Beside this, is another statue of his mother, cut from a single block of granite, thirty feet high.
It is of a single block, of forty-eight feet in height, and sixteen and a half in circumference.
The topping-lifts are usually hooked into a band or spliced into bolts about one quarter the distance from the outer end of the boom, and reeve through single blocks under the top, with a double or single blockat their lower ends.
The next to go over the boom-end are the guys, which are fitted with a cut-splice covered with canvass, and have a single block turned in at their other ends.
The height of each shaft, which is composed of a single block, is forty-six feet, and the circumference fifteen feet.
The chair is like an ordinary library chair, with solid back and sides, sculptured out of a single block, and perforated in the seat with a circular aperture.
Albert Durer studied under Michael Wolgemuth as a painter, and not as a wood engraver; and I consider it as extremely questionable if either of them ever engraved a single block.
The mark of this artist is to be found on a great number of wood engravings, but beyond this fact there is not the least reason to suppose that he ever engraved a single block.
It is formed of a single block of marble, bearing aloft the winged lion, which represented for so many years the dominion of Venice over the town of Verona.
A fine side-altar is to be noticed on the right going up the church, with four columns of reddish-brown marble all carved out of a single block, and resting on a lion and an ox, and dating from the fourteenth century.
Here the bases and capitals are united, each pair as at St Zeno being cut out of a single block, while on the side nearest the church the pillars are double--an effect that is remarkably beautiful and striking.
This statue was originally about fifty feet high, and hewn from a single block of limestone; it stood in front of a temple and is supposed to be the one mentioned by Herodotus.
The sanctuary contains a sanctum sanctorum, a large cage cut from a single block of granite, and once enclosing the hawk I which was the emblem of the divinity to whose worship the temple was dedicated.
They were made to represent one of the Kings, and one at least was cut from a single block.
Four rows of square columns, each still hewn from a single block, extend along the sides of the temple.
The ceilings are vaulted, and the roofs supported by double rows of columns, cut from a single block.
At each angle of the temple are two enormous lions, hewn, pedestal and all, from a single block.
The terrace opens into a grand court, crowded with a forest of magnificent columns with capitals, each hewn from a single block of stone.
A whip purchase, consisting of a rope passing through a single block on the head of a lower mast to hoist up the rigging thereof, and the persons employed to place it; the girt-line is therefore the first rope employed to rig a ship.
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower tail or hook-block, and the standing end is secured to the upper block, or where it is attached.
A small tackle consisting of a double and a single block, and used by seamen on sundry occasions about the decks or aloft.
It is also invariably used for the hauling up the sails along the masts or stays, and the displaying of flags and pendants, though by the help of a single block only.
The stone altars are very rare, and are formed of rough slabs, and not hewn from a single block.
We collected six specimens of a peculiarly shaped long, narrow box, carved from a single block of wood, which we were informed were formerly used for holding tools.
The kaiak is 29 inches long, very neatly carved from a single block of wood, and solid except at the cockpit.
It is made of a single block of wood, hollowed, and carved.
It is cut out of a single block of wood, which, when rubbed or damped, emits a peculiar aromatic scent.
The body is cut out of a single block of wood, the belly only being glued to it.
The doors were always sliding; the threshold was made of a single block of timber, tastefully carved.
The grave of a chief's family was a vault paved with a single large stone, while the four walls were formed each of a single block.
Two central pillars appear to have supported the roof, each fashioned of a single block of stone some thirteen feet high, twelve inches thick one way and nine inches the other.
Another sculpture, found by Stephens, is a seat or couch carved out of a single block of stone and measuring 3 feet 2 inches in length and 2 feet in height.
In the centre apartment at Kabah this usually simple step had been replaced by two stone steps carved out of a single block, the lower step being in the form of a scroll.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single block" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
