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Example sentences for "marble slab"

  • It is well to have a marble slab to roll it on, but this is not positively essential.

  • Sift the flour and salt together on a board or marble slab; reserve a little flour to be used for dusting the slab.

  • Wooden spatula for working sugar on marble slab to make fondant.

  • Have ready a marble slab, very lightly but evenly rubbed over with sweet-oil.

  • If you are working on a piece of unattached glass, lay it on a flat table (a marble slab is preferable), over which you must previously lay a piece of baize or cloth to keep the glass steady.

  • If rust has made its appearance on grates or fire-irons, apply a mixture of two parts of tripoli to one of sulphur, intimately mingled on a marble slab, and laid on with a piece of soft leather.

  • When it is done remove from fire and pour over a large platter that has been cooled or over a marble slab.

  • While a platter can be used instead of a marble slab in making fondant and some other candies, yet, since the marble is naturally cool, the candy syrups will cool much more quickly on it and for this reason is desirable.

  • Pour over a large platter or a marble slab.

  • The coffin is thrust in endwise, and the opening closed with a marble slab bearing an inscription.

  • In the face of one the precipices by the way-side, a marble slab is fixed, informing the traveller that the road was opened by the late Emperor of Germany in the year 1830.

  • In the same part of the Temple of Athena we found the fragment of a marble slab, which has evidently been very long, with the inscription given on the opposite page.

  • Have ready one-fourth cupful each of preserved garden "ginger" and spiced beets drained from their syrup; cut very fine, and spread upon a marble slab.

  • The next morning remove the candy, paper and all, from the pan and place it on a marble slab, slightly oiled.

  • The bars are to be placed--set on edge--in the form of a rectangle on a marble slab.

  • Use a marble slab if possible and avoid making the paste on a warm, damp day.

  • On the floor of this church is a marble slab with a fac-simile of the footmark of the Savior, which is pretended to have been made upon the pavement on which he stood.

  • The place where the Savior's body is said to have lain, is covered by a marble slab, considerably worn at the edges by the continued kissing of pilgrims.

  • Within this building, near the door, surrounded by a low railing, is the Stone of Unction, which consists of a marble slab, on which the body of the Savior is said to have been anointed for the burial.

  • At the eastern end is a marble slab in the pavement, and in the centre of the slab is a silver star, bearing the inscription: "Hic de Virgine Maria Jesus Christ Natus est.

  • It contains a marble altar and a marble slab, with a cross upon it, which marks the spot where the Virgin stood at the time of the Annunciation.

  • Immediately in front of the door is a marble slab, set in the pavement and inclosed by a low railing; this is called the Stone of Unction, on which Christ's body was laid to be anointed.

  • Marble Slab=—The next most important thing both for its usefulness and convenience is a marble slab.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aircraft guns; amidst the; descent upon; four winds; golden apple; gray stone; heart was; interior life; little short; marble mortar; marble slab; marble statue; marbled edges; often accompanied; other mammals; our last; parish clerk; peared like; secular canons; staff officers; surprise and; three pints; under pretence; unto thee; whether good