The later historian, Diodorus, also tells us that great mounds or ramps of earth were used as well, and that the stones were dragged up these to the requisite height.
Legrain for his work at Karnak, where still exist the remains of the actual mounds and ramps by which the great western pylon was erected in Ptolemaïc times.
A few could stand upon their summits, supposing them to have lost their capstones, but it would require the wide ramps and terraces of the staged tower to afford a foothold for the population of several villages.
Lateral ramps led to a second platform, inclosed on every side, with which the sacred part of the building, the Haram, began.
These were constructed upon the same plan as the ramps of M.
As in the last model, there are seven stages, each stage being square on plan, but the difference consists in the use of two ramps leading from base to summit.
It is accessible by means of three double ramps which will be described in dealing with the lower level of the palace.
Three double ramps provided access to the platform, the eastern pair being the largest and most important.
The double ramps or stairways by which the platform is approached are exactly similar to those employed in the older prototypes.
The north and south ramps are constructed in the same fashion, but they are only 30·80 metres long.
I conjecture that these were guard-rooms, and they may be compared with the rooms under the ramps in the palace of Khusrau.
At all these stations detraining ramps and sidings were built or improved.
Dispiritedly, he passed along innumerable winding corridors and up and down ramps that twisted and turned to lead into other ramps and corridors.
When the British bombed the V-1 ramps on the French coast, the German radio stopped that talk.
The British therefore had additional grounds for supposing that the ramps they had bombed were a part of the secret weapon the Germans bragged about.
Just how many downward sloping ramps they trod on the way to the pits Tharn had no way of knowing.
At last the wearying procession of sloping ramps ceased and they moved along a level corridor.
She walked up the curving ramps to the dining hall where they had eaten and drunk and talked yesterday.
On the way up the long spiralramps to the dining hall, they passed a viewplate.
As the wall was close at hand, we ascended it by one of the ramps or inclined ways that lead to the top, and entered the tower above the gateway.
The bergs had long ramps of snow leading close up to their summits on the windward side and in many cases the intervals between theseramps and the bergs were occupied by deep moats.
Moreover, at intervals during the day, some very distinctive snow ramps had appeared in the valley, some five miles to the north-east, and their position was fixed relative to the course.
Just as we got to the end of it, however, the clouds came over again and the ramps faded.
As we particularly wanted some photos of the ramps at this camp, we made across to it and had lunch there, Hurley exposing the last of the films.
Snow had fallen overnight (December 5) and had drifted in long ramps diagonally across the sastrugi.
Assisted by snow-ramps slanting down on to the floe, the ascent with ice-axes and alpine rope was fairly easy.
Enormous ramps of snow formed in the vicinity, burying most of the cases and the air-tractor sledge completely.
The camp was pitched at two hundred and eighty-three miles amidst a jumble of ramps and sastrugi.
On the 4th the sky was clear, but surface drift prevented us from seeing any mounds till, in the afternoon, the ramps near the sixty-seven-mile depot were discovered in fitful glimpses.
Snow fills all the crevices and tails away in sloping ramps on the lee side of every obstacle.
There were several spots where the ice-cliffs were not more than forty to fifty feet high, but no convenient ramps led down from the cliffs.
Close to the windward edge of some of the latter high ramps of neve with bluff faces on the windward side stood up like monoliths reaching twenty-five feet in maximum height.
At all stations where crowding may be expected, the staircases or ramps to be of ample width, and barriers for regulating the entrance of the crowd at the top to be erected.
Staircases orramps leading to or from platforms to be at no point narrower than at the top, and the available width to be in no case contracted by any erection or fixed obstruction whatever below the top.
Efficient handrails to be provided on both staircases and ramps, and in subways whereramps are used the inclination not to exceed 1 in 8.
Then a line of men formed from the longramps to the sandy beach as guard while the women went ashore.
They rolled the legs of their coveralls high above their knees, and with many excited squeals and giggles hurried down the ramps and into the cool water breaking on the shore.
It was exciting to see landing ramps go down on each side of the craft's bow, like stairs descending into the shallow surf.
There is one area in there in the ramps that I don't quite understand.
Chief Stevenson, I have before me the chart of the basement area including the jail office and parking area and the ramps and so forth.
During our advance the engineers had to build ramps here.
Ramps would drop, a truck or jeep would attempt to drive out, only to get stuck.
Both vehicles suffered from inexperienced LST crews in the transport area who too often would not lower their bow ramps to accommodate LVTs or DUKWs approaching after dark.
And under them, three faire windowes of foure lights, with transomes and littel castel-work on the rampsthereof .
And under them, three faire windowes of foure lights with transomes and littel castel-work on the ramps thereof.
I ran down theramps up which we had ascended to the roof.
I saw a group of them busy in a big chamber as I passed, but I raced on, spinning around the next corner, down the ramps and on .
We've had some lovely ramps together, but the best of friends must part.
True, he would never again be able to enjoy those glorious ramps up hill and down dale that up till then had sent the warm life coursing through his veins.
And here and there in the gloom, they spotted huge ramps leading spirally upward.
Close up, it proved to have many doorless entryways, ramps running up to higher floors, even wiry monorail scaffolding, probably left behind by the builders.
Up a series of ramps they took the still form, placing it finally upon a soft couch in an enormous and heavily guarded central hall.
And behind that single line of armored guards were massed perhaps twenty unarmored, but masked, soldiers; and scuttling up the ramps leading into the hall were coming the platoons of heavily armored figures which Costigan had previously seen.
And behind that single line of armored guards were massed perhaps twenty unarmored, but masked, soldiers; and scuttling up the ramps leading into the hall were coming the platoons of heavily-armored figures which Costigan had previously seen.
As he started past the barred gate to one of the ramps leading down into the vats below, the buzzer beside it sounded.
I'm going to let down the barriers on the ramps from the east and west buildings, sabotage the controls so they can't raise them again, and come on down.
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