So I was two blocks 'way, when I hear de shootin'!
Made de sugar in lil blocks dat dey freeze just like dey freeze ice dis day en time.
But the character of the masonry is rather that which was prevalent in the Middle Ages--conglomerate piles, faced with carefully hewn and jointed blocks of stone.
Such walls are composed at Ani of an inner core of solid conglomerate, faced on either side with rectangular blocks of hewn stone.
When he had completed this feat, he was seen bearing upon his shoulders eight blocks of stone of gigantic size which he had taken from the crest of the mountain.
You are always winding inwards to avoid the heaps of boulders, or emerging on the backs of gigantic blocks of lava towards the margin of the shining slope.
In one place it is a tower of this loose masonry which blocks all further approach; in another a solid barrier of sharp crags, laced together, which it is necessary to circumvent.
Temperately they thread their way over the uplands or in the cañons, except where blocks of lava may have tumbled into the trough, causing the stream to wreathe and hiss.
It appears to have been the custom among the Armenians down to comparatively recent times for pious people to place large blocks of stone in front of the entrance to a church by way of offering.
On the opposite bank we were impressed by the proportions of a cliff of lava, of which the face was disposed throughout in spheroidal blocks rising immediately from the water's edge.
Blocks of rock and huge pieces of ice were precipitated over the base, and the flood extended for a space of about thirteen miles.
This mistaken estimate is due in part to the position of the hill of Karniarch, which blocks the view towards the south-east.
The pilasters are composed of blocks of black stone; while for the capitals and the upper portion of the building only pink stone has been used.
The exterior is of grey stone, varied by blocks of red volcanic rock; here and there carved slabs of such rock have been inserted, a familiar feature in Armenian architecture.
Their masonry of cemented blocks gives them the appearance of castles, the work of a more than human hand; they threaten to tumble headlong into the valley, a fate to which some have already succumbed.
I put three of Shirley's building blocks under my back so I couldn't.
Winnie had gone to carry a pie to an old neighbor several blocks away, Sarah was out playing with a school chum and Rosemary and Aunt Trudy were deep in the discussion of new curtains for the former's room.
They had to contend not only with climatic influences, but sometimes the malice of man placed stumbling-blocks in their way.
The fore and hind wheels raised on blocks at 31 inches did not upset the coach.
The Hughes live two blocks down the street and three to the right, in a brown house back from the street.
A chain, running through blocks attached to a solid upper framework, like the open belfry of an Italian monastery, dragged a barrel up a wooden track from the water hole to the opening in the sprinkler.
Through a doorway is a second hall containing columns much less noble, and beyond this one walks in ruin, among crumbled or partly destroyed chambers, broken statues, become mere slabs of granite and fallen blocks of stone.
But these are calling upon the Mohammedan's god as they slowly drag to the appointed places the mighty blocks of stone.
Here are some twenty burial mounds, the largest of which is that of New Grange, a domed tumulus erected above a circular chamber, which is entered by a narrow passage enclosed by great upright blocks of stone, covered with carvings.
The principles of the two preceding sections may be illustrated by the consideration of a particular case of a buttress of blocks forming a continuous series of pieces (fig.
Besides the summits of fixed rocks, there are numerous erratic blocks of vast size strewed over the shoals and islands in the skar, which have been probably drifted by ice in the manner before suggested.
The date of the refrigeration thus inferred appears to coincide very nearly with the era of the dispersion of erratic blocks over Europe and North America, a phenomenon which will be ascribed in the sequel (ch.
He found the space between decks entire, but covered with blocks from 6 to 8 cubic feet in size, and some of them heaped one upon the other.
Some of the blocks of stone were very large, leading us to infer that the ground which sank and rose again was much shattered and torn to pieces by the elastic vapors.
A provincial term for large rounded blocks of stone lying on the surface of the ground, or sometimes imbedded in loose soil, different in composition from the rocks in their vicinity, and which have been therefore transported from a distance.
There is always one line of blocks on each side or edge of the icy stream, and often several in the middle, where they are arranged in long ridges or mounds, often several yards high.
The ice transports indifferently, and to the same spots, the heaviest blocks and the finest particles, mingling all together, and leaving them in one confused and promiscuous heap wherever it melts.
At Northmavine, also, angular blocks of stone have been removed in a similar manner to considerable distances by the waves of the sea, some of which are represented in the annexed figure.
A small ravine swept out by a torrent exposes the structure of the cone, which is composed of innumerable inclined and slightly undulating layers of pumice, scoriae, white lapilli, and enormous angular blocks of trachyte.
Gedge was right; for he had been gazing up at an ice-fall, whose drops were blocks and masses of ice diminished into dust by the great distance, and probably being formed of thousands of tons.
Fashionable weddings and banquets took place under the roof of the famous restaurant only a couple of blocks distant.
Southern Italy, which is constructed of large blocks of stone, arranged in squared masses, called the Etruscan style of masonry, in contradistinction to the Cyclopean.
Thanks are also due to the Trustees of the British Museum for kind permission to reproduce their blocks for Figs.
It was her first meeting with such a type in the back-blocks of New South Wales.
Not been down from the back-blocks for three years?
It was thus they careered across the vast chessboard of the fenced back-blocks at dead of night.
The Chinese have used composite blocks (wood engraved blocks with many characters, analogous to our stereotype plates) from an early period.
At each of the great terminals there are very extensive platforms; the one at the City Hall Station is a block long; that at the General Post-office two blocks long, and these platforms are under the control of the transportation department.
As regards the history and use of printing, the Japanese had it from the Chinese, who invented the art of printing from wooden blocks in the sixth century.
These borderings and ornaments being generally in separate blocks as to headings, side panels, and tail-pieces, could easily be shifted and a certain variety obtained by being differently made up.
The two designs here given are printed from the blockscut by Bonner and Byfield (1833).
Huge blocks of gray granite, embossed with white lichens, are thrown in disorder on the slant of the hill which has hollowed out an inlet for this cove.
Then, I presume, the raising of those immense blocks of stone which go to form the Pyramids would puzzle our modern engineers, as would many things in that land of wonders, Egypt.
Its main street consisted of a few blocks of small frame stores, some of which are still standing.
To see some of them finished and standing, and then the huge blocks lying about, looks so massy, and carries one, in imagination, to the ruined piles of ancient Babylon.
A fine residence about completed impressed him: It was built entirely of great blocks of red granite.
And when got, what human ingenuity could raise those enormousblocks of stone to that vast height?
Still we rode on, cleaving our way through solid blocksof human flesh: the sabre cuts one and two, with the corresponding points, were most used.
Others sold their blocks to the boxwood merchant, not by the block but by the ton!
Owing to this splitting, only blocks of small size can be obtained from one piece; where larger blocks are required and also for the sake of economising wood, it is necessary to join pieces together.
The method of producing these large blocks is called cutting.
These early blocks were all cut on the long grain of the wood, a method that continued until it was discovered that the end grain was a better medium for cutting of fine lines for shading or outline.
The workman who draws, engraves and prints his own blocks is master of the situation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
