1.   About four years ago, a suitcase-sized chunk of carved limestone supporting the balcony fell to the ground below.

2.   He is building a sculpture garden in back, but meanwhile, his carved limestone figures repose in the front yard inviting one to stop.

3.   His house now stands empty, ripe papayas hanging unpicked in the trees and small dogs with huge ears sniffing around chunks of partly carved limestone.

4.   The ideal building material was carved limestone or marble, according to Bucher, but cast stone or glazed terra cotta simulated the effect at lower cost.

5.   He shakes his head and sits on a block of carved limestone thousands of years old, idle with no tourist passengers for his camel.

6.   The Swaminarayan Hindu Temple with its lacy pinnacles of carved limestone is an unexpected sight amid the sprawl of housing, highways and shopping centers of northwest London.