In watching the process, Somerset noticed that on the stonework behind the web sundry names and initials had been cut by explorers in years gone by.
Then they stepped out on to the narrow pathway along the battlements, fastened one end of the rope round a piece of stonework and let the other end drop down into the fosse.
The evening was bitterly cold, and his teeth chattered as he lay, cautiously putting his head beyond the edge of the stonework every time he heard any one leaving the palace.
Jack hoped that his new stonework was sufficient to protect the logs at the base of the blockhouse.
Lighted matches had been attached to the barrels, and with the bursting of these by the stonework the resin they contained had taken fire.
But we had enough trouble with the wall, and the natives are so little used to stonework that perhaps after all they'd have made a poor job of it.
Guersaint raised her into a sitting posture, and then for his part climbed upon the stonework running from one to the other end of the quay.
The rapid crack of an automatic pistol and the splaying of bullets against the stonework gave Seton and his companion warning that their work had not been thorough.
To enable German troops to gain the stone portion of the Mole they must needs cross an iron pier connecting the stonework with the mainland.
The use of surface plaster is largely responsible for the deterioration of stonework that has taken place since the beginning of the historic period.
The inner and the outer moat of Sycherth are still more or less perfect, and there are even yet, or were not long ago, plain traces of stonework beneath the turf.
A friend of the writer, who lived to an advanced age, was told in his youth by old men in the neighbourhood that they could remember when there was a good deal of stonework to be seen lying about.
The stonework will be nearly finished by to-morrow.
They will put up the stonework and leave the roof till the next clergyman comes, and say they will put no fire-place in it and then no one can use it as a house.
This passage he formed into a grotto, having a front of rude stoneworkopposite to the river and decorated within with spars, ores, and shells.
In the corner of the court, on the opposite side of the portico to the dog Maida, is a fountain, with some similar relics reared on the stonework around it.
This splendidstonework is characteristic of the Middle Kingdom; we find it also in the temple of Mentuhetep III at Thebes.
The only possible damage that can accrue to it is the partial discolouration of the lower courses of the stonework of Pharaoh's Bed, etc.
In many cases we stood appalled at the changes made high up the valley, and the manner in which masses of stonework had been swept along.
The arms of the cross are supported by wrought-iron chains, fixed to the stonework of the great arch, on the rood loft.
It contains no less than five altars, three of which are under the arches of three screens, the stonework of which is probably the oldest in Lubeck, and to which I should assign the date of the middle of the thirteenth century.
The stonework of the house was strong, and the guns were light.
The stonework of one of the windows was broken, and two or three stones in the wall cracked.
Some of the older stonework is to be found in the stables and cottages now occupying the site of the offices on the west of the court.
We may in the sheltered stonework of these chapels observe that the whole surface of the wrought stone has been covered with a film of plastering upon which coloured decorations are still traceable here and there.
There are traces of the use of stonework of earlier date than in these buildings.
Turning sideways, she leaned both hands on the stonework and stared down into the water.
They reached to the lower edge of the stonework merely, leaving blottings of impenetrable shadow below.
Among all this dark stonework one is conscious now and then of little pink touches which examination shows to be the feet of reposing pigeons.
The stonework was for the most part but little injured, but the interior had been gutted by fire, and the empty windows looked mournfully out on the fair prospect.
The battlements are of pierced stonework of a common Perpendicular pattern.
The actual stonework and carving of the choir were considerably injured, and the glass of the great east window itself only just avoided destruction.
Britton conjectures that the unfinished state of the stonework on the north side of the choir beneath the window shows that a cloister or other low building was intended in this part, which was never executed.
The bays are marked by plain aisle buttresses, terminating in three-cornered caps, with a battlement of cusped stonework ornamented with finials behind them.
The stonework of the pinnacles and buttresses is much decayed, and constantly requires renewal.
Earls' Barton and Barnack churches both have towers so covered with narrow projecting strips of stonework that the surface of the walls appears divided into rudely formed panels.
I am doing this because he caught a chill early in the year while putting up some stonework of a music-hall, at Quartershot, which he had to do in the rain, the work having to be executed by a fixed day.
Nothing survives but a few columns of Athene's temple built into a Christian church, with here and there the marble masonry of a bath or the Roman stonework of an amphitheatre.
A gentleman gave it to me for assisting him out of the water, after his sloop had been wrecked against the stonework of the bridge.
At a door, that has been broken through the massive stonework where it was meant to be strongest, some contadini are winnowing grain.
The last stones of the crown surrounding the base of the dome have been laid, marking the conclusion of the stonework of the superstructure of the holy edifice.
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