They serve to define the arch and keep it distinct in effect from the walling around it.
All these courses are on the same plane; and probably another rim of the arch is concealed by the walling which has been filled in underneath.
Five minutes' run brought them to the place where the masons were at work walling up the entrance to some old workings.
We may catch him in time to stop him yet," Jack said, "if he has gone round to look at the walling of the old goafs.
Walling wax, a composition of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, and the like.
In using these words figuratively, rampart is properly applied to that which protects by walling out; bulwark to that which stands in the forefront of danger, to meet and repel it.
The peaks walling in Horse Thief to the north were not so high but no less precipitous and barren, while to the west a jumble of splintered pinnacles whose bases barred the way were still lost in the witch-dance of the clouds.
Walling charged on them alone, and with one terrible blow, his club sent the leader to the pavement with his brains oozing out.
Captain Walling in one instance saw a crowd with fire-arms standing in an alley-way.
Walling had some sharpshooters with him, to pick off those beyond the reach of the clubs.
Soon five hundred policemen, ten or fifteen of them on horseback, appeared under the command of Inspectors Walling and Jamieson, and occupied both sides of Twenty-ninth Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.
The church has disappeared entirely, with the exception of a bit of the south-west walling of the nave and a Norman doorway in it.
And, when the small boat drew nearer, those aboard the gasoline craft saw that they were to receive the same Lieutenant Walling who had before paid them a visit.
She certainly has some spirit," murmured lieutenantWalling to Cora.
The erstwhile commander of the rebelling forces was locked in his stateroom, until Lieutenant Walling was reinforced, when others of the leaders were put in irons.
So it occurred to me," Lieutenant Walling went on, "that I might continue the chase in the Tartar.
As the Tartar approached the fort at the harbor entrance, Lieutenant Walling looked through the glass at several flags flying from a high pole.
Francesco; whether the walling under the Casa Porti belongs to them is doubtful.
The lower portion of the outer walls, which probably did not stand free, is built of roughly hewn blocks of a limestone which naturally splits into horizontal layers; above this in places is walling of rectangular blocks of tufa.
Pembroke Keep, on the other hand, rises without buttress or spur or concentric walling straight from a battering base at the ground-level to a height of about 70 feet to the spring of the vaulted roof.
A portion of this walling undoubtedly furnished part of the western defence of the Norman citadel, inasmuch as remains have been found adjacent to the present Wakefield Tower.
The Shell Keep represents the second development of the Norman Castle, and consists of a circular or polygonal ring of stone walling erected upon the motte in the position formerly occupied by the wooden palisading.
Thus any assailants would have most formidable obstacles to encounter on attacking either the eastern or western faces, two moats and three successive lines of walling being opposed to their efforts.
The outer roof over the triforium evidently shared the fate of the other coverings; and the arched abutment in the triforium, which acted as a support to this roof and the walling below the clerestory, now disappeared.
Beneath the windows just described there are two small single-light openings in each portion of walling on either side of the central buttress.
In the fourth bay, above the point of the window arch, the curve of the original apse of the ambulatory is just traceable; but beyond this point eastwards the twelfth-century walling has disappeared until we meet it again in the lady-chapel.
This window is in the bay of aisle walling immediately against the transept wall.
The first, second, and third bays from the east side of the transept have still the round-arched windows of the twelfth century set in the walling of the same date.
The reason for the presence of so much new walling at this level is no doubt to be found in the fact that the roof timbers at the time of the second fire were carried down over the walls.
Part of the walling for a few feet below the parapet was renewed at the same time.
But in the next place, the walling began to bulge towards the end of January 1861, first in the north-west pier, and afterwards in the south.
The oldest part of the building to be seen from this point is the strip of wallingat the clerestory level.
I also omitted the partial walling up of the belfry windows, which may be seen in old views.
In the same area of walling there are shown the levels of the cut string-course that ran along under the sills of the twelfth-century aisle windows.
The work in each arcade is recessed quite seven inches from the face of the general walling above; and the multiplied detail in the mouldings is finely studied.
These served a double purpose: they acted as supports to the timber framework of the aisle roofs, and also as a means of buttressing the upper part of the nave walling in which the clerestory windows were placed.
The shore of the Pacific Ocean for many miles north of San Diego is a succession of rounding promontories, walling the mouths of canons, down many of which small streams make to the sea.
The light was still burning in the light-house on the promontory walling the inner harbor, but in a few moments more it would be day.
Two such crests and valleys they had passed; this was the broadest of the three valleys, and the hills walling it were softer and rounder of contour than any they had yet seen.
This brick and stone walling is, so far as could be ascertained, homogeneous right up to the domical vault and the dome.
As there was now no hope of any improvement in her affairs, Lady Hester decided to execute her threat of walling up her gateway, a proceeding which, she was unable to perceive, injured nobody but herself.
It must be owned that there is a touch of unconscious humour in Lady Hester's terrible threat of walling herself up, a proceeding which would only make herself uncomfortable and leave her enemies at peace.
It is not for me, who am but a boy, to judge the doings of my elders; but it seems to me that this walling of cities is altogether wrong.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence.
Some interesting examples of hollow walling occur in the construction of the Parthenon.
They used mortar of great cementing power, so much so that many specimens of Roman walling exist in this country as well as in Italy or France, where the mortar is as hard as the stones which it unites.
It is worthy of remark that the tympanum over the sub-arches is flush with the lower part of the wall, and that the comprising arches, with all the walling above them, are a plane in advance.
Though the aisles differ so much, the clearstorey is much the same on this side as on the other, and again one of Archbishop Roger's buttresses is visible, imbedded between the Perpendicular walling and the west tower.
Walling the beach on either side, and extending well out into the water so that the farthest piles were awash except for their crowns, were pillars of stone, shaped with the same finish as that slab which had provided them a ladder of escape.
The mist crept across the field from all quarters, walling them in.
In Sussex County the settlement of the Walling brothers, where Joseph Walling kept an inn, now Hamburg, N.
The last named are the ancestors of the Walling family in this town.
The murder of the widow Walling in 1758 was mentioned in the Philadelphia Gazette and in New York papers in that year and made a profound impression throughout the colonies.
They too are a little tender in the open, although they are safe in dry-walling with the roots out of the way of frost and the crowns kept dry among the stones.
Both this and the left-hand bank have a few courses of rough dry-walling next the path on its lowest level.
In hot weather in summer it is very difficult to work the process, the walling wax being discarded and the copper (back and edges protected by varnish) placed in a porcelain tray, surrounded by ice-water and kept at 65 to 70 deg.
Remove the walling wax, clean off the varnish with chloroform or turpentine, or alcohol first, and chloroform last.
Thus the earliest architectural features of the existing Minster above ground are the Early English transepts, and nothing remains of those vanished early buildings save some dubious Saxon masonry and Norman walling in the crypt.
That the perceptions of those who built the choir were blunted is proved by the almost flat roof their ambition for loftywalling has necessitated.
