It was built of solid masonry on a precipitous rock rising sheer out of the plain.
The most numerous and extensive ruins are on the southern portion of the hill, where a larger part of the uneven surface is formed into platforms or terraces by means of walls of solid masonry.
The last-described mounds form the transition to those constructions which are altogether built of solid masonry.
Above and between these arches all is solid masonry to the flat roof, giving to the apartments the air of galleries excavated in the solid mass, rather than enclosed by walls.
The walls were of solid masonry, of rectangular form, some twenty or thirty paces in length, were of solid masonry, and yet remaining ten or fifteen feet in height.
La Valette caused barriers of solid masonry to be raised across the streets for the protection of the citizens.
In the want of solid masonry, every material was resorted to for covering up the breaches.
They were filled with stately temples and elegant mansions; the squares were ornamented with fountains of elaborate workmanship; the rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
Our route now lay along a broad causeway of solid masonry.
The ruins of one of these cities, Pollanarua, are within half a mile of the village of Topari, and the waters of the adjacent lake are still confined by a dam of two miles in length, composed of solid masonry.
Valleys were closed in by immense dams of solid masonry, which, checking the course of the rivers, formed lakes of many miles in extent.
A lesson of sad experience led him to build of solid masonry.
He was very kind to us, but wanted to sell us the house in which he lived, a roomy, substantial building, with adjoining roofless walls of solid masonry of much larger extent.
Where the wall of the house is of solid masonry 12 inches or more thick, the chimney may be offset and carried on corbels or masonry brackets instead of being carried down to the ground.
The lower section of flue lining, unless resting on solid masonry at the bottom of the flue, should be supported on at least three sides by brick courses projecting to the inside surface of the lining.
Chimneys in frame buildings should be built from the ground up or should rest on the foundation or basement walls if of solid masonry 12 inches or more thick.
It rests upon twenty-three piers and two abutments of solid masonry, the central span being three hundred and thirty feet long.
Time appeared to be almost harmless in attacks against these vast piles of solid masonry.
The ramparts overlooking the town and harbour on the west face are 147 yards in length, exclusive of the tower, and the embrasures of solid masonry measured at the angle are generally twenty-four feet in thickness.
The granaries, of solid masonry, contain fourteen thousand loads of corn--they were built about two hundred and fifty years ago.
The alameda is crossed by a fine aqueduct of solid masonry, with light and elegant arches.
At a little distance an hacienda, like a deserted palace, built of solid masonry, with its inner patio surrounded by thick stone pillars, with great walls and iron-barred windows that might stand a siege.
Other parts of the building are of more remote date, and most of the walls are remarkably thick and of solid masonry: a peculiarity to be noticed; as the Welch castles are chiefly constructed of grout-work.
The small remains of its walls appear to consist of solid masonry; but this part of the fortification is, no doubt, posterior to the rest, and was most likely erected by the Normans.
Castle walls appear in some instances built of solid masonry; but their general construction is of grout work.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solid masonry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
