There was a clear space of three feet between him and the edge, but just as Steve drew abreast the older chap stepped forward in his path, and Steve, trying to dodge around him, slipped on the tiling and fell sidewise into the water.
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They, too, were countless in variety, from the merest kitchen areas and places of heaped refuse to lovely garden rooms of flowers and glazed tiling and fountains.
Two tall minarets, with simple straight lines, only a mosaic of green tiling let into their flat faces, cut the peaks of the mountains beyond.
This claim, so variously stated, is based upon the allegation that tiling and frames of greater thickness than were required by the contract were put in the building.
In neither contract was the weight of the tiling mentioned.
A square foot of the tiling actually put in is weighed, and a square foot of the tiling required by the contract is also weighed.
Thus additional weight in constructed and finished tilingis converted, as far as price and measurement are concerned, into finished tile, which more than doubles the quantity actually laid down.
Samples of thetiling to be put in were submitted to the Supervising Architect and accepted by him.
The introduction of tilingfor pavements and walls was evidently in a great measure due to English intercourse with Spain and the East.
The old style of mosaic tiling was represented by some specimens composed of small star-shaped and elongated hexagonal tiles.
Some beautiful heads of dogs, lions, and asses were marvellous examples of animal portraiture, and illustrated the capacity of tiling for the reception of that style of decoration.
The Valencian tiling was, as a rule, coarse and inartistic.
The finest specimens of Persian tiling at the Museum at Sevres are in blue and white, the latter forming the ground.
Twenty years had weathered the raw of brick walls, and painted the tiling with all manner of orange and rusty-coloured lichens; yet the whole place was admirably spick and span, free of litter.
This last, playing upon the blue-and-white, Dutch tiling of the hearth and chimney-space conferred a quaint effect of activity upon the actors in the biblical scenes thereon depicted.
The hotel is pleasant and the new bath house with its handsome marble and tiling is very fine.
With its tiling and mosaic work, its striking mottoes upon the walls, and its fine windows, it is very like an Italian church.
The walls and spandrils are tastefully adorned with stucco work of the trellis pattern, tiling and mosaic.
He says he is aware of no pisano tiling which can be dated from as late as the second half of the seventeenth century.
Unfortunately, even Gestoso is unable to point to any piece of tiling or other pottery now existing, as being unquestionably executed by this master.
Brick, stone, and mortar are the material used in construction, with black tiling for roofs.
For walks, the enclosures are covered with gravel, like the streets, or the natural soil serves the purpose of tiling or pavement.
The interior was brightened by beautiful blue and white tiling which lined the arches overhead and covered the immense piers that supported the roof.
As we stood on the marble pavement and gazed at the tilingmellowed by age, and at the round lead-covered dome above, the guide continued his explanations.
It appears that such tiling was frequently used in smaller edifices.
The roof sagged lower, and an avalanche of mortar and tiling slid into the court below.
The roof beneath the feet of the princess and Thorndyke trembled and sagged, and the tiling split and showered about them.
A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
Another salivation dampened the tiling as Nixon twisted his stocky torso about.
The tiling is modern, having been copied by Minton from the old work, both as to subject and arrangement.
The plain pavement in the choir is said to mark the site of the grave in the choir, but it is open to question whether there would be space for interment between the tiling and the upper side of the vaulting of the crypt.
The passage into which he first entered was high, but somewhat narrow; red tiling formed the floor, and the walls were tinted to correspond.
They laid hands upon the parapets and tore up the tiling and the sunburnt mud of which the house-tops were for the most part made, and with blind fury began to fling them upon the legionaries halted below.
The expense of ditching the land has been very great, amounting in some cases to ten dollars an acre, but now a machine digs the ditch, throws the dirt one side, lays the tiling and covers it up again.
Set into the tiling on the floor are nearly four hundred silver dollars that add nothing at all to the beauty of the floor.
Tiling halfway up will be found still better, buttiling paper, which costs more than painting, is scarcely to be chosen.
Some folk liketiling in the hall, and if we have little more than a vestibule, tiling is quite satisfactory.
Then he coats them with earth, ground very fine, like the clay for making our cups and saucers, and for making the beautiful white tiling on the walls at the stations of a city subway.
Water-logged soil should never be blasted except for the purpose of ditching it or tiling it so as to get it into a proper condition for blasting.
When the ditching or tiling has drained this subsoil, it may then be safely blasted.
He was a very friendly head waiter, and the dining-room was a long glare of the encaustic tiling which all Seville seems lined with, and of every Moorish motive in the decoration.
The space was strewn with brasses, fragments of fretted and carven doors, and splintered beneath a mass of tiling lay a great image of Kwan-on.
A section of tiling slid from the Chapel roof with a crash.
Beyond lay a sea of roofs, swelling gray billows of tiling spotted with green foam, from which steel factory chimneys lifted like the black masts of sunken ships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
