Complications arose as the heavy marble shell sank into the spongy subsoil, and then the Mexican Revolution intervened.

A simple white stone and marble rectangular shell surrounds the original building that contains the image.

The interior, although impressive in scale, is a marble shell, a sadly un-exotic resting place for the royal Norman tombs.

She felt like the marble shell of a statue; the heat from his hand was the only heat in her body.

Charles Gwathmey's 1970's reconstruction of Whig Hall reveals what looks like one of his modernist houses tucked inside a classical marble shell.

There he sat, yes, Oro himself, upon the dais beneath the overhanging marble shell.

Here, in the picture, Oro waved his hand and from behind the marble shell appeared Yva herself, gloriously apparelled, wearing royal ornaments and with her train held by waiting ladies.

I moved down a short corridor, glancing to my right into a small bathroom with a sink shaped like a sunken marble shell, gold-plated fixtures, gold-flecked mirrored tiles on one wall.

The building, with a garden full of fountains and orange trees, is built on top of the still-standing stone and marble shell of the 1st century BC Theatre of Marcellus, which resembles a mini Colosseum.

It consists of a marble bi-valve shell with three bees of the same material resting on it.