Fastening Screws in Tile and Brick Walls A simple way to fasten screws in tile or brick walls is to drill holes, not too large, for the screws, then tear up some paper, wet it and make a pulp.
But the German, with his nearly air-tight double windows and his even more nearly sealed tile stove, spends the winter in an atmosphere suggestive of the descriptions that arctic travellers give us of the air in the hut of an Eskimo.
And you may also note, that the SPAWN of most fish is a very tempting bait, being a little hardened on a warm tile and cut into fit pieces.
This knife, resembling a small spade, was used to cut the trench in which tile was laid.
It is now in the room of portraits in the Uffizi, but much blackened by time; probably also from the tile not having been properly prepared.
Round the building was a yard, fenced with wooden palings; in it were a well near the apse, and a small structure of tile with a pit near the east end.
A variety of paving tile called "oven tiles" is of similar material to the ordinary red brick, and in size is 10 or 12 in.
Above this is glass tile or glazed tile, and above the tile is a faience or terra-cotta cornice.
At which Timothy extracts from the inside of his silk tile a billboard poster announcing the comin', for a limited engagement only, of those European tango wizards, Mons.
D'ye see, touch your tilewhenever a swob (officer) speaks to you.
If I could only touch my tile to him now, and take my Bible oath on it, that I was only taking off Priming, and not him, he wouldn't have such hard thoughts of me.
I could see the bold outlines of Glenarm House and its red-tile roofs; and the gray tower of the little chapel beyond the wall rose above the wood with a placid dignity.
He rocked gently back and forth, with his hands in his pockets, on the tile floor of the banking-house.
The dome and vault, the colossal portal-arches, and the use of brick and tileare evidences of this influence, bearing no resemblance to Byzantine or Arabic types.
Train, in its decorative treatment of brick and tile externally.
Elsewhere painted plaster or more durable enamelled tilein brilliant colors embellished the walls, and, doubtless, rugs and tapestries added their richness to this architectural splendor.
Hearing a noise, he looked up and beheld young Frohman with the tile tilted back on his head.
Frohman had never worn one since the Haverly Minstrel days, when he had to don the tile for the daily street parade.
The right wing, the Ninth, moved up the east side of Britain to Lincoln (tile of Legio ix.
The centre, the Fourteenth and Twentieth Legions, crossed the Midlands to Wroxeter and Chester (tile of Legio xx.
It should be surrounded with a wood mantel, with tile facing and hearth.
This mantel, like the one in the reception-room, should be of wood with tile hearth and facings.
No treatment of wood-work can add to the beauty of a large surface of tile facing.
The stones (in a part of the Roman wall of London) form a mere skin, between the tile bonding courses, to the thick irregular rubble core.
The latter stone was removed when the new tile pavement was laid down, and placed in the immediately adjacent wall.
On an encaustic tile at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, founded by him: The double-headed eagle only, countercharged.
Excellent in design are the tile stoves of Germany and Holland.
It was a golden day in the history of man when first a clayey paste was patted into a pot, a bowl, a kettle: then was laid the foundation of all that the potter, the brick maker, the tile molder have since accomplished.
It will do no harm to the land to drain it if there is a hard pan near the surface, but in order to make tile draining effective on such land, the drains will have to be at half the distance common on soils without the hard pan.
Will it do to tile drain land which has a hard pan of red clay twelve to eighteen inches below the surface?
This tile and brick decoration begins at a height of about eight feet from the ground, and is carried up from that point to the top of the wall.
The steeple is finished with a low square spire, covered with tiles, some green and some red, and each tile made of a pointed shape, so as to form a series of scallops.
There is an intersecting arcade under the lowest windows, in which, as also in some other parts, the ground of the panels is plastered; and in this plaster panels of tiles and single sunk disks of tile are inserted on the white ground.
He sprang on the tile floor, saying to himself that he would be warm at night.
He felt the chill of the tile flooring, and was afraid.
I was thinking that accidents happen daily, that a foot may slip, a tile may fall.
