His hand was large and square and heavily tanned.

At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.

It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.

As can be seen from these dosage isopleths, approximately 100 square miles was covered within the area sampled.

It was not always easy to develop theory and doctrine which would square the two conditions.

About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square.

Having achieved this end, he was able to buy 116,000 square miles in the valleys of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.

In place of the police headquarters was a new square filled with rubble.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

The great column from which the square takes its name was erected by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Whoever it was had meant to shut him up in here, had followed him and waited till the courthouse and square were deserted.

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.

Yet everywhere else sameness was stucco and wood in square blocks -- like fortresses perched against the slant of the hill, rising with the hill to the top where the church was and beyond that to the cemetery.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

The statue was placed in the square fronted by the cathedral.

These were differently sized in different countries, for instance, the historical French acre was 4, 221 square metres, whereas in Germany as many variants of " acre " existed as there were German states.

Historically, the size of farms and landed estates in the United Kingdom was usually expressed in acres ( or acres, roods, and perches ), even if the number of acres was so large that it might conveniently have been expressed in square miles.

The Falcons 78, 000 square foot headquarters and training facilities or located on a 50-acre site in Flowery Branch, Ga., the complex which was one of the first of its kind was completed in 1999.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

What had been the ambassador's suite was now jagged walls of blackened brick.

" This was borrowed into Arabic as al-tub ( الط ّ وب al " the " + tub " brick ") " brick ," which was assimilated into Old Spanish as adobe, still with the meaning " mud brick.

Ceramic, or fired brick was used as early as 4500 BC in early Indus Valley cities.

During the Renaissance and the Baroque, visible brick walls were unpopular and the brickwork was often covered with plaster.

It was only during the mid-18th century that visible brick walls regained some degree of popularity, as illustrated by the Dutch Quarter of Potsdam, for example.

This potential has not been fully developed because of the ease and speed in building with other materials ; in the late-20th century brick was confined to low-or medium-rise structures or as a thin decorative cladding over concrete-and-steel buildings or for internal non-load-bearing walls.

In Victorian London the bright red brick was chosen to make buildings visible in the heavy fog that caused transport problems.

The idea of signing the worker's name and birth date on the brick and the place where it was made was not new to the Ming era and had little or nothing to do with vanity.

Some have stated that the secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until 1756, when the British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate.

Angkor's neighbor state of Champa was also the home to numerous brick temples that are similar in style to those of Angkor.

In the end, the Cham replica was more impressive than the real brick tower of the Khmer, and the Cham won the contest.

Since its obtainment was considerably more expensive than that of brick, sandstone only gradually came into use, and at first was used for particular elements such as door frames.

The brick and granite work was enlarged, the watch towers were redesigned, and cannons were placed along its length.

It was replaced in 1988 by the 1541-II, which used an external power supply to provide cooler operation and allow the drive to have a smaller desktop footprint ( the power supply " brick " being placed elsewhere, typically on the floor ).

Nennius, a ninth-century historian, mentions a " Hot Lake " in the land of the Hwicce, which was along the Severn, and adds " It is surrounded by a wall, made of brick and stone, and men may go there to bathe at any time, and every man can have the kind of bath he likes.

The building was designed to distance the Irwin Union Bank from traditional banking architecture, which mostly echoed imposing, neoclassical style buildings of brick or stone.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

Carl Dill was neither a rancher nor a valley man.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

He was an honest man doing a hard job, and the implication that he was anything else was unbearable.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.