Above ran a terraced roof flagged with huge slabs of stone.
The wheels of the cars sound upon the stone slabs of the streets, and already the people are hurrying in compact bodies to the river bank, to cross it and reach the parade ground.
She had also had the old fireplaces covered up and marble slabs set.
Where any epitaph was set up--an immense number are destitute of any inscription at all--it is always painted or engraved on these slabs or tiles.
As our slabs are far more archaic than those at Palenque, we think we are justified in calling them earlier in time--the parent samples of the later ones.
The floor, which in the palace is but a layer of plaster, is laid down here with beautiful slabs 9 feet 9 inches on one side by 5 feet by 7 inches thick.
These heads were obtained by means of slabs enclosed in the wall as stays to the cement, which was modelled by the sculptor whilst in this soft state.
Two pilasters supported the roof, and formerly were covered with inscriptions or sculptured slabs representing various subjects; these flags have been broken or taken away, and not one remains in loco.
For even now the only lights the natives use are ocotes, pieces of resinous wood, whilst the slabs bear no traces of smoke.
Silence called me and the tutor and proposed a walk to the granite slabs at the far end.
Then, suddenly, the trees fell away, and we emerged, hot and breathless, upon the rocky point where the granite slabs ran bare into the sea.
In one of these, called narthpimi, a flat slab of stone is supported horizontally on two other slabs fixed perpendicularly in the ground so as to form a narrow tunnel, through which a man can just manage to wriggle his body with difficulty.
Small models of pots, slabs of stone such as are used for beating the wet clothes on, and other articles used in their work, are made in rice and flour paste.
Some of the slabs were cracked open, revealing deep holes.
The boys usually sat on seats, slabs on blocks of wood, along the wall at the far end of the room, which was comfortable, for they had a rest for their backs.
When he returned, he brought a bowl of eggs cooked in clarified butter, two slabs of bread, and a great jug of water, apologising for the coarseness of the fare.
We all three breakfasted on slabs of country bread and a great bowl of curds, and then went out to view that old man's land.
Even as he spoke, a soldier entered with a tray on which were slabs of Arab bread, a pitcher of sour milk, and heaps of grapes.
It tears immense granite slabs from the cliffs and carries them along.
No matter how far we crawled beneath the jumbled slabs the wind found us out.
I spied a rock-slide below--great slabs that had slid down from the cliff above--between openings amply large to admit almost any animal.
This graveyard, with its ruinous walls, its mangy riot of unwholesome weeds, its corpses festering in slime beneath neglected slabs in hollow chambers, and the mephitic wash of poisoned waters that surround it, inspires the horror of disgust.
Broad slabs for seats are also common by the wayside.
The flat slabs were generally of slate or hornstone; but many of them, and all the larger ones, were of syenitic granite, split by heat and cold water with great art.
We ought to revive the Greek custom of roofing with thin slabs of coarse marble, cut into the form of tiles.
When this is the case, the flat slabs of the upper limestone (ragstone) are usually better than slate.
On these were laid thick slabs of oak and hickory, riven out of logs drawn from the grove near by.
The former trail led them around a jutting point of rock, then over boulders, irregular slabs and crags, obliging them to pick their way with caution and cling to the life line.
Here and there slabs of granite might be seen cropping up through the soil; in the distance, now and then, they were able to catch glimpses of the bare ridges of the mountains toward which they were journeying.
That was when they came to a place where there were steep slabs of granite with no hand-holds.
On the next day, they encamped at a town in the houses of which was found much silver in large slabs twenty feet long, one broad, and one or two fingers thick.
It is made of slabs of iron nailed to an oak frame-work, and liberally braced across with hinges and diagonal cross-straps, stiffening the door in the best way known at the time.
Have always used pine slabs and pieces of our neighbor's fence.
Bridges cross the affluents, flatslabs of stone on a pair of beams between rather high slightly overhanging piers of stone.
We found that there actually were three quadrangular walls constructed of slabs of schist, probably of very ancient date.
In some boats sand was laid on the bottom and slabs of stone, where a fire could be kindled and tea infused.
Then we ascended a valley, in which a small strip of ice gradually expanded into a cake, filling all the space between the firm slabs of greenstone.
There, beside the still waters of Black Pond, was a small shack rudely knocked together from rough pine slabs and chinked with moss.
In the wall of the aisle, proceeding east, note two slabs which are said to have been brought from Selsey Cathedral.
The restored church has a number of iron grave slabs and a monument to Martha Cogger, who was a "Pattern of Piety and Politeness.
Note the stone slabs outside the porch; these were brought from Bosham by a former incumbent.
Not more than twelve slabs may be laid on edge, according to the rules of the government.
Moreover, if the reader says that gold is not usually "put up" in slabs of the dimensions that I give, I can only claim problematic licence.
In this we may exactly pack the remaining eight slabs on edge, end to end.
The most familiar form of the sacred tree is that employed by the Assyrians, to a certain extent as a decorative ornament, on the sculptured slabs that adorned the walls of the royal palaces.
Similar figures are shown on the slabs in the British Museum (Nimroud Gallery) standing before the sacred tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slabs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
