From the Rajput Kingdom of Sarsatti, he visited Hansi in India, describing it as " among the most beautiful cities, the best constructed and the most populated ; it is surrounded with a strong wall, and its founder is said to be one of the great infidel kings, called Tara ".

The strength of a masonry wall is not entirely dependent on the bond between the building material and the mortar ; the friction between the interlocking blocks of masonry is often strong enough to provide a great deal of strength on its own.

Skeptics such as Milbourne Christopher have found that some cases of poltergeist activity can be attributed to unusual air currents, such as a 1957 case on Cape Cod where downdrafts from an uncovered chimney became strong enough to blow a mirror off of a wall and knock things off shelves.

The historic city formed an oval, surrounded by a strong wall, high, dating from the 12th century CE, and was flanked with towers, while on a rock, stood a castle.

A strong wall, furnished at intervals with watchtowers and other defenses, surrounded the abbey precincts.

However, if a stone is placed at a 4-4 point and the opponent invades, the first player can build a surrounding wall as the second ( invader ) is forming a live group, thus exerting strong influence on a large area.

A strong wall was built around the small town in 286 AD.

When the framework was removed, the new wall was very strong with a rough surface of bricks or stones.

Hydrates have a strong tendency to agglomerate and to adhere to the pipe wall and thereby plug the pipeline.

Like Lugavalium, which lay within sight, Petriana housed a cavalry regiment, Ala Petriana, which at 1000 strong was the sole regiment of this size on the wall.

His voice was so strong that, when he called loudly, the most solid wall would shake and the wildest animal would fall dead.

At Yahweh's command Moses holds his staff out over the water, and throughout the night a strong east wind divides the sea, and the Israelites pass through with a wall of water on either side.

The chapels next to the Angel Choir were built in the Perpendicular style, with an emphasis on strong vertical lines, which survive today in the window tracery and wall panelling.

In the Gallic Wars, the Gauls practised a scorched-earth policy, but the inhabitants of Avaricum begged not to have their city burned, and it was spared due to its good defences provided by the surrounding marshes and a strong southern wall.

Nasir-i Khusrou visited Tiberias in 1047, and describes a city with a " strong wall " which begins at the border of the lake and goes all around the town except on the water-side.

He would prove to be a worthy successor at the plate, and a far superior defensive player with a strong arm, expert in playing off the Green Monster, Fenway Park's left-field wall.

They typically report events, such as structures struck by lightning, rotating wall clouds, funnel clouds -- or conditions that exceed specific thresholds, such as extremely strong winds, significant hail or very heavy rainfall.

In addition, Standish recommended the construction of strong gates and platforms for shooting over the wall.

In his vision at Amon Hen, Frodo Baggins perceived the immense tower as " wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant ... Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron ".

Nonetheless, she is jovial and has a strong sense of humor ; she frequently says things that cause her to break into hysterical, cackling laughter and can cackle at herself when she makes a blunder ( i. e. when the broom she rides goes backwards and crashes into a wall: " Oh, we women drivers ...

The long, narrow medullary cavity is enclosed in a strong wall of compact tissue which is thickest along the interosseous border and dorsal surface.

The Firmicutes ( Latin: firmus, strong, and cutis, skin, referring to the cell wall ) are a phylum of bacteria, most of which have Gram-positive cell wall structure.

With the introduction of siege artillery, a new style of fortification emerged in the 16th century using low walls and projecting strong points called bastions, which was known as the trace italienne.

The Great Gate was very strong ; constructed of iron and steel guarded by stone towers and bastions.

Instead, with strong city walls and small Roman garrisons, these cities held out for centuries, as some of the last bastions of the Roman Empire in Italy.

Archways, gun emplacement rooms, supplies lodges, strong bastions with gun safe boxes, safe boxes of small arms, secret passage to the sea, barracks, jails, warehouses and two block-houses at the last defense line: prove the perfection of the defense plan, which along with the natural fortification made the fortress unconquered.

In 1722, Grand Master Marc ' Antonio Zondadari declared Bormla a city and in view of its strong bastions named it Città Cospicua.

The slim turrets were replaced by strong bastions.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.

Strong men with strong opinions, frank to the point of being refreshingly indiscreet, the Founding Seven were essentially congenial minds, and their agreements with each other were more consequential than their differences.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

He looked disapprovingly at an ash tray piled high with cigarette stubs, shook his head, and moved his hand back and forth in a strong negative gesture.

If Woodruff could not furnish a strong explanation, the governor insisted that he lower his prices in accord with the scale printed in The Advocate.

And the Chinese, as the Albanian incident shows, have strong suspicions that Khrushchev is anxious to secure a `` shameful '' peace with the West.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

He seems strong enough inside the party to cope with any internal opposition ; ;

I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.

This involves the application of a strong magnetic field to the radical vapor, which shifts the low-frequency spectra to a conveniently high microwave range, where they may be measured with optimum sensitivity.

I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.

The single-barrel Stevens 940Y ( under $35 ) is made with a side lever rather than a top-tang lever because many youngsters aren't strong enough to operate a top tang to open a gun -- and the side lever does indeed open very easily.

It wants to interest builders and oil companies in the idea of including its facility in their new home projects, by financing and installing the storage, piping and meters, and leasing these for 15 years, with renewal options, to a strong oil company.

In the period since the end of World War 2, -- a period coinciding with merchandising demands for the colorful, the unusual, and the original in signs and displays -- plastics have come on so strong that today they are the acknowledged leaders in the field.

Af appeared to be well suited for the study of these matters, since it is a normal paramagnet, with three unpaired electrons on the chromium, its crystal structure is very simple, and the unknown position of the hydrogen in the strong Af bond provides structural interest.

Overwhelmed with the care of five young children and concerned about persistent economic difficulties due to her husband's marginal income, her defense of denial was excessively strong.

A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

As the more conservative group with strong backing from wealthy businessmen, the U.M.C.I.A. was generally favored against the more progressive, labor-based U.N.F.P..

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.