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.

The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the dirt and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees.

Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.

He was not stone.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.

He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.

At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.

She was also stone deaf in her right ear.

It was silent in the stone alley.

The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.

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

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.

The suffering of ten unknown victims of the camp was recorded on the stone.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

The death of André-Marie Ampère occurred decades before his new science was canonized as the foundation stone for the modern science of electromagnetism.

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

As a result, Sumer and Akkad had a surplus of agricultural products, but was short of almost everything else, particularly metal ores, timber and building stone, all of which had to be imported.

In the second account given by the Thebans, when Alcmene died, she was turned from human form to a stone.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites Ælfric's 10th-century glossary, in which henge-cliff is given the meaning " precipice ", or stone, thus the stanenges or Stanheng " not far from Salisbury " recorded by 11th-century writers are " supported stones ".

The hilltop location of the wooden forts would have given the defending slingers the advantage of range over the attackers and multiple concentric ramparts, each higher than the other, would allow a large number of men to create a hailstorm of stone.

This was formerly the universal custom and still persists among the less sophisticated Veddas who sometimes in addition place a large stone upon the chest for which no reason could be given, this is observed at Sitala Wanniya ( off Polle-bedda close to Maha Oya ), where the body is still covered with branches and left where the death occurred.

Cadets were given 5 kg stone maces were taught to maneuver without breaking movement and when the cadet would become well versed at combat manevers it would be switched with a heavier weight to go upto 35 to 45 kg's to a point that the combatant could swing a heavy mace the whole day.

It is also the name of the stone given to Cronus in Zeus ' place in Greek mythology.

At the beginning of the 3rd century Winchester was given protective stone walls.

Chac-Mool is the name given to a type of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican stone statue.

However, Hampton Court, unlike Versailles, is given an extra dimension by the contrast between the pink brick and the pale Portland stone quoins, frames and banding.

The month before, the bronze equestrian statue of Charles, on a pedestal of carved Portland stone was given Grade I listed protection.

The veins of opal displaying the play of color are often quite thin, and this has given rise to unusual methods of preparing the stone as a gem.

The names of the main four wards or divisions of Malé Island are said to have been given by the aboriginal Giraavaru fishermen: Maafannu from " maa " ( big ) and " fannu " ( a place where a village path meets the sea ), Henveiru from " en-beyru " ( out where fishermen got their bait ), Galolhu from " galu-olhu " ( stone groove ) and, Macchangolhi from " mathi-angolhi " ( windward path-fork ).

In botany, blossom is a term given to the flowers of stone fruit trees ( genus Prunus ) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring.

Perseus is said by some to have given the head, which retained the power of turning into stone all who looked upon it, to Athena.

" Gladiator sacrifice " is the name given to the form of sacrifice in which an especially courageous war captive was given mock weapons, tied to a large circular stone and forced to fight against a fully armed Aztec warrior.

(" Liberty ") In a given position, a liberty of a stone is an empty intersection adjacent to that stone or adjacent to a stone which is connected to that stone.

In a three-story stone building with twelve rooms, boys and girls were given instruction in the manual arts, as well as in reading, writing, arithmetic, and religious subjects.

It has also given its name to the village: " Aa-Stein ", or " stone building on the river Aa ".

A century later this castle was given to William Marshal by Richard I. Marshall, who would become one of the most powerful men in 12th-Century Britain, rebuilt Pembroke in stone creating most of the structure that remains today.