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Its 30-square-foot, marble-paved courtyard had its own well; its walls were tile-decorated and its windows to the interior rooms protected and ornamented in painted metal grill work.

Rachael Freed: The Importance of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010

Its 30-square-foot, marble-paved courtyard had its own well; its walls were tile-decorated and its windows to the interior rooms protected and ornamented in painted metal grill work.

Rachael Freed: The Importance of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010

Its 30-square-foot, marble-paved courtyard had its own well; its walls were tile-decorated and its windows to the interior rooms protected and ornamented in painted metal grill work.

Rachael Freed: The Importance Of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010

Its 30-square-foot, marble-paved courtyard had its own well; its walls were tile-decorated and its windows to the interior rooms protected and ornamented in painted metal grill work.

Rachael Freed: The Importance Of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010

Its 30-square-foot, marble-paved courtyard had its own well; its walls were tile-decorated and its windows to the interior rooms protected and ornamented in painted metal grill work.

Rachael Freed: The Importance of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010

Its 30-square-foot, marble-paved courtyard had its own well; its walls were tile-decorated and its windows to the interior rooms protected and ornamented in painted metal grill work.

Rachael Freed: The Importance of Telling Our Stories Rachael Freed 2010

Barefoot, worshippers knelt in the Grand Mosque’s marble-paved courtyard.

Excerpt: The Siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov 2007

The Taj Mahal and the two sandstone mosques that flank it stand in marble-paved gardens.

Taj Mahal in India: One of the 7 'New' Wonders of the World 2008

She walked from street to street, till she came to an alley swept and watered and marble-paved, where she saw a vaulted gateway, with a threshold of alabaster, and a Moorish porter standing at the door, which was of sandalwood plated with brass and furnished with a ring of silver for knocker.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

In the center of the Roman Forum, a new sounding last year uncovered the marble-paved area in the Forum of Vespasian where the Roman general (and future emperor) Titus must have displayed the treasures he carried back from the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Rome: The Marvels and the Menace Rowland, Ingrid D. 2007