"He was a president," Nudge said, trailing one tan hand along the smooth cement.

The balcony rail showed no traces of Ted's hop across it, nor did the courtyard give evidence of a landing, when Cardona studied the smooth cement with a flashlight.

It tried to climb a hydro pole, but its claws could get no purchase on the smooth cement.

Stroud built an obelisk around 6 m high from burnt brick plastered with smooth cement, and attached two brass plaques sent from London.

Indy gives it an experimental pull and the Ark slides across the smooth cement.

It was fifty feet across and ten feet deep, perfectly circular, plastered and floored in smooth cement.

Rachel's shoes hissed on the smooth cement.

Our route led straight down a broad boulevard, its surface smooth white cement.

The coupe rolled forward, hit smooth cement and came to a stop.

Vaseline and plastic combine with cement and steel - pink and gray, rough and smooth, hard and soft - the materials sustaining a narrative of formal eloquence.