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.

* 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid.

* 1434 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.

The highlight for them all was a triumphal return to Dunfermline, where Carnegie's mother laid the foundation stone of a Carnegie Library for which he donated the money.

* 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone on 28 September 1853, during the annual autumn visit.

It is roofed by slabs of stone laid at a slightly steeper angle than the floor of the gallery, so that each stone fits into a slot cut in the top of the gallery like the teeth of a ratchet.

The Mughals then began to utilize Bamboo rocket ( mainly used for signalling ) and Sappers were special units that laid gunpowder under heavy stone fortifications.

In 1897 the foundation stone was laid of a large concrete structure, but there was insufficient money to complete the work and the " Harbour arm " remains uncompleted.

A one-metre gauge line was laid down following the route of the former Jersey Railway from Saint Helier to La Corbière, with a branch line connecting the stone quarry at Ronez in Saint John.

* 1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.

On 11 March 1922 the foundation stone of Aurobindo Bhavan, which is currently the main administrative centre of the university, was laid.

The next day, a ceremony was held in Holtenau where Wilhelm II named it the Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal ( after Kaiser Wilhelm I ), and laid the final stone.

Konrad Kurzbold laid the foundation stone for Saint George ’ s Monastery Church, where he was also buried.

The foundation stone was laid by Prince George of Wales and Prince Albert Victor on 4 July and the stand opened in December that year.

Ten years later, the Grey Smith Stand and the open concrete stand next to it were replaced by the Western Stand ; the Duke of Edinburgh laid a foundation stone for the Western Stand on 3 March 1967, and it was completed in 1968.

Both rubble and ashlar masonry can be laid in coursed rows of even height through the careful selection or cutting of stones, but a great deal of stone masonry is uncoursed.

* 1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin is laid.

The foundation stone was laid in 1840 ; the Lords Chamber was completed in 1847, and the Commons Chamber in 1852 ( at which point Barry received a knighthood ).

The elaborate procedure was recorded by a 15th-century witness in an oft-quoted description: " he will lie upon his back, with his head covered and his feet, and one arm will be drawn to one quarter of the house with a cord, and the other arm to another quarter, and in the same manner it will be done with his legs ; and let there be laid upon his body iron and stone, as much as he can bear, or more ..."

A pastel frottage created by rubbing pastel on paper laid over stone

In 1506 he laid the foundation stone of the new St. Peter's Basilica.