The rough block was topped with black marble, and there were manacles set into each corner of the slab.
Reaching out with one hand, he brushed his fingertips against what seemed to be a rock wall, likely raw stone cut into rough blocks.
These early walls are of rough blocks of stone without mortar.
Beside the fountain was a rough block of stone with a wide bronze basin on top.
Eventually the sculptor has changed the stone from a rough block into the general shape of the finished statue.
We came to the broad stoep, to which several rough blocks of marble served as steps.
Three walls are smooth shiny plastic, the fourth, an exterior wall, is bare rough concrete block.
"There are still some rough blocks, but it has changed from a low-income area to a trendy, hip area for young people."
But ever, unheeding, they passed the rough block by.
The driver was tossing the rough blocks on to a heap of fresh-cut stone.