No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

We came down off the wall as if he had toppled all of us, and we crouched behind it.

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.

My Cousin Simmons carried a musket, but he had loaded it with bird shot, and as the officer came opposite him, he rose up behind the wall and fired.

Alec's glance went to a chart of guest names and room numbers hanging on the wall behind the clerk.

A middle aged woman opened a window on the third floor of her house which was behind the wall, she threw out a few belongings and then jumped ; ;

Ezra is written to fit a schematic pattern in which the God of Israel inspires a king of Persia to commission a leader from the Jewish community to carry out a mission ; three successive leaders carry out three such missions, the first rebuilding the Temple, the second purifying the Jewish community, and the third sealing of the holy city itself behind a wall.

The near wall will not be displayed at all, as it is behind our view point.

Since the shorts were produced during the rise of film noir in cinema, the change was usually represented as a stylized sequence: Clark Kent's silhouette is clearly seen behind a closed door's pebble glass window ( or a shadow thrown across a wall ) as he strips to his Superman costume.

In the first episode the player navigates a tunnel in the wall of a prison cell, hidden behind a poster, just like in The Shawshank Redemption.

The score is still updated by hand today from behind the wall ( except the National League scores which need to be changed out on the field ).

Coulomb observed that, at failure, a distinct slip plane would form behind a sliding retaining wall and he suggested that the maximum shear stress on the slip plane, for design purposes, was the sum of the soil cohesion,, and friction, where is the normal stress on the slip plane and is the friction angle of the soil.

This creates soil pressure behind the wall, which can be analysed based on the angle of internal friction ( φ ) and the cohesive strength ( c ) of the material and the amount of allowable movement of the wall.

Groundwater behind the wall that is not dissipated by a drainage system causes an additional horizontal hydraulic pressure on the wall.

Gravity walls depend on the size and weight of the wall mass to resist pressures from behind.

These walls cantilever loads ( like a beam ) to a large, structural footing ; converting horizontal pressures from behind the wall to vertical pressures on the ground below.

With his friends jostling and pushing on both sides and behind, and his enemies forming a solid wall in front of him, the hoplite had little opportunity for feats of technique and weapon skill, but great need for commitment and mental toughness.

It must be securely bolted either to the floor or the wall behind.

A temperature sensitive crayon can be used at the point to which it is to be annealed, which is just behind the shoulder for bottlenecked cartridges, or at the bottom of the bullet seating depth for straight wall cartridges.

On the wall behind the podium hung a picture of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, and two flags, later to become the official flag of Israel.

The word is a medieval and later one, derived from the classical Latin post murum, behind the wall.

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.

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

He piled everything neatly in a corner of the cellar and turned to stare at the blank stone wall.

How in the world did one attach a pegboard to a stone wall??

How did one attach anything to a stone wall, for that matter??

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.

From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade-handled magnifying glass.

Thus a man who is butting a stone wall at the office may become unusually aggressive in bed -- the one place he can still be champion.

The city had vanished, except fragments of wall and of a great stone cistern on the acropolis.

The wall consisted of two parapets built with large stone blocks and cemented with an earth mortar called emplekton ( Greek: ἔμπλεκτον ).

At the " Wailing Wall " in the Old City of Jerusalem, " the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail the downfall of the holy city, kissing the stone wall and watering it with their tears.

A frequent characteristic is that the walls are galleried ( the outer and inner wall skins are separate but tied together with linking stone slabs, with an open space between ).

Conservation has six specialist areas: ceramics & glass ; metals ; organic material ( including textiles ); stone, wall paintings and mosaics ; Eastern pictorial art and Western pictorial art.

An inscription on a stone built into the wall of a summer house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages.

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.

There is a placard on the wall commemorating the location, as well as a small stone monument against the wall on the sidewalk.

The Giza pyramid complex, which includes among other structures the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, is surrounded by a cyclopean stone wall, the Wall of the Crow, and outside of which Mark Lehner has discovered a worker's town, otherwise known as " The Lost City ", dated by pottery styles, seal impressions, and stratigraphy to have been constructed and occupied sometime during the reigns of Khafre ( 2520 – 2494 BC ) and Menkaure ( 2490 – 2472 BC ).

Hector smashes open a gate with a large stone, clears the gate and calls on the Trojans to scale the wall, which they do, and

The most striking aspect of this early town was a massive stone wall over 3. 6 metres high, and 1. 8 metres wide at the base.

Inside this wall was a tower over 3. 6 metres high, contained an internal staircase with 22 stone steps.

Only earthworks and fragments of masonry remain of what was an extensive 13th-century barbican structure including a stone wall and an external gatehouse guarding the main approach to the castle.