| The nibble marks of the stone adze were still visible, though crusted over with scale lichens in most places. |
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| And arborets of jointed stone were there, And plants of fibres fine as silkworm's thread. |
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| Concrete construction proved to be more flexible and less costly than building solid stone buildings. |
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| This was especially the case in Egypt and the Near East, where different traditions of large stone temples were already millennia old. |
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| Aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, being constructed along a slight downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick or concrete. |
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| In the colonia, Constantine's reign was a time of prosperity and a number of extensive stone town houses of the period have been excavated. |
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| The remains of the rebuilt castles, now in stone, are visible on either side of the River Ouse. |
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| The first stone minster church was badly damaged by fire in the uprising, and the Normans built a minster on a new site. |
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| I'll see your defective gallbladder and raise you one heart murmur and a kidney stone. |
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| Many have illusionistic carved stone frames, which make them seem like windows to the outdoors. |
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| The early castles were simple earth and timber constructions, later replaced with stone structures. |
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| Together they laid the foundation stone of St Augustine's Monastery in Limoges. |
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| Northwest of Ambion Hill, just across the northern tributary of the Sence, a flag and memorial stone mark Richard's Field. |
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| The tombstone is deeply incised with a cross, and consists of a rectangular block of white Swaledale fossil stone, quarried in North Yorkshire. |
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| Between the early 16th and the late 17th centuries, an original tradition of stone tented roof architecture developed in Russia. |
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| Many churches had concealed their vestments and their silver, and had buried their stone altars. |
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| Paul's Cathedral a safe refuge, with its thick stone walls and natural firebreak in the form of a wide, empty surrounding plaza. |
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| The stone bridge over the River Skerne was designed by the Durham architect Ignatius Bonomi. |
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| In 1861, Napoleon's remains were entombed in a porphyry stone sarcophagus in the crypt under the dome at Les Invalides. |
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| Two quarries were chosen from a list of 102, with the majority of the stone coming from the former. |
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| However, the stone soon began to decay due to pollution and the poor quality of some of the stone used. |
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| He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminium kits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish. |
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| The construction of cathedrals and castles advanced building technology, leading to the development of large stone buildings. |
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| Where available, Roman brick and stone buildings were recycled for their materials. |
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| Just before 1000 there was a great wave of building stone churches all over Europe. |
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| By 1071 he had started the building of Chepstow Castle, the first castle in Britain built of stone, near the mouth of the Wye. |
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| The stone tools in these levels include Still Bay points, beautifully shaped thin lanceolate spear points, flaked on both sides. |
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| The foundation stone of the Folkestone Converter Station was laid in February 2017, by Jesse Norman, Minister for Industry and Energy. |
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| One could see part of the dimly lit court where under an enclosed poplar two soldiers on a stone bench were playing lansquenet. |
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| The stone from the Cotswolds used to rebuild St Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire in 1666 was brought all the way down from Radcot. |
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| A high pillar of stone called Bheem-lat, or the Tealee, or oilman's lat or staff. |
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| Beer stone was a popular kind of limestone for medieval buildings in southern England. |
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| In a region short of building stone, local clay deposits and timber provided the raw materials for brick manufacture. |
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| A series of Bronze Age stone cairns are closely associated with the standing stones. |
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| The ditch was later widened, in the mid 13th century, and a stone wall built around much of the perimeter of the town. |
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| Its spire, built of the weak local stone, collapsed and was rebuilt during the 19th century. |
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| William Hammond laid the first foundation stone for the new building on 18 May. |
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| In the 13th and 14th centuries there was fortified house near the river, probably a stone tower, held by the Denyas family. |
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| I passed by a ruined tomb in the midst of a garden-way, Upon whose letterless stone seven blood-red anemones lay. |
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| A totally different liassic stone is Blue Lias, a whitish-grey stone obtainable only in relatively small pieces and difficult to dress. |
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| Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy, looking for the philosopher's stone. |
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| This may have been an accubitum with magical qualities of procreation for sterile husbands who slept on this stone. |
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| An adder stone is a type of stone, usually glassy, with a naturally occurring hole through it. |
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| I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them. |
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| The gleam of the land is in its rocks, the fine-grained argillaceous rocks, here, not purple or grey, but green of living stone. |
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| I was nonplussed, I stared at my teacher, never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference, stone ataraxy. |
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| Or malachite in green coprolitic stools like small stone turds becrept a brassy green. |
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| Out of the benben stone, on its substructure representing the primeval hill, developed the religious symbol which we know as the obelisk. |
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| Wherefore takinge vp a bigge stone, he began againe with greater blowes to beate at the doore. |
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| Stone may be blastable, depending on the particular material's durability. Hard, volcanic stone, such as granite, is best suited to blasting. |
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| Along the riverbanks lie enchanted old gardens, with blueberried ivy spilling over their gray stone walls. |
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| It had not helped the duke to build himself a cannonproof stone chamber to sleep in for dread of vengeance after the assassination of Orleans. |
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| In Lent noblemen and carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves. |
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| My centuria slept in one of the stables, under the stone mangers where the names of the cavalry chargers were still inscribed. |
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| The walls are of cob, the external ones being about 2 feet 8 inches thick, and rest on a stone foundation. |
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| Each had a stone in his grasp in an instant, and simultaneously they cobbed at Master Bunnie. |
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| Rudi Jass has developed a distinctly complementary style with copper, corten steel bronze, glass and stone. |
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| Behind a cowyard of shattered stone pavement and cracked mud stood the farm itself, and around it extended the fields belonging thereto. |
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| In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. |
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| The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. |
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| A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert. |
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| If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound. |
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| We made our 'dingers' out of truck tyre inner tubes that were heavy-duty rubber that could shoot a stone a very long distance. |
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| Karli shook himself, drove home the last nail with a flat stone, straightened up. |
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| Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us. |
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| What would evene, if an eagle that is carried by the course of the wind, should let a stone fall from its talons. |
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| There was about a stone of potatoes in the centre of the table, bursting flourily through their skins, the steam rising from them. |
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| On a sunny stone near a foresty bed of asparagus I sat down at last, tired, and a little dispirited. |
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| Lithic analysts employ geomorphometric methods in order to characterize, measure and analyze stone tools with newly invented mediums. |
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| Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter is promised. |
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| Convincing fussy eaters to try new foods is like trying to get blood from a stone. |
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| Convincing fussy eaters to try new foods is like trying to get blood out of a stone. |
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| She'd been picturing some Gormenghastian monstrosity, a mass of dark stone and hulking, spiked towers. |
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| Nearly everything was glass in the frontage of this fairy mart, and its contents glittered like the hammochrysos stone. |
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| Klein, who has worked extensively on ancient stone tools, describes the stone tool kit of archaic hominids as impossible to categorize. |
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| It was as if the Neanderthals made stone tools, and were not much concerned about their final forms. |
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| He argues that almost everywhere, whether Asia, Africa or Europe, before 50,000 years ago all the stone tools are much alike and unsophisticated. |
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| The Neanderthals continued to use Mousterian stone tool technology and possibly Chatelperronian technology. |
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| Features such as dry stone walls, for example, are there as a result of sheep farming. |
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| In Neolithic times, the Lake District was a major source of stone axes, examples of which have been found all over Britain. |
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| Some of the earliest stone circles in Britain are connected with this industry. |
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| When weathered, the colour of buildings made or faced with this stone is often described as honey or golden. |
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| Many grand houses and public buildings, such as the National Gallery, are constructed from Portland stone. |
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| North of Italy, where masonry construction was never extinguished, stone construction was replacing timber in important structures. |
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| In future honings, you'll assume the tip is touching the stone on the back when it is, in fact, above the stone's surface. |
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| The site also had included approximately 200 stone tools and 300 animal bones. |
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| Stone tools including a stone carved knife were found along with the ancient hominin remains. |
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| Additional findings announced on 27 March 2008 included a mandible fragment, stone flakes, and evidence of animal bone processing. |
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| Periglaciation in the Eastern Drakensberg and Lesotho Highlands produced solifluction deposits, blockfields, blockstreams and stone garlands. |
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| The same lack of typical Beaker association applies to the about thirty found stone battle axes. |
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| They were also skilled manufacturers of a range of other types of stone tools and ornaments, including projectile points, beads, and statuettes. |
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| But what allowed forest clearance on a large scale was the polished stone axe above all other tools. |
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| If this were the case, it would advance the earliest known stone structure at the monument by some 500 years. |
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| In straightening the stone he moved it about half a metre from its original position. |
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| The last restoration was carried out in 1963 after stone 23 of the Sarsen Circle fell over. |
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| One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest stone circle in Europe. |
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| Its monuments comprise the henge and associated long barrows, stone circles, avenues, and a causewayed enclosure. |
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| The two large stones at the Southern Entrance had an unusually smooth surface, likely due to having stone axes polished on them. |
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| Nearer the middle of the monument are two additional, separate stone circles. |
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| Another major change in religious practice was the use of stone monuments to represent gods and goddesses. |
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| This talk brought us up to the house that was a-building, not a large one, which stood at the end of a beautiful orchard surrounded by an old stone wall. |
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| The heights dizzied her, spiralling stone promising faintful vistas. |
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| They found at once, and there was a short sharp run, during which Linda and Tony, both in a somewhat showing-off mood, rode side by side over the stone walls. |
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| On such analogous reasoning it is not difficult to see why the aetites stone, with another rattling inside it, should have been thought helpful to a pregnant woman. |
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| Innovation started in the 3rd or 2nd century BC with the development of Roman concrete as a readily available adjunct to, or substitute for, stone and brick. |
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| It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors. |
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| The regularity of the latter favours use as a source for masonry, either as a primary building material or as a facing stone, over other construction. |
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| A third building phase followed directly and lasted to about 1300 BC, after which the site was covered with layers of stone and clay, apparently deliberately, and abandoned. |
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| There was a stone basin of clear but motionless water, and the heavy reddish-and-yellow arches went round the courtyard with warrior-like fatality, their bases in dark shadow. |
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| Given that by this time it was common for castles to be built in stone, and that many barons had expanded or refortified their castles, this was not an easy task. |
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| According to beliefs, the pyramidion on its apex represents the benben stone, an ancient object that was thought to receive the first rays of the rising sun. |
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| Pottery, stone projectile points, and possible houses were also found. |
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| The identifying characteristic of Neolithic technology is the use of polished or ground stone tools, in contrast to the flaked stone tools used during the Paleolithic era. |
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| On 14 June 2007, during excavations for road building, some of the original stone sleepers used by the railway in 1825 were discovered intact near Lingfield Point. |
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| Borrowing money from him is like getting blood from a stone! |
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| A fabricator is used to direct a sharp blow to the surface of the stone. |
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| At first it was accompanied by a second stone, which is no longer visible. |
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| The buprestid Capnodis tenebrionis L. is a major root pest of cherries and other stone fruits in semiarid areas of southern Europe, around the Mediterranean, and Asia Minor. |
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| Edwin ordered the small wooden church be rebuilt in stone but was killed in 633 and the task of completing the stone minster fell to his successor Oswald. |
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| At Folly Bridge in Oxford the remains of an original Saxon structure can be seen, and medieval stone bridges such as Newbridge and Abingdon Bridge are still in use. |
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| Until you sign it, the terms of the contract aren't yet carved in stone. |
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| In 1550 stone altars were replaced by wooden communion tables, a very public break with the past, as it changed the look and focus of church interiors. |
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| He lived in an elegant stone house, a part of the Imaret of Haseki Sultan. |
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| Instead, they began the construction of large wooden or stone circles, with many hundreds being built across Britain and Ireland over a period of a thousand years. |
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| In sunshine as vivid as revelation, Linden Avery knelt on the stone of a low-walled coign like a balcony high in the outward face of Revelstone's watchtower. |
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| There is an almost invisible collet that secures the stone to the ring. |
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| Aubrey Burl suggests dates of 3000 BC for the central cove, 2900 BC for the inner stone circle, 2600 BC for the outer circle and henge, and around 2400 BC for the avenues. |
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| During the 18th century, many stone and brick road bridges were built from new or to replace existing bridges both in London and along the length of the river. |
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| There are also an estimated 5,000 hut circles still surviving although many have been raided over the centuries by the builders of the traditional dry stone walls. |
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| Picture signal break-up is such a corner stone of the public viewing of active events, if they Steadycam the whole thing they'd have to crappify it in post-production. |
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| The area is defined by the bedrock of Jurassic limestone that creates a type of grassland habitat rare in the UK and that is quarried for the golden coloured Cotswold stone. |
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| In 1633, Charles appointed Laud as Archbishop of Canterbury and started making the Church more ceremonial, replacing the wooden communion tables with stone altars. |
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| This area has many other earthworks and erected stone monuments from the Neolithic and Early Bronze periods, including the Dorset Cursus, an earthwork 10 km. |
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| The fast resetting action also helps produce a better job of plowing since large areas of unplowed land are not left as when lifting a plow over a stone. |
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| She halted her pacing steps as the ugly significance of Nicholas Caulfield's pending arrival washed over her. Ruin. Destitution. Doom settled like a heavy stone in her chest. |
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| Rectilinear stone structures, indicative of a change in housing to the Roman style are visible from the mid to late 1st century AD at Brixworth and Quinton. |
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| A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake. |
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| Members of the House of Lords use the Peers' Entrance in the middle of the Old Palace Yard front, which is covered by a stone carriage porch and opens to an entrance hall. |
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| In time, the tribunate became a stepping stone to higher office. |
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