Pools having bottom of mud and detritus, emitting malodorous gases; rubble riffles; water turbid.
While collecting we observed that these creeks had larger proportions of gravel-rubble bottom, clearer water, deeper pools, and appeared to be more stable than other creeks in the drainage.
Two hundred and fourteen linear feet of rubble masonry walls were built on a slope of three-fourths to one, and standard bridge railing placed on top for guard fence.
Before me was a long low cabin, with a row of four or five windows and no upper storey; a miserable hut of rubble and plaster, stained with ancient dirt and, at this moment, looking soaked with moisture.
The first consists of a sepulchre of rubble work in a circular form, now surmounted by a cottage; the second, near it, is a stable, with two columns in front.
The prehistoric cemetery of Maupas contains several crypts of irregular form, built of rubble stone, and surmounted by a huge stone which had become corroded by age.
The spaces between these blocks were filled in with rubble made of small stones cemented into one mass with clay.
Fine masonry was not much employed till the time of the Normans, but the Roman plan of building with bricks or rubble and casing the face of the walls with marble or mosaic, or at least plaster, was generally followed.
This precaution should be observed, not only with dimension stone, but also with the rubble which is to be used in walls.
Besides, it depends on the owner whether he desires to build in brick, or rubble work, or dimension stone.
Next comes the consideration of stone-quarries from which dimension stone and supplies of rubble to be used in building are taken and brought together.
But as soon as the moisture is sucked out of the mortar by the porous rubble, and the lime and sand separate and disunite, the rubble can no longer adhere to them and the wall will in time become a ruin.
In these tall piles reared with piers of stone, walls of burnt brick, and partitions of rubble work, and provided with floor after floor, the upper stories can be partitioned off into rooms to very great advantage.
No walls made of rubble and finished with delicate beauty--no such walls can escape ruin as time goes on.
Its walls, 10 feet in thickness, are constructed of flint rubble with courses of bonding-tiles.
And at each blow this rock crumbled and shattered at its edge, showering down rubble all around us.
Just as the king had a secondary tomb, so secondary mastabas, mere dummies of rubble like the XIth Dynasty pyramid at Dêr el-Bahari, were erected beside it to look like the tombs of his courtiers.
The pyramid was then a dummy, made of rubble within a revetment of heavy flint nodules, which was faced with fine limestone.
Illustration: A well-armed Marine assault team, with a BAR and a flamethrower, moves out and heads for its objective across the rubble created by preliminary bombardment.
With a cry Belit dropped to her knees among the blood-stained rubble on the brink and thrust her white arms shoulder-deep into that pool of splendor.
Then a rubble of shattered stone lay whitely under the moon.
A terrible desert of rubble and ashes and fire confronted her.
Whole acres, which were streets and churches and markets a month ago, were now but rubble for the builder's cart.
Skirting the torn walls and keeping in the heavier shadows, creeping over piles of rubble as silently as a rat, he came at last to a point which overlooked the hole where men toiled, wearily, though in desperate haste.
A moment later eight Germans came toward him, picking their way over piles of rubble and carrying spidery things he recognized as machine-guns.
A lofty wall, thick enough at the top for purposes of defence, would be very expensive if built of solid masonry; therefore the plan was early introduced of building two walls with a filling of earth or rubble between them.
If built of rubble stone or Portland cement concrete, they shall be at least 8 in.
As regards resistance to the effect of shot, it was found that thin masonry walls with rubble filling behind them were very easily destroyed.
The curtain walls, of great thickness, are composed of two faces of small cubical masonry alternating with courses of brick; the middle portion being filled, not with earth but with rubble run with lime.
Occasionally the silence would be broken by a crash, and a little heap of brick rubble would subside into the road, raising a cloud of thick choking dust.
In districts where stone was abundant, uncemented walls of large blocks were erected, generally with battering surfaces, the hollow portion between the two faces being filled up with earth or rubble as in Fig.
He let out an animal cry, and dashed out, crawling through the opening, and kicking the rubble back as he went.
And now, the rubble and stones along the street began to lift, and to drive savagely at the attackers.
The building was supported on needles, and rubble masonry was put in from the bottom of the old foundation to the rock.
The sharp rubble cut through our boots, and the glistening rocks, hot as a fiery furnace, burnt our clutching hands.
They did not cease digging, however, until every square yard of the fallen soil and rubble from the top of the cliff had been combed over.
This was the "big slide" which had for a time choked the river channel with soil and rubble and threatened to flood out Canyon Pass.
A house had stood by the roadside in the middle of that ruined forest, but only the rubble foundations were left.
It was a rude house of logs twenty feet square, furnished with fixed bunks and a table set against the wall, one movable bench, and a fire-hearth in one corner built of rubble stone.
We landed by the other third of Pokka, a new house with two glass windows and a chimney of rubble stone.
Half was hay-chamber, half mistal, and set between the stalls for the cows was a great square stove of rubble stone to give the beasts heat during the perishing cold of winter.
The floor was of beaten earth, and at one corner beside the door was a large bee-hive-shaped mound of rubble stones, with a fireplace in the middle to admit burning logs.
So we went into the red log-house, and took possession of one of the two rooms, which was furnished principally with a large white-washed rubble stove that reached up to the roof beams.
Now, his left arm wounded, his head cut, and eyes half blinded with a rain of rubble brought down by an Arab bullet, he had made part of the descent when Saidee screamed her high-pitched scream of terror.
The wild Touareg chant was louder now, but she hardly heard it, because her ears strained for some sound which the singing might cover: the sound of rubble crumbling under a foot that climbed and sought a holding-place.
Rubble brick was of no use for standings; the bricks had to be set properly; rubble was lost in the soil within a day.
