Use slab in a sentence
Sentences ending with slab
- Its window looked upon a small plat of green, in the midst of which was a single grave marked by a plain marble slab. [6]
Sentences containing slab two or more times
- It is a vast marble collonaded corridor extending around a great unoccupied square of ground; its broad floor is marble, and on every slab is an inscription--for every slab covers a corpse. [5]
More example sentences with the word slab in them
- It is covered with a marble slab which has been much worn by the lips of pilgrims. [5]
- I remember with what feeling I one day unexpectedly read on a white slab, in the little inclosure of Bonchurch, where the sea whispered as gently as the rustle of the ivy-leaves, the name of John Sterling. [4]
- He lies in Westminster Abbey, it is true, but he would probably have preferred the upper side of his own hearth-stone to the under side of the slab which covers him. [6]
- He would go to the western window of his study and look at the solitary mound with the marble slab for its head-stone. [6]
- He flung down the slab, broke it, and swooping down on her with outstretched hands shouted, "Get out! [2]
- I missed seeing the slab with the inscription _miserrimus_. [6]
- I've stood on the slab many a time. [6]
- He pushed back the door, fashioned in one great slab from a forest tree. [9]
- Sally lies in the churchyard with a slab of blue slate at her head, lichen- crusted, and leaning a little within the last few years. [6]
- If it had struck me on the head--well, the Royal Court would have buried me, and without a slab to my grave like Rullecour. [11]
- I wish Tom Scott could get his hands on this torpid old slab once--you'd see it take a different gait from this. [5]
- Our family burial place--my mother's stone cross now stands there beside my father's--was one of those bounded in the rear by the church yard wall; a marble slab set in the masonry bears the owner's name. [10]
- These things I mention from memory, but not all of them together impressed me so much as an inscription on a small slab of marble fixed in one of the walls. [6]
- Here, also, a marble slab marks the place where St. Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, found the crosses about three hundred years after the Crucifixion. [5]
- Then he holds his candle before a richly engraved picture of the Saviour, done on a messy slab of gold, and wonderfully rayed and starred with diamonds, which hangs above the hole within the altar, and his solemnity changes to lively admiration. [5]
- They keep the gates locked, and one can only see the flat slab that lies over his remains and that of his wife; but you cannot see the inscription distinctly enough to read it. [5]
- There is little doubt that but for the curse invoked upon the person who should disturb his bones, in the well-known lines on the slab which covers him, he would rest, like Napoleon, like Washington, in a fitting receptacle of marble or porphyry. [6]
- Tom jerked the door open and flung out a slab of Jim's meat, and the dogs went for it, and in two seconds he was out himself and back again and shut the door, and I knowed he'd fixed the other door too. [5]
- Now I don't complain, but confidentially I do think it was a little shabby in my descendants to give me nothing but this old slab of a gravestone--and all the more that there isn't a compliment on it. [5]
- Mr Swiveller replied by taking from his pocket a small and very greasy parcel, slowly unfolding it, and displaying a little slab of plum-cake extremely indigestible in appearance, and bordered with a paste of white sugar an inch and a half deep. [12]
- This slab serves as an altar, now. [5]
- This slab has an escutcheon which indicates three heads, which a lively imagination may conceive to be those of Moors, on a line in the upper left corner on the husband's side of a shield, which is divided by a perpendicular line. [4]
- Without waiting for a reply he pointed to a rope and a slab of limestone on the pavement below, and waved his hand unmistakably toward the Mississippi. [9]
- Before you is a marble slab, which covers the Stone of Unction, whereon the Saviour's body was laid to prepare it for burial. [5]
- And then, with a good tall slab at the head, and a foot-stone six foot away from it, it'll look just as if there was a man underneath. [6]
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