They came up at a charge bayonets; but a number of their guns were seized by the mob, as you might call it, and at this time, any number of stones were thrown.
Then the crowd commenced cheering, and I saw two or three bayonets twisted off, and then a lot of stones were thrown at the military.
Two hammer-stones were present, made from cylindrical nodules of flint.
Yacht was made fast to a set of moorings which had been laid down for her early in the season; and at 5, thirty artificers landed, when 10 stones were laid in two hours and a quarter.
The remains of a pair of old Roman mill-stones were found in the beginning of the last century at Adel in Yorkshire, a description of which was given by Thornsby[391], in the Philosophical Transactions.
At present no remains of it are left; so that Tozzetti was not able to discover the place where the alum-stones were broken[534].
In many public places, particularly highways, stones were erected, to which a rider could lead his horse in order to mount with more facility.
Abraxas-stones were so called from having the word Abraxas or Abrasax engraved on them.
There is little doubt that the greater part of the Abraxas-stones were made in the Middle Ages as talismans.
The figure of the bird merely gave security against the evil eye; it had no other effect, and for this purpose various engraved stones were used.
By provincial enactment in Governor Hutchinson's time, mile-stones were set on all the post-roads throughout Massachusetts.
After that highway was laid out, the placing and setting of the mile-stones were entrusted to Franklin, and he transacted the business, as he did everything else, in a thoroughly original way.
I have been told that mort-stones were set by the wayside in some towns, upon which the bearers could rest the heavy coffin for a short time on their way to the burial-place; but I find no record or proof of this statement.
Between the date of breaking ground and the time of the next succeeding conference of the Church, preparations for the laying of the corner-stones were carried on with determination and vigor.
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