Further, it is covered almost to the ground by the original casing of polished white limestone blocks, so that it gives a very good idea of the original appearance of the other pyramids, which have lost their casing.
In both pyramids the outer casing of white stone has entirely disappeared, leaving only the bare black bricks.
It also originated in a mastaba, enlarged, and with another mastaba-like erection on the top of it; but it was given a continuous sloping casing of fine limestone from bottom to top, and so is a true pyramid.
Inglis's patent arrangement, with separate liner and steam jacket casing and separate end valve chambers.
The door casing is five inches thick, the sill board six inches wide, and slanting to one inch lower on the outside than on the inside.
On the sides and across the upper part of the door casing are nailed inch-thick strips which, with the edge of the casing against which the door shuts, gives a two-inch edge which effectually excludes air currents.
I'm only worked up about a woman myself," reaching out a hand for the casing of the doorway to steady himself.
This casing is continuous from end to end of the locking frame, with the exception of the narrow openings through which the levers travel when moving backwards or forwards.
The cylinder itself is generally considered merely as a casing or medium for obtaining a foundation, the weight of the superstructure being carried on the internal filling or lining.
Cast-iron braces D are placed at convenient distances between the series of levers to carry the top frame E on which the lever floor casing F is bolted.
In the middle of this was a copper ring, and the slab fitted, into a stone casing about eighteen inches wide.
As soon as this casing was cleared, Dias and José took their places on one side, the two brothers on the other.
The characteristic of casing the teeth in gold should identify the tribe did it still exist.
The hand-hewn beams in the ceiling were uncovered from the casing which had hidden them, and the wood rubbed and oiled.
In order to let the light in from the hallway, windows were inserted which follow the early window casing in their plain style and contain small panes, there being no elaboration.
A slight reduction in the height of the window casing affords an opportunity to carry the wall-paper and moldings across the windows and doors, thus avoiding the cramped effect of too high window arrangement.
Used as an addition to soup, and as a casing for lobsters, patties, eggs, &c.
Removing one side only allows inner tube to be removed and reinstalled, and also allows inside of casing to be inspected.
NOTE: It is not always necessary to completely remove casing from rim.
Before applying casing to rim, see that rubber rim strip is in place in rim well and that rim strip valve hole alines with valve hole in rim.
The rim well, being smaller in circumference than the rest of the rim, allows one casing bead to fit loosely in it while other bead is being worked over edge of rim.
NOTE: Inner tube may be placed in casing before or after first bead of casing is on rim.
Press casing head into rim well to within a short distance of each side of valve.
After a portion of second bead is started over rim edge, casingcan be further removed from wheel without aid of tire iron.
It was not easy to remove the casing of ice, outside in the wind, because this could only be done slowly, with bare fingers exposed.
On the plate or body are cast two loops or guides for the bolt, and the plate is slotted under the bolt, and a lug projects into the slot and bears against a spring contained by a small casing riveted to the back of the plate.
A blow upon the knob at the top of the plunger forces the chisel-pointed rods through holes in the casing into the meat, the casing resting on the surface of the steak.
Over that would go a casing to keep them from expanding or stretching.
Remove the outer casing of an old clock; loosen the four brass nuts that hold the frame together, and take out all the wheels, except the axle on which the mainspring is fastened.
The outside casing may be of ship-lap boards or tongued and grooved material.
This siding is sawed off square, and makes a butt joint with the outer casingof door and window frames.
On cheap work the outside boarding is omitted, the earth being shaved with the shovel as near the position of outer casing as possible.
Only fragments of the finest limestone casing have been found; the variety of colour was probably due to weathering.
Menkara's still preserves the remains of its casing of red granite (Note 31).
The casing of the open air court on the top of it was of fine limestone; only a few blocks of this remain.
On examining the breaches in the masonry, it is seen that the outer face of each step is coated with two layers, each of which has its regular casing (Note 32).
The casing work was begun from the top, and the cap placed on first, the steps being covered one after the other, until they reached the bottom (Note 21).
It preserved, until the Arab conquest, a casing of stones of different colours (Note 20), so skilfully joined as to appear like one block from base to summit.
Dirt cone and one with its casing in part removed.
With coats of mail and other leathern armour (casing their limbs) cut open, they weltered in excreta ejected by themselves.
Bhimasena, O king, casing his hands in leathern fence, took up his bow.
Near by, where the floor suddenly fell one deep step to a lower level, he had thrown, among a multitude of sealed jars, half of the gilded openwork casing which had encircled one of the mummies.
The outer casing of the Great Pyramid, beautiful granite as hard as iron, was removed to build the large mosque of this comparatively modern city.
The removal of this casing has left the under layers bare, and these, step-like in appearance, are annually scaled by tourists.
This casing was removed by the Mohammedans for use in building the mosque of Cairo.
Finally, the beautiful granite used for outer casing was found near the southern border of Egypt, floated down the stream when the water was high, and having been polished like a mirror, was fitted over the rougher stone.
The explosion had occurred in the double casinground the bottom of one of the funnels.
This was caused by casing the Norman piers with Perpendicular stone-work, and the balcony above the arches was necessitated by the work of reconstruction.
The purely architectural origin of this system of casing is thus clearly shown.
It has often been found in excellent condition, both upon flat and curved surfaces, upon the walls of courtyards and chambers, on the under sides of vaults, wherever in fact a stone casing did not supply its place.
It is a fragment of a limestone slab from the casing of a façade (Fig.
At Khorsabad this stone casing is in very bad condition at many points, in the halls and passages of the outbuildings and in the courtyards adjoining the city gates for instance.
The dynamo is seen on the extreme right, the steam turbine on the extreme left, and the drum-shaped casing between contains cog-gearing by which the high revolution of the turbine wheel is reduced to a proper working speed for the dynamo.
The fire box was surrounded by an exterior casing that formed a water jacket, which, by means of pipes, was in open communication with the water space of the boiler.
It was in the dusk of evening; and, seeing her outline against the window, he stepped back against the wall and leaned there a moment, grasping at the casing with one hand.
This tube projects from the fireclaycasing into the medium to be examined, and can be pushed in or out as required.
This heat it brings back through a short India-rubber pipe to a casing containing a thermometer.
He stood gripping the casing with both hands and looking up over the hillside where also the light lay revealingly.
Tenney stood there silent, flaccid, a hand on the casing of the door.
The formation of the supporting lug for the transmitter from the sheet metal which forms the rear casing or shell of the instrument is also an interesting feature.
The outer casing is of zinc, formed in the shape of a cylindrical cup, and serves not only as the retaining vessel, but as the negatively charged electrode.
