Voorbeelden van alabaster

• Conscious of nothing but her grief, motionless, and blinded by her tears, she looked like a weeping statue of alabaster. 

• In the middle of the lower court there was a stately fountain of fair alabaster. 

• She could blanch to the whiteness of alabaster. 

• The cliffs that border the foreshore are strikingly coloured and are veined with alabaster. 

• The whole of the frieze is of alabaster, while the architrave and cornice are of black marble. 

• The team felt it was important that the building should naturally keep the alabaster cool, without any mechanical equipment subject to failure or human error.

• Lighting of the alabaster curtain wall so that at night it would light the church interior and act as a beacon to the community outside.

• With biological literalism, the photograph conveys the material truth behind the alabaster male torso of classical sculpture that it self-consciously displaces.