and from their frozen forms to proceed from one water - enclosed slab of stone to the next) and the ice cavern (with its slippery surfaces and tricky platforming), pose extreme challenges; you'll feel great when you finally get through them.

With a palette of muted reds, blues, greens, and grays, the works are inspired by Chinese steles — monumental stone slabs carved with religious inscriptions dating back to AD 800.

Nine, colossal, approximately 20 - foot - tall stone sculptures will populate Rockefeller Center starting early next week, as visitors will be encouraged to walk under the coarsely - hewn figures, which the artist carved from massive slabs of bluestone.

Their structure is deceptively firm, like slabs of slate in a natural stone wall.

Levinson's word paintings are reminiscent of ancient stone slabs with surfaces that appear pure white until a closer reading reveals a darker underpainting that capriciously asserts its presence through a distressed veneer which she...

For sculptural works, using materials such as steel plates, cubes and horizontal stone slabs, Khan sandblasts the surface with templates of musical scores or prayers, continuing his investigation into the ways in which cultural, visual, cinematic and temporal memories coalesce into a dense, synesthetic whole.

Gabriel Kuri is known for sculptures and collages that he creates from the remains of everyday purchases and objects such as tickets, cigarettes, body care products, slabs of marble, stones and other materials.

Once the exhibition is complete, the three sculptures that make up the exhibition will be disassembled and the marble slabs returned to Savannah - based Garpa Company: House of Natural Stone, which lent the materials for the duration of the show.

Moses» recent marbleized works show only an effect, and end up having all the expressive power of a polished slab of stone, attractive but superficial.