Accordingly, a large, serried crowd was collected under the roofing of the spacious platform, a hundred yards in length, where all the benches were already covered with waiting pilgrims and their parcels.
Thus for my own part," he continued, "during our long journey from Paris I tried to divert my thoughts by counting the bands in the roofing up there.
On the right hand, beyond the roofing of the platform, there was a confused swarming of people.
And now here we are on our way back to Paris, and there are thirteen bands across the roofing there, and the knob is still shining--all of which tells me that I am again on the same seat, with my legs lifeless.
In two of them roofing tile and bricks were found.
The rough roofing of the bazaar forms a grateful shelter from the scorching sun.
The roofing of that church is garnished with the arms of Thomas Archehull, one of the churchwardens in the year 1455, who was there buried; Thomas Morsted, esquire, and chirurgeon to King Henry IV.
Completing the three hinder cranial "vertebræ" and roofing in the brain are the supraoccipital, the parietals and the frontals.
He denied the resemblance of the frontal and nasal "vertebræ" to true vertebræ, pointing out that both parietals and frontals are bones specially developed for the purpose of roofing over and protecting the cerebrum.
In 1321 we find a grant from the clergy of the Deanery of Taunton in aid of the roofing of the new campanile," meaning, not improbably, a wooden spire.
The roofing of the presbytery would naturally suggest this change; it would perhaps make it absolutely necessary.
Even in the coldest weather this set may be kept from freezing by roofing it over with evergreen boughs, and banking it well with snow.
I would make some splits in the log with my axe, drive in a few stakes and weave evergreen boughs among the stakes, roofing the pen with boughs.
In addition to complications of design, the centralised plan raised questions of roofing which did not trouble the builders of the long wooden-roofed basilicas.
Inger got the potatoes in by herself, and Isak had the roofing done before the rain came on in earnest.
Isak takes advantage of every fall of rain to put in a spell of roofing on the new barn, and get the south wall at least fully done; once that is ready, they can stuff in as much hay as they please.
And they had less trouble with the timber; they could cut their planks at the sawmill, which gave them the outside pieces for roofing at the same time.
If there were no roofing, you could arrange the walls and carry them up pretty much as you chose, but the roofing of a large space is another matter.
They made the bricks, lime, and cement, and all tiles necessary for roofing or for paving.
Lime-wash was used for the inner roofing timbers and tiles, and generally for the walls, except for the three feet of dado, which was coated with coal tar.
They felled and stacked timber upon the island, which, after conveyance to the yard, was sawn and wrought into all that was required for roofing timbers, doors and window frames.
After this, carts for the roads, iron and wood work for bridges, roofing timbers for public works, and other necessary requirements for the erection of minor works were satisfactorily accomplished.
It is not the use of this roofing system, therefore, but the skill with which it was adapted to the naves and aisles of churches of basilical plan, that furnishes the most interesting features in the study of Romanesque tunnel vaulting.
With the upright block technique went hand in hand the roofing of narrow spaces by means of horizontal slabs laid across the top of the uprights.
One was simply the earlier dolmen with one side open and in front of it a sort of portico or elementary corridor formed by two upright slabs with no roofing (cf.
Gerhardt followed his example, but it was easy to see that he had never handled lumber or tin-roofing before.
The wide-spreading branches of the plane trees met overhead, shutting out the sky androofing in the orange glare.
Illustration: PLATE 55] Much the sane doubts and difficulties beset the subjects of the roofing and lighting of the temples as those which have been discussed already in connection with the palaces.
The first conjecture published on the subject of roofing was that of M.
But the great halls seemed too wide to have borne such a roofing without supports.
After carefully reviewing all the circumstances, he gave it as his opinion that the Khorsabad building had been roofed throughout with a flat, earth-covered roofing of wood.
The two questions of the roofing and lighting of the Assyrian palaces are so closely connected together that they will most conveniently be treated in combination.
All that seems to be certain is that what roofing they had was of wood, which at Nimrud was cedar, brought probably from the mountains of Syria.
The eastern side of the island contains some farming land, and a quarry of roofing slate.
Jagged holes in the semicircular iron roofing proved the wisdom of his precautions.
We'll make that gun-pit with the camouflaged roofing into a mess to-morrow.
The Grahams very often travelled in a small ship called a sampan, which had a mat roofing over the centre, and was driven forward, very frequently by women, with two oars and a scull.
A barrier of prickly stems extended round the huts, throwing a shade over them, whilst these dwellings often had for roofing a thatch of dried leaves.
