Subway tunnel art, maybe

Usage examples of mosaic.

From here, Alec saw that the mosaic on the floor below depicted an immense, scarlet dragon crowned with a silver crescent.

Olivia nodded dumbly, though she grew more talkative when she saw the mosaic of Salome above the Baptistry, captivated by the extraordinary allure in the slender figure in the clinging dress.

The interior of this church is generally considered one of the most beautiful interiors of Italy on account of its effective basilican plan with a crypt opening from the nave, its beautiful and rich detail, and its fine mosaics and decorations.

Bonnard was a corpulent man, a skilled ceramicist whose touch with tile nippers and mosaic tesserae was unrivaled, but he was not much of an overseer.

The light through the lozenge-shaped windows dazzled me where it fell on the mosaic floor.

The epoxy was harder than the granite itself, so they had no choice but to shatter the mosaic and let the shards tumble down into the river.

Thence, stark-naked, through the bronze doors set in greenveined marble, bathers passed into the vast frigidarium, whose marble plunge was surrounded by a mosaic promenade beneath a bronze and marble balcony.

I soon perceived that the greatest difficulty was on the surface, and in four days the whole mosaic was destroyed without the point of my pike being at all damaged.

The floor was all of bricks, and as it had been renewed at various epochs with bricks of divers colours it formed a kind of mosaic, not very pleasant to look upon.

The next day I remarked the mosaic pavement, which had been discovered twenty years before.

Now their bare, dirty feet trod the mosaic floor where Hest himself had once walked.

Mahtra had ever seen, but she was just about the straightest: her shoulders stayed square above her hips as she took-her measured steps, and her nose pointed forward only, never to either side, even when Mahtra accidently hudged her unused fork, and it skidded and clattered loudly to the mosaic floor.

At least three other bands of comparable size roamed the mosaic of habitats bordering Lake Kiboko on the east.

The room was well lighted by a number of large windows and was beautifully decorated with mural paintings and mosaics, but upon all there seemed to rest that indefinable touch of the finger of antiquity which convinced me that the architects and builders of these wondrous creations had nothing in common with the crude half-brutes which now occupied them.

I believed that from the bottom of my heart, from the depth of my soul on that night in Korad as I sat cross-legged upon my silks while the nearer moon of Barsoom raced through the western sky toward the horizon, and lighted up the gold and marble, and jeweled mosaics of my world-old chamber, and I believe it today as I sit at my desk in the little study overlooking the Hudson.