Blockhouses were constructed by the British to secure supply routes from Boer raids during the war.

Blockhouses were placed on two corners for lookouts, and six cabins were attached to the inside walls.

Blockhouses may be made of masonry where available, but were commonly made from very heavy timbers, sometimes even logs arranged in the manner of a log cabin.

Blockhouses were normally entered via a sturdy, barred door at ground level.

Blockhouses, which served as defensive fortresses, were erected by the British in 1900 and are still standing in the twenty first century.

Blockhouses were built at each of the four corners.

: 12-14: North, East, and West Blockhouses: Stone towers built by the first Americans garrisoning Fort Mackinac standing like restless sentinels, watching over the three main palisades of Fort Mackinac.

Blockhouses and Sangars have become a feature of the 2006 conflict in Afghanistan, being used by the British coalition forces, amongst others, as strong points to control the contested Southern provinces.

Built entirely of wood except for the magazine, the fort measured 343 ft on each side and included Blockhouses at its northwest and southeast corners.

“ Blockhouses in Canada, 1749-1841: a Comparative Report and Catalogue .” Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Canadian Historic Site, 1980.

Blockhouses covered in earth concealed four or five machine gun emplacements and could hold 20-30 soldiers.

if they refused to go, to arrest them if possible, or if this was impossible, to fire upon them ... Patrol each of the roads leading to Blockhouses 6 and 7 for 100 yards every half hour.

“ Blockhouses in Canada, 1749-1841: a Comparative Report and Catalogue .” Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Canadian Historic Site, 1980.

“ Blockhouses in Canada, 1749-1841: a Comparative Report and Catalogue .” Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, Canadian Historic Site, 1980.

Like as if it were built of books ''.

However, just as all the buildings have not fallen and flowed back to their original mud, so the values which wanted them and saw that they were built have not all disappeared.

In a matter of months the War Department built thirty-two camps, each one accommodating fifty thousand men -- sixteen were under canvas in the South and sixteen with frame structures in the North.

They were better trained, better looking, better built, better disciplined and something else -- they were better dancers.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

As new homes were built they were connected so that all residences south of School Street are served by it.

Department stores were built on dry goods, especially ladies' fashions, and in this area, in the long run, the suburban branches will be hard put to compete against downtown.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

On the upper Mississippi the Illinois post was to be established near Kaskaskia, and dependent posts were to be built on the Missouri, `` where there are mines in abundance ''.

With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

These theories were built on a coherent building of argument from assumed or accepted beginnings.

Some amateur astronomers use home-made radio telescopes, while others use radio telescopes that were originally built for astronomy research but have since been made available for use by amateurs.

For example, the monumental structures at Göbekli Tepe were built by hunters and gatherers a thousand years before the development of agriculture.

Large hotels were built during the Belle Époque ; cog-railways, built early in the 20th century, brought tourists to ever higher elevations, with the Jungfraubahn terminating at the Jungfraujoch after going through a tunnel in Eiger.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

The houses were built of unmortared stone, which means that no cement or mortar was used to hold the stones together.

Ceremonial structures known as kivas were built in proportion to the number of rooms in a pueblo.

In each case, the object, the color, even the percussive sounds of the electronic score were designed to become part of the theatrical being of the performer.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

Gross had received Marshall courteously and they were discussing the case.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

But if she were just having a normal case of pre-nuptial jitters such a question might frighten her out of a really good marriage.

unwarranted they were in any case for, as he stood facing the fille de chambre, his ears were assailed by new sounds from the interior of the shower room.

Held: On the record in this case, the administrative procedures prescribed by the Act were fully complied with ; ;

For if such were the case, either the plane of the two lines would meet **zg in more than K points or, alternatively, the order of the image regulus of the pencil determined by the two lines would be too high.

A recent case in point is Mitchell Canneries v. United States, in which a claim against the Government was transferred first from a corporation to a partnership, whose partners were former stockholders, and then to another corporation formed by the partners.

The Court, nevertheless, relied on the Seaboard case and also mentioned that the shareholders of the two corporations were the same.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

One year the Department collected a file of case histories to document its argument that men in the field were paying the government's entertainment bills out of personal income.

You may think we didn't need Nancy and Jean, but you always get what you can when you can, and we had no guarantee that a fingerprint record on them couldn't be useful before we were through with this case.

The fact that secrets of the Dreadnought, and thereby of the American undersea fleet, were involved in the spy case had been hinted at earlier.

( The penalties handed out in the electrical case, which included jail sentences, were unprecedented in anti-trust prosecutions, perhaps because the conspirators had displayed unusual ineptness in their pricing activities.

The sail was still unfurled, though there were a good many holes in it, as Langer had predicted would be the case by now.

When they were forced to, Central Worlds shrugged its shoulders, arranged a tour of the Laboratory Schools and set the tour off to a big start by showing the members case histories, complete with photographs.

Lower case letters were therefore not interleaved with upper case.