England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marble is not alike in all countries.
There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrate. For me, it is like a mythical place.
The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
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