The stonework is beautiful and the inclusion of water and all the green. From Wordnik.com. [Casa Mirindaba by Marcio Kogan] Reference
I confess that the chip in the stonework was a sufficient clue to suggest the true solution, and that I blame myself for not having attained it sooner. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes]
Material culture such as stonework can co-exist with different languages and/or cultures, so a certain amount of caution is in order when extrapolating from one to another. From Wordnik.com. [Pictish female names] Reference
The stonework is beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Centro Historico Morelia] Reference
The stonework will be nearly finished by to-morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
In the corner of the cell there was a board let into the stonework. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
We are, however, warned that the artist has represented the stonework. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The façade is built of solid stonework throughout its length and height. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
In the two western piers of the choir holes may be seen cut in the stonework. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
Parliament, their delicate tracery of stonework etched against the sunset sky. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
The stonework of this village also possesses a somewhat distinctive character. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
There the vaulted stonework stopped us, and an exultant shout went up from below. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
The stonework was finished in 1328, little more than six years after the tower fell. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
Shabby Roman and Victorian stonework has been rubbed, scraped and cleaned with lasers. From Wordnik.com. [Bath cleansing brings Romans back to life] Reference
Older stonework has been used to make the newer reredos, and has been merely reversed. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
Choosing a somewhat stormy night, we commenced by loosening the stonework in the east wall. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Various interesting fragments of stonework are in the chapel, one being a portion of a tomb. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
The name "brick-ashlar" is given to walls faced with ashlar stonework backed in with brickwork. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The Byzantine architects used pierced stonework with great effect both in exterior and interior detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy] Reference
The old shafting has been chipped away on the west face of the stonework opposite to the north-east tower pier. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
In 1862 the stonework of the window was in a very unsafe condition, and about £1400 was spent on restoring it. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
The character of the stonework, as may be seen from Pl. V, is but little better than that of the modern villages. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The stonework of the towers, above the point where the arch springs, is decorated with a Norman arcading in two tiers. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
It is a common practice in erecting buildings with a facing of Kentish rag rubble to back up the stonework with bricks. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
This wall contains a good Early English pointed arch, which is now filled up with stonework and contains a modern window. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Many fragments of historic stonework were found, and these have been grouped together in the south-east chapel, which forms. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
At the foot of these trees water, blue as indigo on wash day, lashed itself into a white fury against the stonework of the pier. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
Therefore, at the outlet, in such cases, a small well of brick or stonework should be constructed, into which the water should pour. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
Gloucester choir having been left comparatively intact below the clerestory, and veiled over with richly wrought Perpendicular stonework. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
It is not to be expected that walls would be carefully constructed of banded stonework when they were to be subsequently covered with mud. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The fourth chapel, which is underneath Abbot Boteler's Chapel, also contains fragments, some of them very beautiful specimens of stonework. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
After all, they mostly went without air conditioning, and not, it seemed, because window units looked tacky jutting up against Old World stonework. From Wordnik.com. [OPEN THE WINDOWS AND LET SUMMER IN] Reference
Fuller speaks of it "as one of the rarest fabricks in Christendom, wherein the stonework, woodwork, and glasswork contend which shall deserve most admiration.". From Wordnik.com. [A Short Account of King's College Chapel] Reference
Thus in 1515, in the 7th year of King Henry VIII's reign, the stonework of the chapel was completed; it had cost, in the present value of money, about £160,000. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Account of King's College Chapel] Reference
One day Lauren's train gets rerouted, spitting her out right outside William's office, just as a piece of stonework tumbles from one of the upper stories of the building. From Wordnik.com. [Jilly Gagnon: Real-Life Romantic Comedies] Reference
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