The cemetery also offers a view of the changing style of death monuments in Ireland over the last 200 years: from the austere, simple, high stone erections of the period up until the 1860s, to the elaborate Celtic crosses of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s to 1960s, to the plain Italian marble of the late twentieth century.

This broken stone is returned to Westminster Abbey, while the real stone is hidden in plain sight as a conveniently placed seat on the Royal Highlands Golf Course in Scotland.

For at home in our country ( Amasia ), there is a long hill in a plain, which abounds with pebbles of a porus stone, resembling lentils.

The plain stone plaque was written by Wren's eldest son and heir, Christopher Wren, Jr.

According to an Irish dinsenchas (" place-lore ") poem in the 12th century Book of Leinster, Crom Cruach's cult image, consisting of a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone figures, stood on Magh Slécht (" the plain of prostration ") in County Cavan, and was propitiated with first-born sacrifice in exchange for good yields of milk and grain.

The two are linked by Wallingford Bridge, a 900 ft long mediaeval stone bridge across the river and the adjacent flood plain.

The stone is conveyed from the quarry about three-eights of a mile on an inclined plain railway, the descending cars drawing up the ascending ones.

His stone, in the southwest section of the churchyard on a west facing wall, is plain and says nothing of his work.

The inhabitants had of necessity made their settlement on the plain on the north-west of Tristan ; here a number of substantial stone cottages and a church were built.

Today, the remains of Alfonso VI are buried in the Benedictine Monastery at Sahagún, at the foot of the temple, in a stone chest covered with smooth, modern marble and in a tomb near equally plain, lie the remains of several of the king's wives, including those of Constance.

While this may or may not have been the case with older wooden or plain stone temples, it was definitely not the case with the more luxurious marble temples, where colour was used sparingly to accentuate architectural highlights.

The earliest form of the name is Magh nAla, meaning " plain of the stone ".

All of these buildings are in a functional style and the main facing material is polished dark stone, complemented by white tiles, exposed concrete and plain glazing.

A plain stone staircase at the Altınyol ( Golden Way ) of the Harem is called Staircase of Cevri ( Jevri ) Kalfa, since the events apparently happened around there and are associated with her.

They are depicted in their own drawings in the tomb of Djehutihotep as moving massive stone blocks on sledges with the runners lubricated with a liquid which would constitute a plain bearing.

A Home Stone is a rock, which can be plain and simple or even a large precious stone, such as a topaz.

In the late nineteenth century, the village of Al-Manshiyya was described as being situated on a plain, surrounded by arable land, with houses built of stone and mud.

In 1881, the Survey of Western Palestine described the place as a village of " mud and stone houses, containing about 200 ( Guerin says 400 ) Moslems, situated on the plain, surrounded by a few clumps of olives and figs and arable land ; two or three cisterns are in the village, the aqueduct near brings good water.

The ford was replaced in the 16th century with a six-arch stone bridge, and a quarter kilometre embankment crossing the flood plain.

The designs reflect the simple modernist style he was using in France for the war cemeteries ; double-height ticket halls are clad in plain Portland stone framing a glazed screen, each adapted to suit the street corner sites of most of the stations.

It is built with pink stone, flanked by two towers which are plain in the lower half but highly decorated in the upper bell portions.

The first evidence for human activity in the area of Eretria are pottery shards and stone artefacts from the late Neolithic period ( 3500-3000 BC ) found on the acropolis as well as in the plain.

The stone floors are waxed, while the hearth is left plain, giving the impression of dry rocks protruding from a stream.

Stairways on the slopes of the hill also link the monument to the low-lying plain.

Surviving drawings show that several versions of the monument were submitted for consideration: a plain obelisk, a column garnished with tongues of fire, and the fluted Doric column that was eventually chosen.

starts plain but part way up is an notable monument to Richard Watts, a

The monument, which was constructed of white marble from Cockeysville, rises 178 feet and consists of three main elements: a low, rectangular base containing a museum ; a plain, unfluted column ; and, atop the column, a standing figure of Washington.

You had grown up at a time when the most distinguishing mark of a lady was the noli me tangere writ plain across her face.

He then sold her minerals to cure her kidney ailment, a can of sage `` to make her look like a girl again '', and an application of plain mud to take her wrinkles away.

For two hours they drove her from one strong point to another along the side of the Reef, trying to maneuver her onto the plain where they could get a good throw.

Sometimes they struck me as horribly over-arranged -- which was the way I felt about her `` Come Rain or Come Shine '' -- and sometimes they were just plain magnificent, like her shatteringly beautiful `` Beautiful Weather ''.

He really hadn't meant to, he assured her, but it was plain to her that the importance of these small things was lost on Mr. Robards.

The Lady Da, naked in the dusty plain, waved a hospitable hand and showed that there was a place for him to sit beside her.

It tells the story of a plain governess ( Jane ) who, after early life difficulties, falls in love with her employer, Mr Rochester.

When she met him, she held a plain egg in her hand and exclaimed, " Christ is risen!

Only the priests were present there, and they had the task of " translating " her utterances in plain speech.

This brings him into contact with Ina's daughter, Kate, who attracts him despite her plain appearance and simple lifestyle.

As Joss Marsh, in her study of blasphemy in the nineteenth century, points out, " at these trials plain English was reconfigured as itself ' abusive ' and ' outrageous.

Austen turns the conventions of eighteenth-century novels on their head, by making her heroine a plain and undistinguished girl from a middle-class family, allowing the heroine to fall in love with the hero before he has a serious thought of her, and exposing the heroine's romantic fears and curiosities as groundless.

The results confirm that he is out of her league, leaving her wistful, but Vincent makes it plain that he does not care about her genetics.

" The Church of Rome is wicked and dangerous ", she wrote to her sister, " their ceremonies – most of them – plain downright idolatry.

Isabella was said to resemble her father, and not her mother, queen regnant of Navarre, a plump, plain woman.