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.

The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

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.

According to Don Rosa's timelines the Clan is known since 122 AD, when an, as of yet, unnamed member of the clan sold stone to the construction crew of Hadrian's wall.

Vikings hewed soapstone directly from the stone face, shaped it into cooking-pots, and sold these at home and abroad.

Tavernier's book, the Six Voyages ( French: Le Six Voyages de ...), contains sketches of several large diamonds that he sold to Louis XIV in possibly 1668 or 1669 ; while the blue diamond is shown among these, Tavernier mentions the mines at " Gani " Kollur as a source of colored diamonds, but made no direct mention of the stone.

Weil later sold the stone to a New York-based or London-based ( accounts differ ) diamond dealer Simon Frankel, who took it to New York.

In 1908, Frankel sold the diamond for $ 400, 000 to a Salomon or Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector, reportedly in behalf of Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey ; however, on June 24, 1909, the stone was included in an auction of Habib's assets to settle his own debts, and the auction catalog explicitly stated that the Hope Diamond was one of only two gems in the collection which had never been owned by the Sultan.

" Habib reportedly sold the stone in Paris in 1909 for $ 80, 000.

The mill stones frequently rub against each other resulting in small stone particles chipping off and getting into flour, but they are removed before the flour is sold.

Books were sold on this bridge and stone platforms were built nearby for guns – " raskats ".

Rumours included one that the stone had been sold illegally in 1932 through a Munich jeweller and had reappeared in Holland.

Building stone and slate roofs were sold off to the highest bidder.

Most of the religious buildings of the city were demolished in that period: in 1797, the old cathedral, which had been dubbed the " wonder of the low countries ", was sold to a merchant who exploited it as a stone quarry.

In 1877, a new court house, built of stone, was purchased for $ 1, 800, and the old one was sold to the school district to use for a schoolhouse, for $ 500.

In late 2006, a stone church was taken down, for unknown reasons, that was built circa 1830 and served the community until 1980 when the church's contents were sold off.

The original Coebourne Log Mill was replaced in 1750 by a stone structure which was sold to Jonathan Dutton ( Dutton Mill Road is a major road in the area ) in 1792.

And be it further enacted, that so many of the lots in the said town as are not sold by the said John Kellar are hereby vested in the said trustees, and they, or a majority of them, shall within six months after the passing of this act, sell the lots at public auction, having previously advertised the time and place of such sale at the court house of said county, on three successive court days, and convey the same to the purchaser in fee, subject to the conditions of building a house on each, sixteen feet square, with a brick or stone chimney, to be finished fit for habitation within three years from the date of sale, and pay the money arising from such sale to the said John Kellar, or his legal representatives.

While the Liberty Bell did not go to the Exposition, a great many Exposition visitors came to visit it, and its image was ubiquitous at the Exposition grounds — myriad souvenirs were sold bearing its image or shape, and state pavilions contained replicas of the bell made of substances ranging from stone to tobacco.

As a result of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, Evesham Abbey was dismantled in 1540 and sold as building stone, leaving little but the Lichfield Bell Tower.

Most of the surrounding area ( including the property with the stone cottage Lane had built for them ) had been sold off, but they still kept some farm animals, and tended their flower beds and vegetable gardens.

When he was murdered, he was on his way to Amsterdam to have the stone cut ; it would then have been sold to replenish the plundered trust fund before the beneficiary inherited.

The stone was sold off and much of it is in use elsewhere in the town, including the large farm house which now stands in the park.

In 1979 Steve sold his record shop " rolling stone records and tapes " located in flagstaff az.

Books were sold on this bridge and stone platforms were built nearby for guns-" raskats ".

Moorgate was demolished with all the other London city wall gates in 1761 / 2, and the resulting stone was sold for £ 166 to the City of London Corporation to support the starlings of the newly widened centre arch of the London Bridge.

In 2010 it was suggested that a 2 kilogram stone known as the Gem of Tanzania owned by the defunct company Wrekin Construction and fraudulently valued at £ 11 million was actually a lump of Anyolite worth about £ 100, although it was eventually sold for £ 8000.

The canons disbanded, and the land was granted to the Marquess of Northampton, who later sold it to the Earl of Huntingdon, who built a house in the grounds of the abbey, using the Abbey's stone.