Exempel på 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.

• There was consensus that the alabaster should be protected with a layer of laminated glass on the exterior, and a series of experiments were used to develop the appropriate solution.

• The right honourable lady quoted the story of the woman with the alabaster jar.

• Featuring the significant swimming pool, it also includes: fountains, ornamental pools, sculptures, marble pavilions, alabaster lanterns, dressing rooms, and an ancient temple facade.

• The cascades are formations like foaming cataracts caught in mid-air and transformed into milk-white or amber alabaster.

• Moreover, the calcite alabaster, being a carbonate, effervesces upon being touched with hydrochloric acid, whereas the gypsum alabaster, when thus treated, remains practically unaffected.

• The inventory is exceptionally rich, presenting personal and grave goods made of gold, silver, bronze, alabaster, glass, clay, leather.

• The burial chamber possibly housed an alabaster sarcophagus, many pieces were found in the sand and debris that filled the chamber.

• A very fine-grained white or lightly tinted variety of gypsum, called alabaster, is prized for ornamental work of various sorts.

• Its sides will be composed of translucent panels of alabaster and cast glass.

• Meanwhile, four mermaid princesses come from a magnificent alabaster underwater palace.

• Some of the most important royal sepulchres have alabaster statues that lie over the tomb.

• Alabaster, in particular, has long been cherished for its translucence.