mosaic-work

First we went to the Church of St. Roch, to see a famous piece of mosaic-work there.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

At night, when the lamps, hung in this passage, shed a dim light upon the mosaic-work of the marble floors, upon the glittering inscriptions, and the massive hangings, the scene is more impressive.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The perfection to which mosaic-work has arrived may possibly hold out a strong temptation to the thoughtless to substitute the shadow for the reality.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various

All this amounts to microscopic painting, or the most elaborate mosaic-work of art.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 Various

Her letters and her books are pieces of mosaic-work, the bits of material being put together without any regular pattern, but often with a pretty effect.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

The whole inside of the dome is of mosaic-work, and set in this are mosaics of the evangelists -- colossal figures, you may know, as the pen which St. Luke holds is seven feet long.

Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

I am sure I heard long ago of some new fashion that was to be introduced, -- some Italian style, tiles, or mosaic-work, or something of the sort.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

She had begun to read a tale of sorrow, but the page was torn, and now she had finished it upon the chance-found fragment; the irregular and jagged edges fitted together like mosaic-work.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

The ice formed by the freezing of water collecting in such holes and in the fissures of the surface is a pure crystallized ice, very different in color from the ice of the great mass of the glacier produced by snow; and sometimes, after a rain and frost, the surface of a glacier looks like a mosaic-work, in consequence of such veins and cylinders or spots of clear ice with which it is inlaid.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

On leaving the chapel, we were allowed as an exceptional privilege to ascend the galleries round the interior, and look closely into the beautiful mosaic-work, most of which is in a wonderful state of preservation, though some of it is much defaced and decayed by damp.

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux