The inside is of Italian marble and Massachusetts granite highly polished, with the ceiling and rotunda formed of exquisitely wrought white stucco work.
His garments, I notice, are as comic as ever, and I suppose he is now living in a turretted house with stucco walls and stone lions at New Rochelle, wedded to Commerce and a buxom girl who talks too much and rag-times through her days.
It is true that when death seized upon the man who was brother and pal as well as father to Martin, all the stucco beneath which he had so carefully hidden his spiritual and imaginative side cracked and broke.
All the stucco of civilization fell about him in slabs as he made his way with long strides out of the Hosacks' place, across the sandy road and on to the springy turf of the golf links.
The figures and the sarcophagi are made of terra-cotta covered by a dead whitestucco which gives them a singularly modern look.
The walls, like those of all the other halls, are bedecked with stucco and carved with arabesques incredibly intricate and delicate, forming one of the most marvellous works of human patience and imagination.
We have not limited ourselves entirely to the Maya manuscripts as we have drawn upon the vast amount of material available in the stone carvings, the stucco figures, and the frescoes found throughout the Maya area.
What would a Roman architect think of the card-board streets and squares, and the stucco crescents and terraces, of an English watering-place?
The cattle to tend, their humble meal to eat; and then from the little stucco chapel rings out the bell for vespers.
The whole front is of stucco ornamentation with hieroglyphics on the piers.
They were built of earth and rubble covered with a layer of bricks or hewn stone, the whole then plastered over with stucco which, according to Spence Hardy, is composed of lime, cocoanut water, and the juice of the paragua.
The front is richly ornamented with stucco designs and hieroglyphics at each end, ninety-six glyphs in each tablet.
Whether it is carved in stone under the stucco we cannot say.
The ceiling is in panels, decorated in stucco by Mrs. Watts (née Fraser Tytler).
Near the village is the old home of the Van Oudtshoorn family, whitewash and teak, high-stoeped, with stucco designs, and the date over the door.
The simple stucco ceiling presents a central rosette, which passes over by light conventional floral forms into the general pattern of the ceiling.
In the same way with the stucco ornaments and the wall-paper pattern.
All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart.
In these old books the stucco has long since crumbled away, and we read what was sculptured in the granite.
These also have suffered much from neglect and whitewash, The whole of the façade of the lower story was originally faced with red sandstone, or perhaps with fine stucco decorated in fresco.
The approach to the interior of the mausoleum is through the central archway of the lower story, which opens into a vestibule richly ornamented with raised stucco work, and coloured in blue and gold, somewhat in the style of the Alhambra.
Rows and clusters of little brick and stucco houses were appearing along the roads.
They turned down a narrow street between grey stucco walls leprous with moss and water stains.
Beyond the wood the column turned off into a field behind a little group of stone and stucco houses that had lost their roofs.
Behind them the village, patched white and buff-color and russet and pale red with stucco walls and steep, tiled roofs, rose in an irregular pyramid to the church.
There were no paintings, stucco ornaments, Sculptured tablets, or other decoration whatever.
The building was constructed of stone, with a mortar of lime and sand, and the whole front was covered with stucco and painted.
All are covered with stucco ornaments, and one with hieroglyphics.
Around it are the remains of a rich stucco border.
The stucco is of admirable consistency, and hard as stone.
On the left they are still standing and ornamented withstucco figures.
The Indian metropolis presents an array of fine homes, bungalows and stucco villas, put up when the rupee was worth two shillings and a penny, wherein unhappiness may now dwell, because the rupee has depreciated to a shilling and fourpence.
The new, more conscious houses are alike in their very attempts at diversity: the same bungalows, the same square houses of stuccoor tapestry brick.
It was an old house with wainscotings of yellow stucco and a sad air of ruined stateliness, of a splendor that even in its prime had pretended to more than it really was.
The brooklet was still there - and the old pillared portico, where the stone showed from under the crumbling stucco and the roses had pushed their way through the stone paving and entwined the columns.
There were few indeed who understood how the weed would digest the very wood, bricks or stuccoand who packed up and moved out ahead of the troops.
I went out through the barren livingroom and took a backward glance at the scaling stucco walls of the apartmenthouse, shaking my head.
The other day Dubuque went, its weathered bricks and immaturestucco alike obliterated.
Failing such a possibility, they might, at least, be placed under the Loggia dei Lanzi, away from the repulsive grotesque of stucco and stalactite that grins at them in the grotto.
Rosina Pflauder, in Salzburg, assisted her husband in stucco work.
Just junk, mixed up with broken wood and leaves and pieces of the stucco and tiles of the garage.
The remains consist of numerous chambers, corridors, and vaults, still retaining some of their mosaic pavements and stucco roofs, with walls built into them in a very confused manner, showing different alterations.
The walls consist of brickwork, and have corridors on the inside, decorated with stucco and paintings.
The stucco ornaments and arabesque work are by Giovanni da Udine, from Raphael's designs, who took the idea from the Golden House of Nero.
The ornamental stuccowork is from the designs of Algardi.
The tomb contained originally two chambers, but the flooring of the upper one has been destroyed--thus making one--the vault of which was decorated with stucco ornaments.
The remains consist of a suite of rooms, portions built over the Clivus Victoriae, chambers with fresco and stucco decorations, and mosaic pavements, also a portion of the beautiful marble balustrade of the solarium.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stucco" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cement; composition; concrete; mortar; plaster
