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Sentence Examples She begins to experiment, creating casts of mortuary slabs as well as mundane household objects. Whiteread cast them from two mortuary slabs which she had bought from a salvage yard in Hackney. Start at the lowest rocks and climb the slabs above until stopped by a smooth bulge. Great marble slabs clawed their way out of the earth, gigantic and marvellous, revelling in their beauty. The slabs or sheet bars are then conditioned prior to being hot rolled on a finishing mill. Between killings Uzi wolfed down enormous slabs of apple pie and chocolate mousse cake. There were also dense slabs of chocolate fondant, and an apple croustade with a light, frilly crust that melted to butter in your mouth. My lunch consisted of bread and cheese, two small slabs of beef and two apples and water, all of which I shared with Khalon. The mussels bathe in a chilli and wine concoction, perfect for dipping the slabs of brown bread that accompany the meals. Plastic bags and clothes lay beside the washing slabs, seemingly abandoned. The entrance doors are huge wooden slabs, engraved in sign language by Durban craftspeople, depicting the 27 themes of the Bill of Rights. Now we were before the great hall itself, and I looked up at timber walls made of slabs of oak four times my height. Load up the ute with two spare tyres and a few slabs of beer, we're off on a virtual road trip through the history of life. Fresh concrete is then poured over the slabs on site to produce a floor some 10 inches thick. The substance of the building is in-situ concrete, in the form of columns and slabs. The steel is cast in ingots, and the ingots are rolled on a slabbing mill or a blooming mill into slabs or sheet bars. Wood composition sheathing may be glued to polyurethane and isocyanurate slabs of insulation in the same way as EPS panels. The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together. The first Quay slabs were cast in August and fitting of bollards and fenders along the Quay Wall are proceeding. They were set in mortar, and a smooth surface was then obtained by using large slabs of flat stone. Show More Sentences Concrete slabs were hoisted into position, and the gaps fleshed out with crudely plastered breeze blocks. A hairless hand scooped the slabs up and raised them to the face as the creature sniffed at the steaks. This method made it necessary to place vertical steel pins through the top and bottom slabs of the deck box girder. Heavy slabs had been laid atop the ground over their coffins to discourage body snatchers. How do you go about branding a product that conjures up slabs of flesh displayed behind a spotless glass counter? Unless protected, medieval brasses are pitted by their droppings, as are tomb slabs. It is a typical stone row, comprising a line of upright stone slabs, constructed about 2000 bc as a ceremonial site. The faces of both slabs are then coated with multiple layers of thin-film gold or dielectric reflectors. Take a fresh Penny Bun and, retaining the stem as well as the cap, slice it vertically into slabs 5 or 6mm thick. These slabs may have been used in the manufacture of pemmican, for pounding dried meat into a powder or for breaking bison bones. After hours in the desert sun under body armor, the chow-halls insult them with massive ice-cold slabs of non-alcoholic beer. Like the other known sections of the aqueduct system, it is covered with stone slabs, which would have served as a pathway for foot passengers. Plastic hydronic piping is cast into the concrete floor slabs, which is used as the finished ceiling, with suspended indirect lighting. Taller rectangular slabs were used to fence off circumambulatory paths surrounding the stupa. Above the chimney lies the Black Pyramid, a triangle of notoriously unstable slabs of ice and rock at about 24,500 feet. One man with a red tail invited people to scatter bread inside a dove he chalked onto the stone slabs. Before long, these one-metre-high solid slabs will be topped with another two metres of chain-link fence. Holy words, written in stone, fill marble slabs housed in 729 stupas at the Kuthodaw Pagoda. Rectangular in plan, 4.47 m. long by 1.82 m wide, it is constructed in the usual fashion with vertical slabs infilled with dry-stone walling. Made of 2in-thick slabs of precisely jointed oak, it spirals up, entirely self-supporting, without even a central pillar. Show More Sentences Depending on the type of masonry sealer, some will also work to seal concrete slabs. Overground there are ring forts and burial monuments, round towers and high crosses and always the flat limestone slabs with cracks, or grikes. This book is somewhat dense, but if you like big slabs of no-nonsense political history, it is a feast. He supplies the building trade and hardware stores with patio slabs, kerbing, wall capping, panel fencing and sills. They are full of cracked or misaligned paving slabs or kerbstones, running fissures and uneven surfaces everywhere. I plan to use fiber concrete, without rebar or mesh, and to pour the driveway in slabs. They are supplied with marble slabs of African alabaster that were probably excavated from one of the many ancient sites in and around Rome. William was entrusted with manoeuvring these slabs into position and stood just to the rear of the wagon. It can be used to strengthen reinforced and prestressed beams, girders, and slabs to provide additional flexural strength. The construction of the new building is a reinforced concrete frame with suspended concrete floor slabs. The heavy slabs laid to cover drains along the tracks hinder cleaning and have become a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Most structures can be explained by eastward retreat of the Pacific and Philippine slabs and southward retreat of the Sunda slab. On large canvas slabs, he uses a thick rust-colored paint and applies objects such as antler-shaped branches, a door latch or a metal chain. Resined slabs are becoming the norm for a lot of quarries and there is no additional cost to the consumer. Patios can also be built with a thickened edge, although frost heave may affect these slabs. I liked the negative space in the birdbath, and had been using it to drape clay slabs for large ceramic plates in my personal work. The bathroom and the floor were supposed to be retiled and new slabs laid on the driveway, she said. Even so, a number of crosses and grave slabs from northern England do incorporate warrior imagery and scenes from Scandinavian heroic culture. The slabs, along with other Assyrian documents, showed Sennacherib's version of events and tell how he laid waste 46 strong cities across Judah. The chaste but imposing exterior is revetted with a grid of limestone slabs and punctuated by broad wooden doors. Show More Sentences But the damaged slabs along the footpaths and the broken road dividers have not been repaired. Another of its committees is currently working on similar guidelines for footings, foundation walls, and floor slabs. The fragments include slabs of planking, ribs, stem posts, a keel, even part of a rudder, as well as used and unused vessel fastenings. Office ceilings are made of thin, ribbed concrete slabs painted white and curving towards the natural light. The breakfast hall floor has large slabs of Devon stone, sections of which had risen up because of water damage. The rhythmically spaced silver-brown slabs of gel evoke fish scales, while the surface bubbles reinforce the aqueous appearance. He also found a method to make slabs using fly ash, another waste material generated by thermal power generation plants. This means that large slabs of the text, transcribed from recorded interviews, are in Arrernte and in his idiosyncratic Aboriginal English. In Sejima's work, the envelope becomes fabric stretching between differently-sized slabs. My favorite, though, was a simple foie gras terrine, cut in velvet pink slabs, with dense deposits of artichoke and rutabaga in the middle. The English word barbecue also comes from the Taino term for the rock slabs on which they baked bread. Another innovation is a system of steel catenary cables embedded in floor slabs. Stuff it into a red bell pepper instead of sandwiching it between two slabs of Wonder bread. Obviously the authors had a unique opportunity to examine the surfaces of large rock slabs to analyze in detail trace-fossil taphonomy. Small vessels had been sunk outright, huge slabs of stone breaking their backs, while larger ships had been cratered and shattered by the rocks. One approach is to place loose backfill under structurally supported slabs. The fibers from used carpeting can be added to concrete slabs to help prevent them from cracking. The concrete used for the floor slabs contains 15 to 25 percent fly ash, a waste material from coal-burning power plants. If you are building large slabs, could you survive without a laser screed or a power trowel? You know using steroids or human growth hormone to add slabs of muscle is cheating. Show More Sentences The royal tombs are layered pyramidal structures built of massive stone slabs. But he used melted polythene plastics as binding material instead of cement in preparing slabs. In winter it was fantastic fishing roach, chub, silver bream and slabs with the odd barbel and carp. Cobwebs coated the shelves, which were piled with scrolls, leaves, and stone slabs. He hand-built many works from slabs, and also had forms thrown to his specifications on the potter's wheel. The floor was tiled with marble paving and a large, square rug lay over it, almost covering the shiny slabs. Often, the stones split along the bedding planes, especially on thinly bedded slabs. He showed how to use the finely grained slabs for lithography, a technique for printing ink on paper using a flat, greased stone. Sequentially numbered slabs can be kept together through the finishing process to provide matched patterns in the final installation. Listed also are over 600 tombstones and grave slabs from the old cemetery in Aghamore. We had no forks or plates, so we hacked off big slabs of cake, put them in emesis basins, and ate them with tongue depressors. As we walked on, we came to a mesa with slabs of rock and about a hundred metates. These consisted of more or less Corbusian slabs raised on columns, mixed with low-rise blocks in open landscaped parks. The roof of the inner chamber consists of a corbelled ceiling that was built with huge slabs of rocks with small rocks filling the gaps. The conclusion is that reinforced concrete flat slabs could be designed using torsionless moment fields using the discontinuity line analysis. Characteristically, they feature pyramidal, domed or conical roofs built up of corbeled limestone slabs. The subject of vapor barriers or retarders beneath concrete slabs on grade has long been controversial. Eventually, slabs will be edged, planed, and given a specified surface finish. In February last year, the church had a series of thefts of its Yorkshire stone slabs. Roofs could be of horizontal capstones to make the so-called dolmens, or of oversailing courses of slabs, which are known as corbelled vaults. Show More Sentences Shakily I follow the same course, yanking myself into the space between two broad slabs. Additional options include planing the slabs to a certain molding profile, turning them on a lathe, and custom carving. Some of the walls border Leeds City Council owned houses and traditional coping stones have been replaced with white concrete slabs. It had two slabs of TNT over the chest and in the small of the back and was made of blue nylon. There was no roof, while anything of value inside had long gone, from the original floor slabs and fireplaces to the lintels and stair treads. Later in the day, the army dug out fresh trenches and put large concrete slabs in front of them so they could never be moved by bare hands alone. The first visible layer or course consists almost entirely of marble slabs laid as headers that span the entire thickness of the wall. Also, when slabs won't accept chemical stains, they can be sprayed with white Spray Top and then successfully be stained. A grassy bay separates this buttress from the fine slabs on Cir Mhor's SW face. It's one of those insulated cool box things with gel-pack slabs you put in the freezer for a couple of days before your shopping trip. Both of the metal slabs on his hips unfolded into their gun modes and began blasting away the enemy units two at a time. Thin precast-concrete slabs monumentally define the approach from the nineteenth-century city, and its new memorial square. As a teenager I worked in a pub and had to cut big slabs of the stuff for ploughman's lunches. They waste vast slabs of the country's labour-force on bureaucracy and paperwork and so make the country poorer. Some slabs seem to depict wooden crosses complete with skeuomorphic wooden features such as the carpenter's nail heads. Using underglazes, teenagers draw compositions on plaster slabs, and slip is then poured over the designs. Water flows through radiant tubes in floor slabs for both heating and cooling. Like a miniature version of Earth's plate tectonics, thin slabs of basalt crust jostle about, driven by the heat below. Many of the stone paving slabs are 200 years old and too expensive for Leeds City Council to replace. His human and animal figures, reduced to mounds, slabs and tubes, possess a quiet grace. Show More Sentences At the Tileco warehouse they have all these precut granite slabs held together with heavy straps. Massive concrete floor slabs provide thermal storage, collecting heat and giving it off again later on. He pushed it and the next sound heard was of two marble slabs being rubbed together. The walled back garden is laid in concrete paving slabs with flowerbeds in the border. Concrete paving slabs, available from the big DIY chains, can look almost as good as the real thing. Many bones then languish in climate-controlled storage, on steel slabs like mortuaries, waiting once again. Rigid board insulation is made to be used in confined spaces such as exterior walls, basements, foundation and stem walls, concrete slabs, and cathedral ceilings. The majority of the slabs that constituted the wall were demolished and used for highway gravel. In some instances, flat clay slabs have been found with the oblong symbols for numbers impressed on their surfaces together with many impressions of cylinder seals. As they rip into the slabs, saliva, sand, and sweat begin seasoning the meat. On top the slabs are rendered over to seal them, then covered with oiled mulberry paper to leave a perfectly smooth yellow continuous surface turned up at the skirting. Sometimes you just want to watch four people in tight black leathers whacking out two minute slabs of energetic thrash, and this they do perfectly. Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall, seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn. Bricks, slabs and decking can be laid in patterns for decorative effect. The video featured ideas on how to set up a clay-building studio on a budget, and gave examples on how to best use coils, slabs and simple armatures. The organization has also designed and sells an oilseed press, a hay baler, and equipment for making concrete pit-latrine slabs, roofing tiles, and bricks. This may have resulted from a voltage increase between two dielectric plates, for example, slabs of limestone below the site that are separated by a thermoelectric material. The curds are pushed into two banks, cut into slabs to allow more of the whey to drain off, flipped and stacked three times into ever taller piles. There's lush slabs of slow-roasted pork belly and meltingly tender duck legs, a piquant escabeche of red mullet and a truly remarkable lemon tart to finish. As he rounded a bend on a winding road, three slabs fell off. Show More Sentences Locals quickly joined the effort to help unearth the lumps and unveil first corners, and then entire slabs, of tombstones. From there, we traversed across ledges and slabs toward the next belay. You can walk over rough slabs, cannon-ball boulders, limpets and bladderwrack to delight in the over-the-waves-views all the way to the white cliffs of Flamborough Head. It also looked as if one of them at least, the one closest to the church wall, was of someone important as the grave was built of carefully mortared stone slabs. The weight of the chair back is equivalent to two paving slabs. The court heard that Mr Baker was injured when marble slabs fell on him. Huge slabs of raw meat were roasting slowly within the scorching flames. This chef is a meat man, of course, an aggressive, boisterous character used to spending long hours muscling chickens and slabs of beef over a hot open flame. It runs along a line referred to in the evidence as the 260 elevation line at the bottom of the slope and a short distance to the west of the proposed school foundation slabs. A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks. Some have vertical slats of granite or wood to ventilate the interior, others have slotted slabs, and the pitched roofs are tiled or covered in stone pavers. The maples planted in the grassy border along the street were growing too large for their confinement, their roots buckling the uniform gray slabs of the sidewalk. The five songs are brambly, muscular math-metal slabs, but listening to pre-recorded versions of them is like looking at graffiti in an art gallery. Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn. The thick slabs of sourdough take a while to cook, but, as owner Jim points out with a grin that is equal parts pleasure and surprise, nobody seems to mind waiting. The nine-foot long boulder, deeply veined with coloured sandstone sediments, has been cut into three four-inch thick slabs using massive diamond-toothed saws. These visualizations show how heat follows the path of least resistance, through conductive materials like aluminum window frames or concrete structural slabs. The high degree of calcination of the bone ashes in both kitchens and the heat-altered hearth slabs give evidence of high temperatures, implying a good supply of oxygen. To protect the tendons, calcium chloride and other materials containing chloride must not be used as admixtures in concrete slabs that are to be post-tensioned. Part of Maj Riordan's job was to break up the slabs of chocolate with a hammer so that it could be put in the parcels before they were wrapped in calico to be sent abroad. Show More Sentences Generally, stone slabs should not crack if they are laid correctly. It includes vast deposits of coal, limestone, slabs, oil and natural gas, manganese, asbestos, iron ore, gold, diamonds, graphite, tungsten, steatitic, feldspar, and silica. One can still see camel caravans head to the desert and bring back slabs of salt, a round-trip that would last almost a month, crossing the unforgiving Sahara. I re-boiled water to make our morning's broth, and cut slabs of the smoked deer haunch, and brought out eggs, and we ate of this as the darkness began to fall. Galia Amsel, working with translucence and opacity, pushes grey and white glass to its densest, tapering her squared slabs towards narrow, light edges. I shamelessly adapted the idea for an inner-city roof garden that never caught the sun by painting the concrete floor slabs with black and white stone paint. These charnel facilities consisted of a shallow limestone-lined pit, made from a single layer of horizontal slabs that were laid out on a prepared subsoil surface. In most of the urban areas, the avenue trees are choked to death as the tree base is completely covered by concrete slabs, leaving little space for aeration. Even the use of stone cladding is another area where the machine-sawn masonry seldom lives up to expectations and slabs of stone can often look like concrete. In many cases, slabs and setts are poorly laid with considerable discrepancies from paviour to paviour giving an uneven surface which is abnormal. A keeper threw in huge slabs of raw meat, and the beasts tore them apart in front of us, while we were fed interesting titbits of information by another keeper. However, the rolling machinery that turned slabs of steel into plates and ingots was the main source of accidents in which men were caught in machinery. We work until nearly midnight filleting the fish and giving it away in great slabs to the 200 strong flotilla of visiting yachts that crowd the marina in summer. Ditto the three-mushroom risotto, a wicked sludge of porcini, portobello, and shiitake mushrooms, bound together with slabs of Parmesan and more vats of white-truffle oil. When large blocks of marble, limestone or sandstone are transported from the mines to industrial plants, tens of diamond frame saws are used to slice them into slabs. While we were waiting for these to air dry, I used the time to have the students research the uses of clay slabs in cuneiform writing and pictographic writing. He still found a slot for Sir Paul McCartney, and huge slabs of dad rock. You can hang pots on the walls, grow plants in old paint tubs and watch the daisies and dandelions sprout between the paving slabs of the front path. Their haul included golden crowns, precious chalices, tabots, altar slabs, beautiful processional crosses, dozens of fine manuscripts and his hair. They were able to deploy facts and figures to sharpen the journalism, challenging those politicians who spoke in pre-fabricated slabs of argument. Show More Sentences Soon bored with the rash of glass and steel slabs, deracinated architects could only turn to differences of shape and texture to stand for advancement. Visitors picnicked and bathed on the flat slabs of rock between the eight broad strands on the falls, and then worshipped at the small temples enshrining hero stones. And when finishers sprinkle water on slabs during the finishing process, they cause air entrainments of 12 percent or more to be produced on slab surfaces. He said paving slabs had been tipped up and there was mud everywhere. This is where Albie's new sack barrow was called into use and Brian had the pleasure of moving these slabs to the top of the plot. In January 1877, a great storm swept huge ironstone slabs from the sea bed onto Happisburgh beach. Ongoing accretion at a subduction zone, and the obduction of intact ophiolite slabs, are not considered to be collision. Construction began in 2015 with the floor slabs and metal frames being erected in June. Over the years, stone slabs and masonry replaced the barbed wire. Novaculite stones, also known as Arkansas whetstones, are the slabs of natural rock most of us grew up with. More than 4000 tonnes of concreate base slabs have been placed to provide the foundation. A quick estimate shows that some 20 large slabs, measuring approximately 5'x3', and some 10 small slabs 2'x2' ap proximately have been taken. Summa crusta of silex or lava polygonal slabs, one to three feet in diameter and eight to twelve inches thick, were laid on top of the rudens. Skins were no longer sheet metal riveted to a structure, but milled from large slabs of alloy. Crews then spray slabs with RCC Surface Pro, a silica-rich troweling aid specifically engineered for low slump concrete. The structures are associated with graves of rectangular shape flanked by vertical slabs, as also found in central Ethiopia. They cut big slabs of skin with underlying fat to prepare muktuk, which they later ate both raw and boiled. The boxes were formed from thin slabs with joints carefully sealed with clay to render them waterproof. The structures are associated with graves of rectangular shape that are flanked by vertical slabs, as also found in central Ethiopia. The John Klein slabs contain very fine-grained sediments but are cut through with pale veins of what could be calcium sulphate. Show More Sentences The straight mold also will increase LTV Steel's production of high quality, continuously cast slabs by over 16,000 tons per month. Relief sculpture may also decorate steles, upright slabs, usually of stone, often also containing inscriptions. The Australians murder a few slabs of beer and the New Zealanders murder a few vowels. Common 375-ml cans are called tinnies, and can be bought in 24-can slabs for discounted prices. Then there was the Mexican who sold big slabs of chewing taffy for five cents each. Polished slabs are often cut into tiles or countertops and installed in many kinds of residential and commercial properties. The original buildings were built using a modular system of interlocking concrete slabs, known as the CLASP system. Many quarry stones such as marble, granite, limestone, and sandstone are cut into larger slabs and removed from the quarry. Evans unveiled his engine at his store and put it to work crushing plaster of Paris and, more sensationally, sawing slabs of marble. The ingots are then heated in a soaking pit and hot rolled into slabs, billets, or blooms. For the ravenous carnivore, ochsenmaulsalat, veal steak on a bed of mash potatoes, and thick slabs of liverwurst are must-haves. In burning slabs like pyroclastic flow the top of the tower slewed off, militia pods falling out and tumbling. The foundation was delivered separately in preinsulated concrete slabs, and builders are finishing the interior and exterior details on site. Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature. Granite block is usually processed into slabs, which can be cut and shaped by a cutting center. The Blombos Cave site in South Africa, for example, is famous for rectangular slabs of ochre engraved with geometric designs. Such slabs may have steep dips at relatively shallow depths and so may be associated with unusually deep trenches, such as the Challenger Deep. The concreate slabs have an effect on the peak shift, as expected with medium thermal mass. These flattened slabs are only temporarily arrested in the transition zone. Mark fished groundbait feeder tactics with worm and caster hook baits for an 80lb bag of slabs, the biggest going over 8lb. Show More Sentences The driver for seafloor spreading in plates with active margins is the weight of the cool, dense, subducting slabs that pull them along. Beyond is the kitchen which has a very thick glass window that looks out into the pentrough, a long narrow pool lined with massive stone slabs. Styled on a five-star hotel, it stocks an array of chocolates from ganaches and pralines to champagne truffles, chocolate slabs and goodie bags. The slabs preserved the impressions of leaves from oaks, elms, beeches, birches and willows that had lived thousands of years ago. Veal crates may be used and even if they are kept in groups, most will be housed on concrete slabs without any bedding material. Most of his current barge work involves hauling Algoma Steel coils south to Windsor and Chicago, with slabs coming upbound from Hamilton. Wig-Wag Stackers, used to handle rubber strips and slabs in the tire and rubber industry, are featured in a four-color, two-page product bulletin. The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas. Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea warwood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers. In conclusion, the BVB transmits the entrepreneurs the manufacture and supply of concrete slabs and Moellon accordance with the provisions of the present submission documents. A relevant source here is the inscribed slabs offering detailed description of the territory including roads and land redistribution after the Second Punic War. The 3-mm coronal CT slabs were reformatted from contiguous axial slices of the orbit, which includes the space between the interzygomatic line and the orbital apex. The soldiers who built the wall commemorated the construction and their struggles with the Caledonians in decorative slabs, twenty of which still survive. The typical style of these structures is a rectangular or trapezoidal stone and earth mound that encloses a chamber lined with larger stone slabs. All of the local buildings were made from slabs of salt by the slaves of the Masufa tribe, who cut the salt in thick slabs for transport by camel. Contract awarded for construction of a 5 bedroom group home in a single storey development of brick veneer type construction with concrete floor slabs and metal roofing. Furthermore, seismic tomography is being used to identify subducted slabs in the mantle, from which the location of former Panthalassic subduction zones can be derived. It is used to seal horizontal expansion joints in concrete and cementitious slabs, such as sidewalks, balconies, pavement, civil structures, and pitch pans. The great seismic discontinuities in the mantle, at 410 and 670 kilometer depth, are disrupted by the descent of cold slabs in deep subduction zones. This can greatly reduce the weight of beams or slabs, by better distributing the stresses in the structure to make optimal use of the reinforcement. Show More Sentences The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs. Finally, narrow slabs can sink and roll back more rapidly than broad plates, because it is easier for underlying asthenosphere to flow around the edges of the sinking plate. Examples from Classical Literature The large solid cake is cut with wires by hand or by a slabber into slabs of any desired size. But in the cre slabs the fundamental principle was realistic imitation of the life. Well, you know them cut rate apartment houses, with a flossy reception room, all marble slabs and burlap panels and no elevator. The house, which he owns, is a small shack or shanty constructed of scantlings and slabs. Waterglass mixed with hydraulic cement to a thick dough makes a good cement for the edges and joints of stone and marble slabs. When this is the case, the flat slabs of the upper limestone are usually better than slate. As a building material, pis is infinitely superior and more durable than slabs, galvanised iron, or weather-boards. The best inking surfaces or slabs for color work at press or machine are porcelain, litho stone, marble or slab. Over the rafters we laid a roofing of slabs, starting with the bottom and lapping them, as we had done on our tree house. The seats were of masonry capped with slabs of tufa about seven inches thick. We found that there actually were three quadrangular walls constructed of slabs of schist, probably of very ancient date. They are oval in form and have in many cases a base course of orthostatic slabs. The frame was enclosed with slabs, pinned on vertically, and pierced with loopholes. Then the aperture was closed with tiles or marble slabs, carefully cemented. The first are square or rectangular with rounded corners, the base course occasionally consisting of orthostatic slabs. Near this last site was also found a round hut based on a course of orthostatic slabs of typically megalithic appearance. Into these he fitted slabs of clear ice, which formed windows as beautiful and useful as if they had been made of glass. For gorgets the Sikyatki people apparently prized slabs of lignite and plates of selenite. Buildings in which this system is used are occasionally roofed with slabs, but more often corbelling is employed. In the passage the roof is of slabs laid right across, but the roof of the chamber is formed by corbelling. Show More Sentences The roof is formed by corbelling the walls and finishing off with slabs laid across. The roof is composed of concrete slabs, reinforced with expanded metal laths and finished with cement and mortar. On the top of this, I place a few slabs of greenbottle eggs collected a moment ago from the snake in my earthen pan. The massive wooden washstand with mirror, chest of drawers, and the bedstand were all crowned with marble slabs. Cist, sist, n. a tomb consisting of a stone chest covered with stone slabs. Also at Varbola, the stove ends were supported by walls of flatwise laid granite stones and limestone slabs. He said Dokadek 30 is the beamless handset system for speed and safety on site and Dokaflex 15 is the versatile hand-set system for think slabs. The jaw is afterwards sawn into slabs, and piled away like joists for building houses. The chambers are built of upright slabs and are roofed by corbelling. A painting upon slabs of terra-cotta from cre is perhaps still older. Rubbings taken from the sculptured slabs are reproduced here in full. This, with its sculptured slabs, has fallen into the rooms below. And these principally occur on Lombardic slabs and DOS d'Anes. It seemed to have been tunneled through the earth, the sides being lined by either slabs of stone, or walls made by a sort of concrete. This metope was formed of two slabs, of which the upper is wanting. Then there was a Mexican who sold big slabs of brown chewing taffy for five cents each. It was bordered on both sides by slabs carved with figures in high relief. The walls of this vault were covered with slabs or tiles, and the floor with carpeting. Continuous caster 1 is designed for steel slabs with widths between 1,000 and 2,150 millimeters and a thickness of up to 257 millimeters. When molding small slabs an average of 12 were made per day. Show More Sentences The pulpit is of carved stone with inlaid slabs of American onyx. The roof was formed of large flat slabs, which I was told were whinstone. Others, with slabs of bacon and joints of dried meat upon the ends of their pikes, held them up to the blaze or tore at them ravenously with their teeth. Transverse to the length were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone, raised perhaps a foot from the floor, and upon these were heaps of fruits. Philip had a squeamish appetite, and the thick slabs of poor butter on the bread turned his stomach, but he saw other boys scraping it off and followed their example. The sidewalks were superb marble slabs polished as smooth as glass, and the curbs that separated the walks from the broad street were also set thick with clustered emeralds. Find more words! 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