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  • It was one of those huge houses originally built for Victorian millionaires, all turrets and twiddly bits of masonry and fancy brickwork.†   (source)
  • I'd also learned in Fallujah to keep my helmet cinched tight, wary of the chips and cement frags that flew from the battered masonry during a firefight.†   (source)
  • I stepped out into a broader patch of sunlight and approached an altar stripped of all decoration except for chips and cracks caused by falling masonry.†   (source)
  • Over the years he'd learned every trade he could get close to—fishing, ship rigging, painting, framing, masonry, plumbing, roofing, tile work, even auto repair.†   (source)
  • I took the mural team to the Goez Art Studio on First Street in East L.A. The leading artists behind the Estrada Courts Housing Projects mural program were based there, and they showed us how to prepare the walls, whether masonry, stucco or wood.†   (source)
  • He said he lugged pails of water back and forth, dragged bags of masonry cement and builder's sand heavier than himself.†   (source)
  • Only a few lamps were on in the streets, hanging from masonry arches above the alleyways.†   (source)
  • More and more buildings lost their window panes, there were round holes in the walls where they suffered a hit, and corners of masonry were knocked off.†   (source)
  • Unlike the city of the Viceroys where the houses were made of masonry, here they were built of weathered boards and zinc roofs, and most of them rested on pilings to protect them from the flooding of the open sewers that had been inherited from the Spaniards.†   (source)
  • Alyssa took care of the masonry almost single-handedly with the power of the earth god.†   (source)
  • I knew that the man who inscribed it had foreseen these ruins and did not want his masonry identified with the wrong era.†   (source)
  • Chapter 34 — AND THE WALLS FELL …… The sound of crashing masonry caused Eragon to pause and look back.†   (source)
  • Ten million bobbing heads that ride above the tideline of taxi stripes, all brain-waved differently, and yes the street abounds in idiosyncrasy, in the human veer, but you have to go to roof level to see the thing distinct, preserved in masonry and brass.†   (source)
  • Some passages were rustic, adorned with nothing but their modest masonry, while others were more like the hallways in a castle or museum, with tapestries, framed antique maps, and oil paintings hanging from the walls.†   (source)
  • A masonry bridge arched over a narrow canal just ahead of them.†   (source)
  • Scaffolds had been erected, and men of different trades worked diligently, repairing roof rafters, shoring up timbers, chipping away the deteriorated masonry, and cleaning the twisted metal and concrete debris.†   (source)
  • They passed several sets of switchback stairs leading to great houses on the bluffs above, some of masonry pinned to the cliff face with steel, some of wood bolted to deep pylons and vertical concrete beams.†   (source)
  • As fresh air rushed in through the broken masonry, the fire surged upward.†   (source)
  • With a gathering trickle of pebbles and masonry, Alex began to sink.†   (source)
  • There were no windows, only patches of blue light shooting from dents in the masonry, the dead blue light proper for use in blackouts.†   (source)
  • I saw iron posts and blocks of masonry go rocketing up hundreds of feet, and smash against the windows of Orthanc.†   (source)
  • In the middle of what once had been solid masonry at the far end was an iron gate through which he could see the windows of a house on the other side of i:he wall.†   (source)
  • Instantly, the room was a tornado of flying glass, chairs, masonry, articles of clothing, and human limbs.†   (source)
  • …turned upon the irony of civilizations being consolidated by violent and powerful conquerors who end up commissioning the artists and the architects, he began to associate the sight of a mother bird feeding its young with the image of the honey bee, an image deeply lodged in poetic tradition and always suggestive of the ideal of an industrious, harmonious, nurturing commonwealth: The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies.†   (source)
  • The windows and doorways, without architraves or wooden facings, were like holes unevenly cut out of the masonry.†   (source)
  • The shelling has shaken it up a bit, you can see where the masonry has come loose.†   (source)
  • Ever tried your hand at masonry?†   (source)
  • Although thought transmission was too faint to penetrate masonry, the average plastic apartment unit was too flimsy to block this transmission.†   (source)
  • cracks in the masonry from a shifting foundation
  • Most of the original masonry has been replaced.
  • What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal, in huge plates,   (source)
    masonry = stone or brick parts of a structure such as a building or wall
  • I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that...   (source)
    masonry = stone wall
  • At the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a sluice for the bath water, and as Rikki-tikki stole in by the masonry curb where the bath is put, he heard Nag and Nagaina whispering together outside in the moonlight.   (source)
    masonry = stone or brick
  • She says Masonry is some kind of strange religion.†   (source)
  • Masonry crashes into the streets; the city falls to pieces; still this one house does not fall.†   (source)
  • Thirty-three are the degrees of Masonry.†   (source)
  • The masonry weathered the storm just fine, but the windows and wood need refinishing or replacing.†   (source)
  • Masonry, however, is batting zero for three.†   (source)
  • They lift broken masonry blocks, shovel dust and shattered glass through strainers.†   (source)
  • He jammed his knee against the masonry and let out a gasp.†   (source)
  • I understand that Masonry probably appears strange to you, or maybe even boring.†   (source)
  • The scrawny bird raced up a pile of garbage and rubble and into a cave of coral and masonry.†   (source)
  • "Nonetheless," the woman said, "Masonry is a powerful organization from which women are excluded."†   (source)
  • The myth of the staircase was purely symbolic …. part of the great allegories of Masonry.†   (source)
  • The stairwell was a cramped corkscrew of masonry, no more than six feet in diameter.†   (source)
  • As they walked, Hazel ran her hands along the masonry.†   (source)
  • The enormous ants shook off the remaining bits of masonry.†   (source)
  • Clary glanced over the masonry bridge that spanned the nearby canal.†   (source)
  • The hag blinked at Bob, who might have been a bandaged pile of masonry.†   (source)
  • Max glanced up to see a piece of masonry crashing toward them.†   (source)
  • He could not see them, but he could still hear roars and the crash of breaking masonry.†   (source)
  • Rubble was strewn all about it: great chunks of shattered masonry, burned beams, broken gargoyles.†   (source)
  • Late spring sunlight shone through the breaks in the masonry and through the barred door, shocking in its brightness, and Scarlett blinked and covered her eyes at the suddenness of the glare.†   (source)
  • The tower of the church looked as if wind and weather had been wearing the masonry down for a dangerously long time.†   (source)
  • As ever, with their usual systematic approach to everything, they still had time to demolish the masonry of the ghetto, now 'cleansed' of its people.†   (source)
  • Masonry arches stretched from one side of the street to the other, as if to prevent the walls from collapsing.†   (source)
  • At the back corner of the cellar, Volkheimer drags blocks of masonry and pieces of timber and shattered sections of wall out of the rubble, stopping now and then only to lean over his knees and catch his breath.†   (source)
  • Like all of his Masonic brothers, he had worn the ritual "hoodwink" during his ascent to the upper echelons of Masonry.†   (source)
  • "Well, I've read a lot about Masonry, and I know you've got a lot of strange ancient rituals and beliefs.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Masonry is open to men of all races, colors, and creeds, and provides a spiritual fraternity that does not discriminate in any way.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, the rites and degrees of Masonry were a complex hierarchy that Langdon had no desire to detail for Sato tonight.†   (source)
  • There's always been conspiratorial conjecture that a select few within this highest echelon of Masonry are made privy to some great mystical secret.†   (source)
  • "Brethren," Peter's familiar voice declared, "in the name of the Great Architect of the Universe, I open this lodge for the practice of Masonry in the first degree!"†   (source)
  • "My staff said that while cross-checking the concepts of the 'thirty-third degree' and 'portal' with Masonry, they turned up literally hundreds of references to a 'pyramid'?"†   (source)
  • As the dean began outlining the interrelationship between Masonry and Rosicrucianism, Langdon felt his attention drawn back to the same nagging thought he'd had all night.†   (source)
  • Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.†   (source)
  • "Professor Langdon," called a young man with curly hair in the back row, "if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?"†   (source)
  • Freemasonry, like Noetic Science and the Ancient Mysteries, revered the untapped potential of the human mind, and many of Masonry's symbols related to human physiology.†   (source)
  • Masonry is anti religious?†   (source)
  • Pressing a shining dagger to the initiate's bare chest …. threatening impalement should the initiate "inappropriately reveal the Mysteries of Masonry" …. describing the black-and-white floor as representing "the living and the dead" …. outlining punishments that included "having one's throat cut across, one's tongue torn out by its roots, and one's body buried in the rough sands of the sea …."†   (source)
  • So after flipping through a library book about masonry, he went to the hardware store and bought two sacks of ready-mix cement.†   (source)
  • During the rebuilding of Rowan, Max had learned a fair bit of carpentry and masonry and now he bemoaned the lack of a good hammer or plane or even nails that were straight and free of rust.†   (source)
  • He'd glimpsed some ruins along the banks, piles of masonry overgrown by vines and moss and flowers, but no other signs of human habitation.†   (source)
  • There was no way to dive or squeeze through without running the risk of being crushed to pulp between the sliding masonry.†   (source)
  • She thought she heard more screams from inside the windowless storehouse, muffled by the masonry, but it was hard to be certain.†   (source)
  • He'd forgotten to buy any masonry tools, so he used a wheelbarrow to mix the cement and a spade to apply it.†   (source)
  • When she finished, pushed the papers aside and glanced up, the sky was black beyond the window, and the city had become a glowing spread of lighted glass without masonry.†   (source)
  • Another tremor shook the palace, knocking debris from the walls in little avalanches of rubble and broken masonry.†   (source)
  • The statue grew so warm and bright that Annabeth could see more details of the shrine—the Roman masonry that had probably once been gleaming white, the dark bones of Arachne's past victims and meals hanging in the web, and the massive cables of silk that connected the floor to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • He was about to raise the tequila to his lips in his nightly ritual of self-medication when he suddenly became angry-so angry that he turned and hurled the bottle against the hearth's cinder block masonry, shattering the glass and splattering the clear alcohol.†   (source)
  • The handiwork of Men of old could still be seen in its straight sure flight and level course: now and again it cut its way through hillside slopes, or leaped over a stream upon a wide shapely arch of enduring masonry; but at last all signs of stonework faded, save for a broken pillar here and there, peering out of bushes at the side, or old paving-stones still lurking amid weeds and moss.†   (source)
  • Finally, with a sudden, rush and thunder, and a shake that nearly flung them off their feet, about a quarter of the roof at one end of the room fell in, great blocks of masonry fell all round them, and the walls rocked.†   (source)
  • Roran ducked as a stone the size of a hog flew past overhead and glanced off the front of a house, scattering pieces of masonry through the air.†   (source)
  • The dragon howled with pain and dashed his head against the wall, bringing huge blocks of masonry crashing down about them.†   (source)
  • When he looked up, he caught a glimpse of pale faces peering from behind the battlements of the Gatehouse Tower and through the broken masonry that crowned the Children's Tower, where legend said the children of the forest had once called down the hammer of the waters to break the lands. of Westeros in two.†   (source)
  • Others slammed into the wall, rearing up like great spiders to tear frantically at the battlements and masonry.†   (source)
  • Some of thefallen masonry was so big, he had to use magic to move it, but for the most part he was able to use his hands.†   (source)
  • Pieces of cracked masonry—some as large as Saphira herself—lay scattered throughout the grass; Eragon was relieved she had avoided striking any.†   (source)
  • Its eastern face stood up in three great tiers from a shelf in the mountain-wall far below; its back was to a great cliff behind, from which it jutted out in pointed bastions, one above the other, diminishing as they rose, with sheer sides of cunning masonry that looked north-east and south-east.†   (source)
  • And there was no gateway anywhere and no pointed arch; only the dark unbroken masonry.†   (source)
  • With this thick mud he plastered over his masonry, and smoothed it with his palm.†   (source)
  • The heavy lips laid together like masonry.†   (source)
  • Glass and masonry had followed its rise, covering the rest of the long streak slashed through space.†   (source)
  • It had passed the line where the masonry ended behind her.†   (source)
  • The pearl light fell coolly upon the fruity architecture, on the pyramided masonry of spit-bright wine-saps, the thin sharp yellow of the Florida oranges, the purple Tokays, sawdust-bedded.†   (source)
  • …mother's life and never to be permitted to forget it, and raised by the same spinster aunt who tried to force not only the elder sister's bridegroom but the wedding too down the throat of a town which did not want it, growing up in that closed masonry of females to see in the fact of her own breathing not only the lone justification for the sacrifice of her mother's life, not only a living and walking reproach to her father, but a breathing indictment ubiquitous and even transferable…†   (source)
  • An enormous hole in the ground, a pile of masonry, some bits of flesh and mucus, a foot, with the boot still on it, flying through the air and landing, flop, in the middle of the geraniums–the scarlet ones; such a splendid show that summer!†   (source)
  • I looked at the second face and saw, all of a sudden, the heavyish lips laid together to remind you of masonry and the knot of muscle on each cheek back where the jawbone hinges on.†   (source)
  • The masonry of the doorway was constructed with deep slots in it, in which heavy beams ran to and fro— heavy enough to withstand a battering ram.†   (source)
  • When structures began to rise not in tier on ponderous tier of masonry, but as arrows of steel shooting upward without weight or limit, Henry Cameron was among the first to understand this new miracle and to give it form.†   (source)
  • On the highest ground, he saw the solid masonry of the Square, blocked cleanly out in light and shadow, and a crawling toy that was a car, and men no bigger than sparrows.†   (source)
  • …peregrines, ravens and chuffs made circles over them in the air— the peat smoke followed them as if anxious to make one last curl in the tips of their nostrils—the ogham stones and sou-terrains and promontory forts exhibited their prehistoric masonry in a blaze of sunlight—the sea-trout and salmon put their gleaming heads out of the water—the glens, mountains and heather-shoulders of the most beautiful country in the world joined the general chorus—and the soul of the Gaelic world said…†   (source)
  • In the open space at the centre of the square were two circular platforms of masonry and trampled clay–the roofs, it was evident, of underground chambers; for in the centre of each platform was an open hatchway, with a ladder emerging from the lower darkness.†   (source)
  • Rising against the pale blue sky, it still looked like a drawing, unfinished, the planes of masonry like spreads of watercolor filled in, the naked scaffolding like pencil lines; a huge drawing on a pale blue sheet of paper.†   (source)
  • The houses were plain field stone—like the rocks jutting from the green hillsides—and of glass, great sheets of glass used as if the sun were invited to complete the structures, sunlight becoming part of the masonry.†   (source)
  • He looked up, and perceived two life-size portraits on panels built into the masonry.†   (source)
  • Even today, one high degree of Masonry bears the title of 'Grand Duke of Jerusalem.'†   (source)
  • Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.†   (source)
  • The Egyptian character of the masonry weighed upon me with its gloom.†   (source)
  • When I came to build my chimney I studied masonry.†   (source)
  • Master Claude, all that masonry costeth me dear.†   (source)
  • Well, it rained mortar and masonry the rest of the week.†   (source)
  • It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry—very smooth, slimy, and cold.†   (source)
  • The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the odious edifice was hollow.†   (source)
  • Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones.†   (source)
  • It blundered against a block of granite, staggered aside, and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath another pile of ruined masonry.†   (source)
  • All of the work for the building, such as brickmaking, brick-masonry, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc., would be done by the students.†   (source)
  • He then cleaned up the premises, locked the door, put the key in a place she would know if she came back, and returned to his masonry at Alfredston.†   (source)
  • So close on the heels of this as to seem instantaneous came a thud behind me, a clash of glass, a crash and rattle of falling masonry all about us, and the plaster of the ceiling came down upon us, smashing into a multitude of fragments upon our heads.†   (source)
  • At that time the out-patients' department at St. Luke's consisted of three rooms, leading into one another, and a large, dark waiting-room with massive pil lars of masonry and long benches.†   (source)
  • Then with his lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built firmly into the massive masonry.†   (source)
  • I descended, minding carefully where I went for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry.†   (source)
  • But how, without money, intimates, a more familiar understanding of the medical or if not that exactly, then the sub rosa world of sexual free-masonry which some at times—the bell-hops of the Green-Davidson, for instance, seemed to understand.†   (source)
  • The outer shell, the masonry, seemed rather to enclose the future so that it was an electric-like shock, a definite nervous experience, perverted as a breakfast of oatmeal and hashish, to cross that threshold, if it could be so called, into the long hall of blue steel, silver-gilt, and the myriad facets of many oddly bevelled mirrors.†   (source)
  • Tom stared in glad wonder at the vast pile of masonry, the wide-spreading wings, the frowning bastions and turrets, the huge stone gateway, with its gilded bars and its magnificent array of colossal granite lions, and other the signs and symbols of English royalty.†   (source)
  • What should have been the inner end stood open on the upper floors, and showed against the sky with steps and stairs of uncompleted masonry.†   (source)
  • At one spot the light grew solid as a brick wall, and like a piece of yellow Persian masonry, patterned in blue, daubed coarsely upon the sky the leaves of the chestnuts; at another, it cut them off from the sky towards which they stretched out their curling, golden fingers.†   (source)
  • The prisoners entered it through a massive archway of masonry, and were placed in file, standing, with their backs against the wall.†   (source)
  • …clustered on some enormous breastplate; but beyond which could be distinguished, dearer than all such treasures, a fleeting smile from the sun, which could be seen and felt as well here, in the blue and gentle flood in which it washed the masonry, as on the pavement of the Square or the straw of the market-place; and even on our first Sundays, when we came down before Easter, it would console me for the blackness and bareness of the earth outside by making burst into blossom, as in…†   (source)
  • 'Well, one very hot morning—my fourth, I think—as I was seeking shelter from the heat and glare in a colossal ruin near the great house where I slept and fed, there happened this strange thing: Clambering among these heaps of masonry, I found a narrow gallery, whose end and side windows were blocked by fallen masses of stone.†   (source)
  • Jude, who stood near the inquirer, explained it, and finding that the people all round him were listening with interest, went on to describe the carving of the frieze (which he had studied years before), and to criticize some details of masonry in other college fronts about the city.†   (source)
  • Some time later he went to a church-builder in the same place, and under the architect's direction became handy at restoring the dilapidated masonries of several village churches round about.†   (source)
  • The speaker was a man named Jack Stagg, with whom Jude had formerly worked in repairing the college masonries; Tinker Taylor was seen to be standing near.†   (source)
  • Passing out into the streets on this errand he found that the colleges had treacherously changed their sympathetic countenances: some were pompous; some had put on the look of family vaults above ground; something barbaric loomed in the masonries of all.†   (source)
  • The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion.†   (source)
  • The cloisters, reached by three or four masonry steps, made a haven of refuge around this turbulent sea.†   (source)
  • He hurried away through the thicket, and came to a stream flowing with the volume of a river between banks of masonry, broken at intervals by gated sluiceways.†   (source)
  • This is one of your genuine monuments, though made by a very different power than such as belongs to your chiseling masonry! and after all, the cunningest scout of the whole Dahcotah nation might pass his life in searching for the spot where it fell, and be no wiser when his eyes grew dim, than when they were first opened.†   (source)
  • The masonry of the top was clamped with iron at each joint; since it had been no uncommon thing for desperate men to wrench the coping off and throw it down the river, in reckless defiance of the magistrates.†   (source)
  • No portion of the masonry had fallen; and there appeared to be a wild inconsistency between its still perfect adaptation of parts, and the crumbling condition of the individual stones.†   (source)
  • The sides of the pool were of masonry, to prevent the water from washing away the bank; but the force of the stream in winter was sometimes such as to undermine the retaining wall and precipitate it into the hole.†   (source)
  • This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry.†   (source)
  • I had been looking at the Ghost's Walk lying in a deep shade of masonry afar off and picturing to myself the female shape that was said to haunt it when I became aware of a figure approaching through the wood.†   (source)
  • I did but refresh myself after the fatigue of the action, with the unbeliever, with one humming cup of sack, and was proceeding to lead forth my captive, when, crash after crash, as with wild thunder-dint and levin-fire, down toppled the masonry of an outer tower, (marry beshrew their hands that built it not the firmer!†   (source)
  • This drear, accursed masonry, Where even the welcome daylight strains But duskly through the painted panes.†   (source)
  • A large stone had served as a wedge; flints and pebbles had been inserted around it, so as to conceal the orifice; this species of masonry had been covered with earth, and grass and weeds had grown there, moss had clung to the stones, myrtle-bushes had taken root, and the old rock seemed fixed to the earth.†   (source)
  • There was a broad strong ledge of stone to this grating where the bottom of it was let into the masonry, three or four feet above the ground.†   (source)
  • Caleb Garth had undertaken it, had failed during its progress, and before the interior fittings were begun had retired from the management of the business; and when referring to the Hospital he often said that however Bulstrode might ring if you tried him, he liked good solid carpentry and masonry, and had a notion both of drains and chimneys.†   (source)
  • She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.†   (source)
  • The police have laid bare the floors, the ceilings, and the masonry of the walls, in every direction.†   (source)
  • He did not think of doubting Freemasonry itself, but suspected that Russian Masonry had taken a wrong path and deviated from its original principles.†   (source)
  • 'This is the work of devils!' said the lama, recoiling from the hollow echoing darkness, the glimmer of rails between the masonry platforms, and the maze of girders above.†   (source)
  • So, clinging to the masonry at their right hand, they escaped the might of the rush, and little by little made headway until, at last, the square was reached.†   (source)
  • They mostly lie like the great knobbed blocks on a Gothic spire, forming solid courses of heavy masonry.†   (source)
  • In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend mutual aid.†   (source)
  • Do not ask of Hindoo, Egyptian, Romanesque masonry to reform their design, or to improve their statuary.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, others of the ship's company were tumultuously busy at the masonry of the try-works, from which the huge pots had been removed.†   (source)
  • There stood on that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now remains, a regular wall of masonry, which rises to the height of the third story between the adjoining buildings.†   (source)
  • I had thought of forcing the blade in some minute crevice of the masonry, so as to identify my point of departure.†   (source)
  • Removing the fire-board from the front of the try-works, the bare masonry of that side is exposed, penetrated by the two iron mouths of the furnaces, directly underneath the pots.†   (source)
  • It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, and time.†   (source)
  • Groping about the masonry just below the margin, I succeeded in dislodging a small fragment, and let it fall into the abyss.†   (source)
  • Having thus only this resource, masonry, in order to make its way to the light, flung itself upon it from all quarters.†   (source)
  • The foundation does not penetrate the deck, but the masonry is firmly secured to the surface by ponderous knees of iron bracing it on all sides, and screwing it down to the timbers.†   (source)
  • The general characteristics of popular masonry, on the contrary, are progress, originality, opulence, perpetual movement.†   (source)
  • Between 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and fifty metres annually, afterwards eight and even ten thousand metres of galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation.†   (source)
  • To the student of old Roman walls, the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin course of tiles always alternating with the stone in those wonderful relics of the antique, and which undoubtedly contribute so much to the great strength of the masonry.†   (source)
  • The angle which it formed with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty creatures called the passers-by.†   (source)
  • It amused itself with watching the pillory, a very simple sort of monument, composed of a cube of masonry about six feet high and hollow in the interior.†   (source)
  • When one entered from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, tolerably vast cages, separated by narrow passages, built of masonry to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron bars.†   (source)
  • At length, after having passed a final wicket, so loaded with locks that a quarter of an hour was required to open it, they entered a vast and lofty vaulted hall, in the centre of which they could distinguish by the light of the torches, a huge cubic mass of masonry, iron, and wood.†   (source)
  • For, let us insist upon this point, masonry must not be thought to be powerful only in erecting the temple and in expressing the myth and sacerdotal symbolism; in inscribing in hieroglyphs upon its pages of stone the mysterious tables of the law.†   (source)
  • Instead of the ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as a petits materiaux—small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing.†   (source)
  • Thus, to sum up what we have hitherto said, in a fashion which is necessarily incomplete and mutilated, the human race has two books, two registers, two testaments: masonry and printing; the Bible of stone and the Bible of paper.†   (source)
  • …under the armpits, taking care that it should not hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began to raise himself in the angle of the wall and the gable with as much solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his feet and elbows.†   (source)
  • I, no more than yourself, have seen the Chaldean masonry works constructed according to the sacred form of the Sikra, nor the temple of Solomon, which is destroyed, nor the stone doors of the sepulchre of the kings of Israel, which are broken.†   (source)
  • These two vaults, especially the less ancient, that of 1740, were more cracked and decrepit than the masonry of the belt sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of Menilmontant was elevated to the dignity of the Grand Sewer of Paris, an advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first valet de chambre to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed into Lebel.†   (source)
  • Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone, thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals; on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity,…†   (source)
  • He also occupied himself with annotating the fine work of Baudry-leRouge, Bishop of Noyon and Tournay, De Cupa Petrarum, which had given him a violent passion for architecture, an inclination which had replaced in his heart his passion for hermeticism, of which it was, moreover, only a natural corollary, since there is an intimate relation between hermeticism and masonry.†   (source)
  • …ruins a new hierarchic universe, the keystone to whose vault is the priest—one first hears a dull echo from that chaos, and then, little by little, one sees, arising from beneath the breath of Christianity, from beneath the hand of the barbarians, from the fragments of the dead Greek and Roman architectures, that mysterious Romanesque architecture, sister of the theocratic masonry of Egypt and of India, inalterable emblem of pure catholicism, unchangeable hieroglyph of the papal unity.†   (source)
  • Not to consider here anything except the Christian architecture of Europe, that younger sister of the great masonries of the Orient, it appears to the eyes as an immense formation divided into three well-defined zones, which are superposed, the one upon the other: the Romanesque zone*, the Gothic zone, the zone of the Renaissance, which we would gladly call the Greco-Roman zone.†   (source)
  • Climb upon the wall of Uruk; walk along it, I say; regard the foundation terrace and examine the masonry: is it not burnt brick and good ?†   (source)
  • I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame.†   (source)
  • Shattered glass and toppling masonry.†   (source)
  • Time's livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.†   (source)
  • I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.†   (source)
  • I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock, Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, Till honour be bought up, and no sword worn But one to dance with!†   (source)
  • Besides agriculture, which is so common to them all, every man has some peculiar trade to which he applies himself; such as the manufacture of wool or flax, masonry, smith's work, or carpenter's work; for there is no sort of trade that is in great esteem among them.†   (source)
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