His name is preserved in the Clach Aenais (Stone of Angus), a slab bearing a representation of a priest holding a chalice.
I cast the sticks again upon the altar slab and bent over them with a prayer to God.
He was then directed, by signs and a few muttered English words, to cast them upon theslab before the altar.
Lay this slab of white meat skin side down, then begin at the thick end and cut off steaks, transversely, one half inch thick, until all the slab is cut.
Within the church is a slab bearing record of the consecration, A.
In one of these before the high altar, a few years ago, when the slab that covered it was raised, the body of a man in rich garments was disclosed holding a book in his hand, that seemed to have escaped the ravages of time.
And here, sitting on a huge slab that has fallen from the broken arch above, is a small boy of ten.
Kircher gives a good many more Syriac names than appear on the rubbing, probably because some of these are on the edge of the slab now built in.
So when the blows upon this slab are heard, everybody is aware that fire has broken out, or that there is some other cause of alarm.
In repairing a hermitage which here existed, in 1547, the workmen came upon a stone slab with a cross and inscription carved upon it.
Moreover, within the city there is an eminence on which stands a Tower, and at the top of the tower is hung a slab of wood.
Sacred tree, from a sculptured slabin the Treasury of St. Mark's, Venice.
The same, from a sculpturedslab in the Treasury of St. Mark's, Venice 7 7.
So he crept over the slab once more into the hole with his torch in his hand.
But he found he could not get even a finger through the chink between the slab and the rock.
Out tumbled the slab on the heap, and out crept Curdie over the top of it.
She had already begun to follow it over the fallen slabinto the hole, while Curdie was searching the floor of the cavern for his pickaxe.
He crawled to it, and found that they had heaved a slab against the mouth of the hole, past the edge of which a poor little gleam found its way from the fire.
The name of Roger Downes is perpetuated on a massive marble slabaffixed to the wall of Wigan Church, in which his remains are interred.
The most satisfactory thing that has been found for cooling purposes is a marble slab such as is found on an old-fashioned table or dresser.
A slab is better for this purpose than anything else, but if this cannot be obtained a metal or other hard table top may be used.
Spread the nuts on a buttered slab or pan, and to them add fruit or coconut if it is desired to use either of these.
A satisfactory coolingslab may be improvised by fastening four pieces of wood together so as to fit the outside edge of the slab and extend an inch or more above the surface.
If a platter is used, a putty knife is preferable, for it has a narrower blade than a wallpaper scraper; but where candy is made in quantity and a large slab is used, the larger scraper does the work better.
To prevent the hot candy from running off after it is poured on a slab or any similar flat surface, a device of some kind should be provided.
As has already been learned, a platter or a slab is very satisfactory.
Just before the boiling is completed, cool a large platter or a slab and moisten it by wetting it with a damp cloth.
Others are worked on a platter or a slab with the proper kind of utensil.
If such a device is used, plaster of Paris should be poured around the edge of the slab to fill any space between the wood and the slab.
When it is desired to pour out fudge, caramels, and similar candies to harden before cutting, the metal bars may be fitted together and then placed on the slab in such a way as to be most convenient.
Place all in a heap in the center of the slab or platter and cover closely with a damp cloth, a clean towel being desirable for this purpose.
Pour out on a slab or a platter to cool, and when perfectly cool begin to work it as for fondant, but first beat the egg whites until they are stiff.
When done, pour it out on a buttered slab or some other flat surface and allow it to become cool.
The spring could not be discovered, but crowbars and hammers being brought, the slab of stone was presently shivered.
In the meantime the search went on, and presently the hollow sound given by the slab in the wall was noticed.
Each slab is here automatically wrapped in wax and silver-foil papers.
On the center slab two are cut, one in the exact middle of either end.
In answer to my inquiries, the verger pulled up the matting and showed his slab inscribed with Bishop Ken’s[77] verses.
In front of the altar there is a large slabto William Lewis.
At the entrance of one stood a pillar of rock supporting an immense slab of lava, which formed an awe-inspiring portal.
The monument is surrounded by an iron railing, and consists of a slab bearing an inscription, simply stating in Swedish his name, the date of his death, &c.
Before a stone slab standing out black in the uncertain light, he paused.
Heedless of the icy water, the girl dropped upon one knee, seized a narrow slab of wood and began a vigorous dip-dip that in time, it seemed, must take them somewhere.
Calvert, the Petersburg slab artist, was in fine form to-day.
Then, with a change of pace, Petersburg’s slab artist offered a slow ball.
Next in order comes the slab covering the grave of Shakespeare himself, and following it that of Thomas Nash, husband of Elizabeth Hall, grand-daughter of the poet.
About fifteen paces from the central tower, and within its shadow, I found a weather-worn slab of marble, seven or eight feet long, the inscription on which interested me somewhat.
This consists of a slab of stone, on four small stone pillars, about two feet high.
The slab is inlaid with a brass plate, on which is sculptured the knight in armor, and the lady in the costume of Elizabeth's time, exceedingly well done and well preserved, and each figure about eighteen inches in length.
I saw no armed knights, asleep on the tops of their tombs; but there was a curious representation of a skeleton, at full length, under the table-slab of one of the monuments.
In the north aisle, precisely opposite to that of Queen Mary, the attendant pointed out to us the slab beneath which lie the ashes of Catharine of Aragon, the divorced queen of Henry VIII.
It must have been the rudest violence that broke down these stairs; for each step was a thick and heavy slabof stone, built into the wall of the tower.
Wordsworth has only the very simplest slab of slate, with "William Wordsworth" and nothing else upon it.
One wall, thirty feet long and ten feet high, was a nearly invisible, dustproof slabof polished, optically flat glass that gave the observer the feeling that there was nothing between him and the city street, five hundred feet below.
It was a two-inch-thick slab of armor steel on heavy, precision-bearing hinges.
Such tables the sun attacks more upon one side than upon the other, so that the slab inclines more and more to the south and may eventually slip down until its edges rest against the glacier surface.
Footprints of Dinosaurs on the Brownstone of the Connecticut Valley From a slab in the museum of Amherst College.
Finally the bishop consented to hang up a slab of hard, thoroughly seasoned wood, and this was struck with a mallet at the time of worship, to call the people together.
After quite a long interval, when the controversy was largely forgotten, this wooden slab was quietly exchanged for one of steel, and a clearer sound was obtained.
It was a huge slab that had once been a part of another huge rock which still stood upright.
She carries off this slab in her jaws and lays it, as a temporary door, over the opening of the burrow.
Another very fine slab found at this station, is at Cambridge.
On the slab covering the remains of the deceased person, the name and age were not unfrequently inscribed.
Now the station immediately west of Chesters is Carrawburgh, and here a slab and an altar have been found, inscribed with the name of this very cohort.
Another stone of still greater interest was found here, furnishing additional [Illustration: Part of Slab to Hadrian] evidence of the erection of the mile-castles by Hadrian.
Archæological Institute, with whom I had last year the pleasure and advantage of spending a day upon the Wall, I am indebted for the cuts representing the altar and slab discovered at Tynemouth.
A slab was found at Carvoran in 1816, and is now in the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which contains an exposition in iambic verse of the creed of a Roman tribune respecting the mother of the gods.
