This custom lasted into Græco-Roman times, and was part of the ritual for laying the foundations of a temple.
A layer of sand spread uniformly on the sub-soil provided against settlements or infiltration, and formed a bed for the foundations of the building.
Archaeologists had evidently been at work here; all the foundations of the old city had been laid bare; it had covered a considerable area, and had been built largely of marble.
Now, only the foundations remain, and no carving or inscriptions are to be seen.
Very far back in time, more than twenty-six hundred years ago, on the banks of a small Italian river, known as the Tiber, were laid the foundations of a city which was in time to become the conqueror of the civilized world.
And when the foundations of the temple were dug a human head was found, which was held to be a sign that the Capitoline Hill should be the head of all the earth.
As it was cut into the rock it was supported by solid foundations below.
Lord Chatham, who, as William Pitt, had conquered Canada in the French and Indian wars and laid the foundations of the modern British empire, was thoroughly disgusted at the conduct of the administration towards America.
Sir Edward Wise, in the reign of James I, very much beautified the house, and legend says that he tried to add such height and such an amount of granite to it that Risdon writes, "The very foundations were ready to reel under the burthen.
The castle faces east, a garden-plot lies in front, and the foundations of an ancient wall divide it from the lawn beyond.
The village itself lies in a ravine of the rock, and the 'street' is so precipitous that the eaves of one house are on a level with the foundations of its next neighbour above.
The recent foundationsof a Catholic University in Milan and in Nimeguen, Holland, justify this claim.
Such a power generally carries in its train the gift of organization, and organization is one of the foundations of national strength.
The same day a stiff easterly breeze sprang up, whirling the snow high into the air, and filling up the foundations as fast as the men dug them.
On January 17 the carpenters began to dig the foundations of the house.
I have heard it said," resumed Gilbert, "that in building bridges and causeways, the best foundations are those which HUMOR the waves of the sea.
These are foundations with inclined slopes, which, instead of breaking the waves abruptly, check their movement by degrees, and abate their force without violence.
We shall commence with Ptolemy, who, after the foundations of the science had been laid by Hipparchus, gave to astronomy the form in which it was taught throughout the Middle Ages.
The foundationsof the WALL of the city are there described.
Before the heavens were made, or ever the foundations of the earth were laid, it was the divine purpose to create intelligent beings to be eternally happy.
From the fact that the city has foundations we are clearly authorized to infer that it rests upon the immutable love, wisdom and power of God.
His own house was next to the foundations of the castle.
Behold I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires” (Isaiah liv.
It is a giddy height; the very foundations of the tower rise above the groves of the steep hill-side.
We were on the naked and broken summit of the haunted mountain of the sun, where ruined tanks and cisterns, and the mouldering foundations of extensive buildings, spoke of former populousness, but where all was now silent and desolate.
Sanchica would have followed; but to her surprise she beheld an opening in the earth, within the barbican, leading down beneath the foundations of the tower.
Earthquakes have shaken the foundations of this pile, and rent its rudest towers; yet see!
It must be wholly unnecessary for Protestantism to expose the superficial glitter of those views, and the feeble foundations of this visionary empire.
He was buried at the abbey he founded here, of which only a wall and the foundations below ground remain.
Similar bundles of wood formed part of the foundations of the early lake-dwellings, and in modern engineering fascines are used in making rough roads over marshy ground and in building river and sea walls and breakwaters.
The solid marble superstructure resting upon its deep foundations of granite, firm as the seated hills, can scarcely be too finely finished or too sumptuously adorned.
The Norman church attached to the Trinità lies at a lower level than that building, having been constructed, says Lupoli, on the foundations of a temple to Hymenaeus.
What a chance for some God, in this age of unbelief, to establish his rule over mankind on the firm foundations of faith!
Many are the fables connected with his name, but the most portentous is this: One day, during his subaqueous wanderings, he discovered the foundationsof Messina.
The coal and iron of England are at this time the stable foundations of her industrial and commercial greatness.
Its Congress, no longer feeble and divided, laid the foundations for American greatness upon the high seas which was to endure for more than a half century.
In digging the foundations of this fort, several nests of straw were found, in each of which three or four round stones were found, as large as oranges, instead of eggs.
No time was lost in taking advantage of this important alliance, and we immediately proceeded to lay the foundations of a colony in a plain about half a league from Chiahuitztla, where we now were.
It is when the foundations of a new house are being dug that the past of Dorchester comes to light and another addition is made to the rich store in the museum.
In its grounds are the foundations of a Roman Villa discovered about forty years ago.
The Romans built up the solid foundations of the greater part of this highway which passes through no villages, though it has several within a short distance of its straight hedges and interminable telegraph posts.
The foundationsand lower parts of the walls of the church are probably Saxon.
Portions of the foundations of the Saxon church were laid bare during repairs to the floor in 1900.
The disaster brought to light the foundationsof a far older building.
Months were spent by the victorious Parliamentary forces in mining the foundations and in the systematic destruction of the magnificent defences.
Bishopstrow Church dates from 1757, when it replaced a building with Saxon foundations and east end.
The magnificent Abbey Church was as imposing as any we have left to us, but not a vestige remains except the fragmentary wall on Gold's Hill and the foundations quite recently uncovered and surveyed.
It was without doubt a Roman town, as the foundations of Roman buildings were discovered while excavations were being made in High Street about twenty years ago.
The foundations of "King's Court Palace," between Ham Common and the railway, show the site of the hunting lodge of Henry III and the Plantagenet kings.
Perhaps the best thing Wyatt ever did was his architectural work in the foundations of this sham "abbey.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then was I by him, as one brought up with him.
Respect the countess he could not; nor, indeed, could he feel any gratitude for a preference which seemed to him to have no foundationsin the only true basis of love-the virtues of the object.
A little onward, a thousand massy fragments, rent by former tempests from their parent cliffs, lay at the foundations of the immense acclivities which faced the cause of their present alarm-a whirlpool almost as terrific as that of Scarba.
Lord Badenoch replied to this rough exhortation with the tranquillity belonging to his nature--"I see not the least foundations for any of your charges against Sir William Wallace.
The development was in the interest of the foundations of mathematics rather than in the use of mathematics as a method for solving scientific problems.
With the act of knowing stripped of its technique and left a bare, unique, indescribable act or relation, the foundations for epistemological and metaphysical logic were laid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foundations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
