Their implements of husbandry and war were of hard stone, but generally of obsidian and of wood.
Trallianus writeth how the Athenienses digging on a time in the ground, to laie the foundation of a new wall to be made in a certeine Iland in the daies of an emperour, did find the bones of Macrosyris in a coffin of hard stone, of 100.
At numerous places its way is blocked by hard stone material, through which it digs a bed in cataracts.
No more special monuments for each of the dead, but one common vault for all; no more immense sarcophagi in hard stone, but mere coffins in polished wood, sometimes stolen from earlier kings or private persons.
Being thus laid, it is to be planed and polished diligently with some hard stone; but, above all, regard is to be had that the boarded floor be made of oak.
In the cabinet of cameos and engraved gems, there are figures in mezzo-relievo, and entire little statues in hard stone, fabricated by the same company of artists; not to mention what is in the Pitti palace and the church of S.
Lorenzo, and the ornamenting it with urns and altars wrought in hard stone, invited Giovanni Bianchi from that city to his court, in the year 1580, and committed the works in mosaic to his direction.
This art was in request at Milan; where, on account of the vicinity of Alpine countries abounding in every species of hard stone, it arrived at great perfection.
For this purpose, every species of hard stone is collected and sawed; innumerable colours are thence selected, graduating from the deepest to the lightest shade, which are kept ready for use.
This goodly foundation having a free schoole and almes houses for poore men (builded of hard stone) adjoyning to the west end of the church, was of olde time confirmed by Henry the Sixt, in the year 1447.
Lime, made with oyster or other shells, is weaker than that made with marble or hard stone; but the process of Nature is the same, as are the results of its operation.
These altars seem to have been raised slabs of hard stone with a protuberant part near one end, so that the breast of the victim was raised into an arch, which made it more easy for the priest to cut across it with his obsidian knife.
Three Views of a Sacrificial Collar or Clamp, carved out of hard stone.
Jumpers are shafts of steel having a widened edge, and are used for boring holes in hard stone.
Templates, slabs of hard stone set in a wall to take the ends of a beam or girder so as to distribute the load over a larger area of the wall.
For example, in the Maldivian islands the buildings are made of a hard stone weighed up from several fathoms under water.
They then took out the core and broke down the partitions between the drilled holes, with the chisel and hammer, and thus made large excavations in the block of hard stone.
He found one of hard stone, an agate, engraved with an Assyrian emblem.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard stone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
