| The imported toys on show at the ongoing exhibition range from fighters, space-ships and battle-ships and building-blocks to abacuses. |
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| Dr Jones believes they may have counted using the horizontal abacuses prevalent in other European nations. |
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| Abacus, plural abaci or abacuses, calculating device, probably of Babylonian origin, that was long important in commerce. |
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| In turn, the capitals are linked to the overlying dosserets by means of abacuses in a typically Norman form. |
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| The orchestra rattle abacuses for the sound of pattering tiles, but the dancers just prowl around tables. |
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| Nevertheless, according to these mathematicians, people with her abilities do not grow on trees, or even abacuses. |
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| I saw that in the Tokyo railway station, many of the ticket sellers actually use abacuses. |
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| That is why we watch TV instead of playing with abacuses. |
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| But Chinatown-shopkeeper abacuses line the walls, brass lion's-head door knockers snarl from the backs of chairs, and a kaleidoscope of petaled lampshades has turned half the ceiling into a lotus pond. |
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| The abacuses all have different widths, obviously in order to connect the various heights of the columns, in order to put all the surfaces for the pointed arches on the same level. |
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| The depth of the space and its lack of natural light were corrected by adding abacuses and unusual walls of light, which have become the project's signature. |
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