The structure was but the inevitableunderpinning for the desired display.
View under Ninth Avenue looking Southward from 100 feet South of center line, showingunderpinning of Ninth Avenue structure taken at sub-grade.
This is part of the high-pressure system, and the location and elevation of this water main were taken into consideration when the underpinning was designed.
South from North abutment, showing underpinning and excavation of rock core.
Trimmer, half-interested and examining what might be called theunderpinning of the island with keen preoccupation.
Here the sturdy underpinning of the desert isle caught upon a tiny reef and the island swung slowly around like a sleepy carrousel and rested from its travels.
At first it was believed that underpinning the central piers would secure the stability of the whole.
The series of basins of Alwalton marble was found, during the recent underpinning of the west front, in use as foundation stones; they appear to be of late Norman date.
The subject of the necessary underpinning for such simple structures as are here shown has been already treated in the preceding chapter.
Now the fecular sheet has found a new road to infamy--is advertising garters fit only to adorn the crummy underpinning of negro prostitutes.
And why should he not paint the legs of the Queen of Spain--or even the underpinning of the Queen of Hawaii--as well as her arms?
The steep slope of the rock surface toward the subway necessitated particular care in underpinning the footings.
He recommended the construction of a roof and an underpinning of stone for the walls.
The underpinning is done with hard-burned brick laid in good cement mortar extending to a depth of 12 inches below the original ground level.
The item next in importance was the underpinning of the walls with brick wherever it was needed.
For underpinning walls, as specified and as above limited, one dollar ($1) for each cubic foot.
On October 29 Mr Colton at my instance took measurements of the brickwork in underpinning and filling in cavities in the walls and of the excavation done by the contractors.
This work is to be carried on in conjunction with the underpinning of the walls, and is to be dependent upon the progress of the latter, the work being done as required by the person holding the contract for the underpinning.
Frequently, the excavation for the underpinning wall, which was taken out in sections from 30 to 40 ft.
A-frame, the legs of which rested in niches cut in the rock and on posts carried up the face of the underpinning wall, and the whole was stiffened with vertical tie-rods.
The girders in turn were supported on posts footed on the new underpinning of the adjacent columns.
She seated herself on the underpinning of the railing, close beside the bar, as though she were guarding it.
They passed some open lots, and then, on a pleasant rise of ground, they came to a stately residence, lifted still higher on its underpinning of granite blocks.
It is well to let the underpinning be a continuation of that of the house, and it may then be covered with brick or tile, or the conventional boards.
Often the house has to be moved on its foundations to meet this need, but that is not a difficult matter to accomplish, if the timbers are stanch and the underpinning steady.
Outside, on the leeward side of the house, the young men who couldn't get in stood restlessly, now dancing a jig, now kicking their huge boots against the underpinning to warm their toes.
In this company we now have the majesty of the law, the power of the press, and the underpinning of the American civilization all represented.
As the question commonly runs, "How high shall the top of the underpinning be?
The item for "Underpinning & altering the cellar" probably refers to the knocked-out original cross wall and the added parallel cross wall, although the reasons for the change will always remain a mystery.
Mercer probably referred to the latter in 1749 in his account with Thomas Barry: "Underpinning and altering the cellar.
We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock.
We reached there in about forty minutes and found that the torrent had washed out the underpinning of the bridge, and nothing was left but a few ties, the rails and the stringers.
Ordinarily, you could step across Peach Creek, but sometimes, after a heavy rain it would be a raging torrent of dirty muddy water, and it seemed as if the underpinning must surely be washed out by the flood.
There was no absolute danger, because the underpinning was firm enough, but all the same, every man jack of us wished he hadn't come.
Your way of underpinningthe track is pretty good, but I don't like that plan.
The defective underpinning had, however, been replaced or strengthened, and he expected that Kerr would test it soon.
So far, he did not apprehend much difficulty, but he would run some risk over the underpinning of part of the track.
However, it's my business to cut the logs and do the underpinning as well as I can.
The underpinning of my cradle was exactly like the wooden underpinning of a house, and consisted of a parallelogram, eighteen feet by ten feet, with timbers of about eight inches square.
After riding a hundred and fifty years on the Day Coach, Zeke finally reached Chicago with a stiff neck and swollen underpinning but meek as a mujik.
Philip Darlington gave Father the first Hoyo he had ever smoked and took the old gazunk completely off his underpinning by showing a knowledge of Industry and Finance that only a Fifteen Dollar New York clerk can possess.
