Why, it has not yielded one paving stone; the unprofitable wretch has never even intended to do good.
I have converted the old man's charity into a paving stone.
He has seen his relations distressed without relief, has cheated his friends, been cruel to his children, with a great deal more; and all this without so much virtue as amounts to a paving stone.
Here, I see, is a most resolute paving stone, for the intention it declares is, "To abandon all my vices next year.
It appeared that they had already tried to force the door, as there was a heap of dead men, timbers, paving stones, and rubbish piled up before it, reaching to the middle of the road.
You would have thought it would drop at every stroke; we could see through the planks the paving stones heaped as high as the top inside.
You might as well try to wring juice out of a paving stone.
The searchlights from the war vessels arose and wavered like huge antennae feeling for something through the night, now and again paving a golden path from the launch to the ships.
Other services rendered by Franklin to Philadelphia related to the better paving and lighting of its streets.
Dutch clinkers are small, hard paving bricks burned at a high temperature and of a light yellow colour; they are 6 in.
Paving formed of ordinary bricks laid flat or on their [Sidenote: Brick paving.
A variety of paving tile called "oven tiles" is of similar material to the ordinary red brick, and in size is 10 or 12 in.
A less costly paving may be obtained by strewing irregularly-shaped marble chips over the floated surface: these are pressed into the cement with a plasterer's hand float, and the whole is then rolled with an iron roller.
The work of laying bricks or tiles as paving falls to the lot of the bricklayer.
Mosaic work is composed of small pieces of marble, stone, glass or pottery, laid as paving or wall lining, usually in some ornamental pattern or design.
The paving of the streets of London has enabled the owners of some barren rocks on the coast of Scotland to draw a rent from what never afforded any before.
He becomes proprietor of this portion of the mine, and can work it without paving any acknowledgment to the landlord.
MAY 31—The Worcester Paving and Lighting Act received the royal assent—better known as the City Commissioners’ Act.
They're tired of McQuade and Donnelly; Some of these pavingdeals smell.
In the fine early work at Gizeh they sawed the paving blocks of basalt, and then ground only just the edges flat, while all the inside of the joint was picked rough to hold the mortar.
A meeting of the Commissioners for the re-paving of London was held in June 1766, when Aberdeen granite was adopted, and Charles Whitworth, Esq.
Law) Defn: A contribution or a tax for pavingstreets or highways.
The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
At that time any man in the city might have a cart-load of hard stone for paving brought to his door for sixpence or sevenpence, with the carriage.
The use of coaches was very limited, owing to the narrow roads and imperfect paving of Elizabethan London.
Stow describes the stately porch entering the great hall, the paving of Purbeck marble, the coloured glass windows, and, alas!
Why, I just tapped him on the head with a paving stone tied up in the corner of a handkerchief, after which delicate salutation he made not the slightest objection to my borrowing what he had about him.
And the frost was that hard that ashes out of the dustbin had to be strewed over the paving to prevent your slipping.
This paving is to be sixteen feet wide with a two-foot rock shoulder on each side.
In connection with the paving there was a considerable amount of grading, the total expenditure for grading, culverts, etc.
The paving of this section is practically complete at this date and the contracting company is to be complimented upon the excellence of its work.
After the work had started, it was decided to pave between Oregon City and Canby, and the contract for this paving let to the Oregon Hassam Paving Company.
The paving will start about four miles north of the city limits of Salem and extend to the Marion-Clackamas County Line, just north of Aurora, the total length being eighteen miles.
Illustration: Effects of Shock: Separation of the Sidewalk from the Asphalt Paving on Capp Street, Between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets.
Illustration: Break in the Asphalt Paving on Van Ness Avenue, Near Vallejo.
I strapped on the pack and taking a deep breath, threw the rolled sleeping bag over my shoulder and headed across the slippery paving toward the white, which now glistened in the periodic sheets of distant lightning.
As we settled in, the rotor began to cause surface effect, throwing a spray off the paving stones, which now glistened under the cold beam of the landing lights.
The paving of this court is very pretty, the squares being indicated by double black lines, and those under the mosque are fringed at the top with three delicate sprays of jasmine flowers.
It is alleged that the extremes of climate prevent the use of any other material, but there is probably more truth in the statement that the money voted by municipal councils for their pavingfinds its way into other channels.
While the paving was progressing agreeably to this order, an honest Scotchman came by from the vicinity with a loaded wagon.
Through the glaring light of publicity, the bureau collected more than a million dollars for paving done at the public's expense between the street-car company's rails.
Large pavingand building contracts are let simply because the police commissioner wanted to oust some unfaithful political dependent.
They secured an expert to watch the paving as it went down to be sure that their half of the paving money was well expended.
The coal on the wagons, the vegetables displayed in front of the grocery shops, the very wooden blocks in the loosened street paving are a challenge to their powers to help out at home.
The Nineteenth Ward Improvement Association which met at Hull-House during two winters, was the first body of citizens able to make a real impression upon the local paving situation.
Daoud could hear the hound panting and his claws drumming on the paving stones.
He saw in the courtyard a big gray hound racing over the paving stones twice as fast as any man could run.
A pool of bright red widened rapidly on the flat paving stones.
Daoud studied the dark irregular stain where the fallen man had bled on the rain-damp paving stones of the campiello.
He opened his eyes and saw in the shadows before him a short man with a full white beard holding the reins of a donkey that breathed heavily and shifted its feet nervously on the great black paving stones of the Appian Way.
VIII The clatter of four horses' hooves over the broken pavingstones of the Appian Way rang in Daoud's ears.
Daoud jerked the reins of his horse, and the hooves no longer rang on old Roman paving stones but thudded on hard-packed dirt.
