Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

Most of the victims received an unceremonious trip to the guillotine in an open wooden cart ( the tumbrel ).

Most sawists use cello or violin bows, using violin rosin, but some may use improvised home-made bows, such as a wooden dowel.

Most insulated buildings that utilize concrete block, brick, adobe, stone, veneers or some combination thereof feature interior insulation in the form of fiberglass batts between wooden wall studs or in the form of rigid insulation boards covered with plaster or drywall.

Most open-air museums are located in regions where wooden architecture prevail, as wooden structures may be translocated without substantial loss of authenticity.

Most rosaries used in the world today for praying are made of simple and inexpensive plastic or wooden beads connected by cords or strings. The major cost is labour for assembly.

Most duet systems are held by placing the hands through a leather strap, with the thumbs outside of the strap and the palms resting on wooden bars, though some Wheatstone models use the thumb strap of the English concertina.

Most wooden Tang sculptures have not survived, though representations of the Tang international style can still be seen in Nara, Japan.

Most were built of fired and mortared brick ; some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures.

Most would wield an iron sword, mostly augmented with a wooden shield.

Most modern jigsaw puzzles are made out of cardboard, since they are easier and cheaper to mass produce than the original wooden models.

Most screwpile lighthouses were made with iron piles, though a few were made with wooden piles covered with metal screw sleeves ( these sleeves were probably adopted because they were less expensive and easier to insert into the bottom, plus the sleeve protected the wood from marine-boring invertebrates ).

Most of them looked quite dismayed that nothing was going on … Well, finally Ray arrived … and he brought with him a large corrugated cardboard box of wooden spools.

Most woods are treated and do not wear terribly fast but with enough rain, wooden playgrounds can become extremely slippery and dangerous for children to be on.

Most of the 168 post holes held wooden posts, although Cunnington found evidence that a pair of standing stones may have been placed between the second and third post hole rings.

Most of the buildings at the time were wooden structures which allowed the fire to spread quickly from building to building.

Most of the city's Ottoman wooden buildings have been replaced by concrete apartment blocks, but some are being restored or replaced with attractive houses in the traditional style.

Most of the buildings were low wooden houses bordering the streets.

Most towers were originally crowned with wooden tents ; the extant brick tents with strips of colored tiles go back to the 1680s.

Most modern congas have a staved wooden or fiberglass shell, and a screw-tensioned drumhead.

Most of the larger sets also include a driveshaft ( an unfinished wooden rod without slotted ends, of an intermediate length between " green " and " violet ," normally turned with a small plastic crank.

Most Thai people own spirit houses, miniature wooden houses in which they believe household spirits live.

Most of the wooden statues are clad in warrior dresses, giving an impression that the entire row of wooden statues were created to remember an incidence of war that might have taken place during 1600-1700 AD ( no historic evidence of this war is found yet, but it can be linked to the Mogul / Bahamani Invasion ).

Most of the cases covered by Poirot's private detective agency take place before his retirement to grow marrows, at which time he solves The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Most motorways are covered by the closed toll collection system, where a driver receives a ticket at the entrance gates and pays at the exit gates according to the number of sections travelled.

Most of the census in 2007 was taken in August, while the Somali Region and the Afar Region were not covered.

Most of Oued Bouskoura's bed has been covered due to urbanization and only the part south of El-Jadida road can now be seen.

Most of the nation is covered with waist-deep mud, which the residents use to build houses.

Most land in Honduras is covered by mountains, giving rise to the country's nickname, " the Tibet of Central America.

Most are covered with thousands of square concrete features, called " warts " by the students, which would be perfectly suited to buildering except that, while some are set into the wall, others are simply glued on.

Most of the time, one side is left as bare wood while the other side may be covered in leather or a softer material such as piano felt.

Most mammals have light skin that is covered by fur, and biologists believe that early human ancestors started out this way also.

Most of the island is covered with a thin layer of glacial material.

Most of Mongolia is covered by discontinuous permafrost ( grading to continuous at high altitudes ), which makes construction, road building, and mining difficult.

Most of the islands used to be covered by tropical rainforests.

Most of Sumatra used to be covered by tropical rainforest, but economic development coupled with corruption and illegal logging has severely threatened its existence.

Most Zoras do not wear clothing, and they are generally covered in silver scales, which give them a pale blue sheen from a distance.

Most Hoysala temples have a plain covered entrance porch supported by lathe turned ( circular or bell-shaped ) pillars which were sometimes further carved with deep fluting and moulded with decorative motifs.

Most typically, the surface of the plate is covered in a hard, waxy ' ground ' that resists acid.

Most of the area is covered with sand-dunes ( barchans ); in the North-West large areas are covered with takirs ( clay coatings ); there are also some oases.

File: Sand-dune. JPG | Most of the area is covered with sand-dunes.

Most of the area is covered by Dinaric Alps mountain ranges running from north-west to south-east.

Most of Cumberland and Westmorland are missing because they were not conquered until some time after the survey, and County Durham is lacking as the Bishop of Durham ( William de St-Calais ) had the exclusive right to tax Durham ; parts of the north east of England were covered by the 1183 Boldon Book, which listed those areas liable to tax by the Bishop of Durham.

Most pickup, feed, and separation rollers have a rubber coating which eventually suffers wear and becomes covered with slippery paper dust.

Most commuting is undertaken by personal aircraft, allowing great distances to be covered in little time.

Most of the Cascades ' lower and middle elevations are covered in coniferous forest and temperate rainforest ; the higher altitudes have areas of alpine tundra and glaciers.