Meanings of blue slate in английском

The business produces high-quality, blue slate, which is largely used in roofing.

It had three storeys capped by a steep roof of blue slate.

The house was in a wealthy suburb with roofs of blue slate and glass in the windows.

The walls and floor were made of dark blue slate that absorbed whatever light fell on it.

There, a pale rose-colored tint contrasts not too sharply with the green window-shutters and the blue slate roof.

Frantz had noticed at a distance a fanciful little turreted affair, glistening with a new blue slate roof.

We passed through a long, straight street of new red houses with blue slate roofs, all gated and gardened.

There lay the old-fashioned house, with white painted walls, and its blue slate roof, which was adorned by dormers and gables.

A high, steeply curved blue slate roof overhung the walls, providing an all-round veranda, and giving the building an acutely Eastern aspect.

Tuesday afternoon, after a quick yearbook meeting and an hour of field hockey drills, Spencer pulled up to her blue slate circular driveway.

Instead, he had been studying the gray- blue slate of the Atlantic Ocean, trying to figure out why he had been pegged as mission leader.

At Piedras Azules these slates, mingled with hornblende, cover in concordant stratification a blackish- blue slate, very fissile, and traversed by small veins of quartz.

Sally lies in the churchyard with a slab of blue slate at her head, lichen- crusted, and leaning a little within the last few years.

Where the ugly pink bricks and blue slates have of late years been introduced, they appear out of place and contemptible.