The marble clock on the mantel-piece softly chimed the half-hour, the dog rose uneasily from the hearthrug and looked at the party at the breakfast table.
The site is the final resting place of an ancient Roman ship, which sank in the sixth century AD while ferrying prefabricated marble elements for the construction of an early church.
Your house will exalt itself like King Waldemar's tower, and will be richly decorated with marble statues, like that at Prastoe. You understand what I mean.
Among the treasure trove were marble statues, elegant vases, glistening jewelry and ancient coins and what looked to be a hunk of corroded metal that no one knew quite what to do with.
On board Philip passed some of his time filling out Admiralty Form S519, " Journal for Use of Junior Officers" , a ruggedly bound volume with marbled endpapers.
Customers strip off in the entrance hall, before beginning the ritual of steam, scrub and oil massage, progressing through three marble chambers of gradually increasing humidity.
The wailing, screeching sound filled the bathroom, echoing and reverberating off the marble walls, but it sounded just as incomprehensible as ever, if not more so with all the echoes.
The water came and went quickly, but the salt in the water stays in the 900 year old walls much longer eating away at the marble and brick near the floor and even on the mosaic ceiling.
And at first, the result will be a mess, but it's much easier to hone a mess into something great than to turn a solid block of marble into a masterpiece on the first pass.
Among the treasure trove were marble statues, elegant vases, glistening jewellery and ancient coins and what looked to be a hunk of corroded metal that no one knew quite what to do with.