Materials and a system of construction such as those we have described could only result, in a close style of architecture, in a style in which the voids bore but a very small proportion to the solids.
In Holland, the proportion of voids to solids is much greater than it is on the façade of a Parisian house, and the same tendency may be traced from one end of Europe to the other.
Another difficulty has to be noticed; classic literature does little or nothing to help us in filling up these voids and dissipating the obscurities they cause.
The vaults of burnt brick, though set without cement, have remained unshaken and close in their joints, and the sewers they inclose are the only voids that have remained clear in the ruins of the buildings to which they belong.
Judging, however, from the ruins and from the usual proportions of height and width in the voids of Assyrian buildings, the doors at Khorsabad must have risen to a height of between fifteen and twenty-two feet.
Now he clung to her with a desperation that was terrible, as though to let go of her would be to fall into nameless voids beyond human companionship and love.
Moreover, the volume of sand and cement together is generally assumed to be equal to that of the sand alone, as the cement to a large extent fills upvoids in the sand.
For this purpose a large can, whose volume is known, is filled loosely with stones, and the volume of the voids between them is determined by measuring how much water the can will hold in addition to the stones.
It is this break in the history of the human race which amazes and daunts us, which "shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation.
We have said that the sun would in time become as icy cold and dead as the moon, and then the earth would wander darkling in the voids of space.
He has given his hand to science, and been lifted up above the earth into the voids of infinite space.
What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?
These voids are filled with air or water, as the case may be, and we may stop for a moment to inquire the effect of the presence of this air and water.
The water, which will occupy the voids in the stone, represents the necessary sand.
Only the hardest rocks are entirely solid, the others containing a certain percentage of voids or interstices.
Use enough cement to fill the voids in the gravel or in the sand and stone mixture employed, and have enough sand in the gravel or with the stone to fill the voids in the stone.
Through vast voidsplanets were rushing on their courses; suns with attendant systems swung on measured arcs obedient to--what?
They filled her with a terrifying sense of the illimitable, those silences, vivid as though she, a lonely soul, were travelling through vastvoids of time and space.
Populated by humans and their robots, colonies extended from the voids above Mercury and Venus through the Asteroids, the satellites of the gas planets, to Planet Pluto.
Right, and we think they've concluded that INOR is in a strong position to run its territories and voids without any more interference from them.
He breathed the biting air cleaned by leagues of lifeless barrens and voids of crackling frost till he ached with the exhilaration of a perfect morning on the Circle.
So swiftly were the changes wrought, that before the mind had grasped their import the storm was on them, roaring down from every side, swooping out of the boiling sky, a raging blast from the voids of sunless space.
The pipe was all of a 1-4 sand and cement mortar, and the amount of cement in one foot of pipe was arrived at by assuming that where the sand has voids in excess of the cement used, the mortar will occupy 1.
From time to time, as the work progressed, experiments were made to determine the percentage of voids both in the sand and the crushed stone; and, in this way, uniformity in composition was secured.
The voids in fine-grained shales may equal in volume those in sandstones and limestones, but the openings are so small and discontinuous that the water does not flow freely.
In such cases there has obviously been large reduction in volume to close the voids created by the elimination of substances.
The voids in some surface materials may amount to 84 per cent of the total volume.
The decoction of acorns and the bark made in milk and taken, resists the force of poisonous herbs and medicines, as also the virulency of cantharides, when one by eating them hath his bladder exulcerated, and voids bloody urine.
And being mingled with honey and salt, it voids phlegm out of the lungs, and purges melancholy by the stool.
It not only voids hot, choleric, and other offensive humours, but eases the pains and torments of the belly coming thereby; and are therefore used in all clysters conducing to those purposes.
A few grout pipes were built in, and allvoids outside the concrete were grouted.
The least voidsoccur when the voids between the large particles are filled with smaller particles and when these smaller voids between the smaller particles are in turn filled with still finer particles.
Note that the Smaller Shot Cover more than Half as much again as the Larger Shot and the Voids are Smaller.
Pigments which are coarse and which present an angular crystalline structure, often produce films which contain a relatively large number of voids and are less waterproof.
It follows that the least density and hence the largest percentage of voidsoccur when the grains are all of the same size, and it is shown that the most voids occur in a mass of large particles.
The law of minimum voids to be observed in constructing a paint formula--this law having already been accepted as mathematically correct and technically proved in the technology of concrete and cement.
This action is possibly due to the filling of the voids in the oil, thus making a compact and water-resistant film.
Enough water should be sprinkled on to wash in and fill all voids between the broken stones with binding material and to leave such material damp enough to insure a set.
When they are contracted the defects of their armour is most visible in those who have it composed of the smallest number of pieces; the three banded then shews two large voids betwixt the bucklers and the armour on the back.
Injure not modest blood, while spirits rise In judgment against lewdness; that's base wit That voids but filth and stench.
Fain would I have it tried By experiment, By none can be denied; If in this bulk of nature, There be voids less or greater, Or all remains complete?
To the production of a homogeneous impression the arrangement of plan, the proportion of storeys, the contrasts of voids and solids, and above all the outline of the entire building, should be devoted.
Architects are turning anew to the lost tradition of symmetry and to a scientific study of the relation between voids and masses, and the decorator's task has become correspondingly easier.
She carefully thought over every minute in the past few months, and did her utmost to fill up the voids in her memory, and at last she guessed who the guilty person was.
The voids outside the iron lining of the sump and the pump chamber were filled as completely as possible with concrete, and then thoroughly grouted.
Except as previously noted, the voids outside of the tunnel lining were filled with grout ejected through the grout holes in each segment.
The use of dry lime in the face, where the escaping air would carry it into the voids of the sand and choke them, was much more promptly efficacious in checking the loss.
In fact, the voids made by those runs eventually worked up to the surface and caused the pavement of the alley between the buildings to drop 4 or 5 ft.
In placing the polings and breasting, allvoids behind them were filled as far as possible with marsh hay or bags of sawdust or clay.
It was not of great efficiency, however, in this respect until the voids outside of the lining had been filled above the crown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
