| The orchestra rattle abacuses for the sound of pattering tiles, but the dancers just prowl around tables. |
| In turn, the capitals are linked to the overlying dosserets by means of abacuses in a typically Norman form. |
| 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. |
| Abacus, plural abaci or abacuses, calculating device, probably of Babylonian origin, that was long important in commerce. |
| 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. |
| The imported toys on show at the ongoing exhibition range from fighters, space-ships and battle-ships and building-blocks to abacuses. |
