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repaired and marble
The black slate and white marble tiles were repaired, cleaned and replaced where necessary, whilst most of the age damage was to be found in the woodwork, which was suffering greatly from poor ventilation and having been laid directly on to earth, resulting in worm and wet rot.
Original decorative stencils were repaired or recreated ; gold leaf was replaced or restored, and marble surfaces were cleaned.
Headstones of granite, marble and other kinds of stone are usually created, installed, and repaired by monumental masons.
The CSA of Augusta repaired the square castellated base, protected the corners and in the face, looking towards the canal inserted a large tablet of Italian marble, bearing this inscription: " This Obelisk Chimney-sole remnant of the extensive Powder Works here erected under the auspices of the Confederate Government-is by the Confederate Survivors ' Association of Augusta, with the consent of the City Council, conserved in Honor of a fallen Nation, and inscribed to the memory of those who died in the Southern Armies during the War Between the States ".
The walls and floors were repaired and a sacred heart altar with marble rails was erected.

repaired and towers
Fuller repaired one of the towers, added new gates to the site, and removed a cottage which had been built within the castle in the 18th century ; he is thought to have bought the castle to prevent the Webster family from dismantling it and reusing its materials.
A Roman inscription says that the wall and square towers were repaired at the expense of P Aelius Hagetor, the priest of Athena in the 2nd century AD.
A new computer control system was also put in place ( reusing the Ferranti Argus 104 computer from the Mark II ); fatigue cracks in the cones connecting the bowl to the towers were repaired and the central antenna was lengthened and strengthened.
During the First Gulf War 1990-1991, the towers were damaged and during 2012 they are being repaired.

repaired and garrisoned
Castles in England, such as Chepstow and York Castle, were repaired and garrisoned by the king.
The fort was repaired to full military use where it was garrisoned with men from the 34th Regiment of Foot ( made famous for their routing the French 34th regiment during the Napoleonic wars ).
The castle was not badly damaged, the fire being mainly limited to the timber structures within the walls and Lincoln recommended to King Edward that the castle be repaired and garrisoned with English troops.

repaired and fort
* January 7 Fire destroys " all the houses in the fort " at Jamestown ; the fort is repaired in March.
That fort was repaired in about 100 AD under the command of the Roman prefect Flavius Cerialis.
In about 370 AD the fort was roughly repaired, perhaps by irregular soldiers.
The river, which flows between the castle-hill and the powerfully armed fort of San Cristobal, is crossed by a magnificent granite bridge, originally built in 1460, repaired in 1597 and rebuilt in 1833.
The principal island was Ternate at the chain's northern end ( 0 ° 47 ' N, only in diameter ) on whose southwest coast the Portuguese built a stone fort () during 1522 23, which could only be repaired, not modified, according to the Treaty of Saragossa.
Although the fort was repaired in advance of an expected attack on Brooklyn by the British during the War of 1812, it thereafter slowly deteriorated.
The fort itself was heavily defended and newly repaired and prepared for a siege, while the besiegers numbers were insufficient and their artillery of an inadequate calibre.
For a short time the hill fort was gateless, when the east gateway was repaired the passage from the entrance was lengthened.
It probably predates the Bahamani sultans even though they may have repaired the fort and increased its fortifications.
The gates and walls were repaired, and second floors were added to several rooms to increase the housing capacity of the fort.
Wall that was breached and repaired with moat around the fort
The fort was repaired by daybreak of 5 September.
The fort was repaired and rebuilt several times, its northern defences being particularly prone to collapse.
Though these damages have been largely repaired, the fort continues to be under threat from erosion.
This fort was repaired and put in a state of defence.
In addition to providing a place to rest, a blacksmith / farrier resided at the fort who shod horses and oxen, and also repaired wagon wheels.

repaired and with
And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;
The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.
First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.
Dives, carefully repaired huts, and nicely painted and ornamented cottages were jumbled together cheek by jowl with little distinction.
He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".
There he repaired the evils of the Albigensian war and made a first attempt at administrative centralization, thus preparing the way for union with the crown.
Reinforced with bulkheads and other internal structure, it is strong but heavy, easily repaired, and, if sealed properly, will not leak or corrode.
Scratches on the clear side can be repaired by refilling them with similar refractive plastic, or by careful polishing.
Molly Dobbs became pregnant, with the father being either Tyrone Dobbs or Kevin Webster ; Molly reconciled with Tyrone and nearly lost her life after a crash in a car which had not been properly repaired by Kevin.
( However, he started out as fully robotic, and was repaired with human parts, rather than the more usual reverse ).
Capellas was able to restore some of the luster lost in the latter part of the Pfeiffer era and he repaired the relationship with Microsoft which had deteriorated under his predecessor's tenure, but the company still struggled against lower-cost competitors such as Dell who took over the top spot of PC manufacturer from Compaq in 2001.
Single-strand breaks are repaired by DNA ligase using the complementary strand of the double helix as a template ,, with DNA ligase creating the final phosphodiester bond to fully repair the DNA.
After a series of operations during a four-month hospitalisation, his doctors determined that the damage could not be fully repaired and Bowie was left with faulty depth perception and a permanently dilated pupil.
He found a good port, landed, repaired and restocked his vessels, then stayed for a time, keeping friendly relations with the natives.
The latest vehicles, like the Patria AMV, have been designed with an emphasis on modularity that improves their ability to be repaired in the field.
Many wheeled IFVs can extract themselves from a battlefield with specialised run-flat tires when not operating in difficult terrain, while an IFV with damaged tracks would require its tracks repaired in the field or an armoured recovery vehicle to tow it out.
Although problems with basic infrastructure and government services persist, and Lebanon is now highly indebted, much of the civil war damage has been repaired throughout the country, and many foreign investors and tourists have returned.
In the 1950s existing facilities were repaired, and, with Soviet assistance, considerable progress was made toward establishing a long-distance telephone wire network connecting Beijing to provincial-level capitals.
When the PDA is repaired or replaced, it can be " re-synced " with the computer, restoring the user's data.
The earliest versions, however, especially those models with the Bosch K-Jetronic ( CIS ) injection system, have few electronic components and therefore can be repaired more easily provided spare parts can be found.
He repaired or beautified numerous churches, which involved their decoration with icons and images of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and the saints.
In 833, Gregory completely rebuilt St Mark ’ s Basilica in Rome, adorning the walls with Byzantine-style mosaics, as well as a number of other churches which he either repaired or rebuilt.

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