freestone - use in sentences

Preposition: from

  • quarry: The style is that generally known as the Elizabethan, and the material, dressed red freestone from the local quarry.

Converse of object

  • dress: The style is that generally known as the Elizabethan, and the material, dressed red freestone from the local quarry.
  • chamfer: Dwarf foundation walls topped by chamfered freestone, supporting a timber superstructure; six glazed windows on either side.
  • find: The excellent white freestone found in this township, is already noticed.

Adjective modifier

  • pale: However, the window to the east is in pale buff freestone, the others in red.
  • yellow: East wall: east window in yellow freestone, wholly a Victorian or later renewal.
  • gray: The gray freestone may be stone looted from Roman ruins.
  • red: The red freestone found here is similar to that obtained at St. Bees.
  • white: The 18th-century buildings of Bath are mostly built of Bath Stone, a white freestone.
  • good: Good durable white freestone and limestone is quarried here, but its principal mineral is coal, which it produces in great abundance.

Modifies a noun

  • dressing: It is built of red brick, relieved by freestone dressings.
  • quarry: Here are some excellent freestone quarries, which supplied the material for Wentworth House.
  • quoin: The walls are of coursed rubble with rough-cast rendering with freestone quoins and dressings.
  • block: In fabric ' A ' with random, large, grayish, fine-grained freestone blocks for quoins.
  • ashlar: This early work is of square, dressed, freestone ashlars.

Noun used with modifier

  • buff-yellow: Above is a rectangular window of two lights with hollow chamfers all in buff-yellow freestone.
  • mustard-yellow: Three round-headed windows, the arch stones of the more westerly two in gray stone but with some jambs in mustard-yellow freestone.

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