The jade head was placed at the pelvis of the body, with the face of the jade boulder facing the skull.

The path lay up a steep boulder strewn track one one side of which was a sheer drop and the other by a perpendicular cliff face, leading to the main gateway, known as the Koket-Bir, which consisted of a thick timber doors set in a stone archway.

It is advised to use safety goggles whenever rocks are struck, whether breaking open small stones or chipping a piece off a large boulder because small chips of stone could potentially cause damage to the eyes or face.

Grinding is splatting a large boulder or wall whilst remaining in the downstream current, and subsequently " grinding " along the face of the obstruction.

The boulder landed face up displaying the name of the town as we know it today.

While Toro sharpens his horns, Bugs interrupts him by placing an elastic band around the horns and using it as a giant slingshot to smack him in the face with a boulder.

The chapter ends with Irma " tearing and beating at the gritty face on the boulder with her bare hands ".

A recurring gag throughout the series is his tendency to get squashed by something, usually a boulder.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

This approach was not favoured by most of the effects crew, who " couldn't believe " some of the things Tsuburaya asked them to do, such as Kong and Godzilla volleying a giant boulder back and forth.

The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.

The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.

He kills Piggy with a boulder that was no longer aimed to miss, and becomes the executioner and torturer of Jack's tribe.

The final chapter compares the absurdity of man's life with the situation of Sisyphus, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again.

Experience showed that till ( boulder clay ), rather than just sand or clay, was the best primary material for a structure like the Afsluitdijk.

In Greek mythology Sisyphus (; Greek:, Sísyphos ) was a king punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever.

As a punishment from Queen Persephone for his trickery, King Sisyphus was made to roll a huge boulder up a steep hill.

Sisyphus was sentenced to an eternity of frustration in Tartarus where he rolled a boulder up a hill and it would roll back down when he got close to the top.

The site of Fort Clark is now marked by a large boulder and plaque, while the Fort Matson site was later the location for a church, name corrupted to Fort Madison ( not to be confused with the Iowa city ).

Near the spot where Gustavus Adolphus fell, a granite boulder was placed in position on the day after the battle.

The name was later changed to the Round Rock Hotel, because of a large, round boulder located in the northeast corner of the front yard.

The boulder was a feature of the summit of Rollstone Hill ; it was exploded and reassembled on the green in 1929 and 1930.

A boulder was placed in memory of John Dunbar.

When a road from Hoboken to Fort Lee was built through the site in 1858, an inscription on a boulder where a mortally wounded Hamilton was thought to have rested — one of the many pieces of graffiti left by visitors — was all that remained.

In 1870, railroad tracks were built directly through the site, and the boulder was hauled to the top of the Palisades, where it remains today, located just off the Boulevard East.

In 1894, an iron fence was built around the boulder, supplemented by a bust of Hamilton and a plaque.

The plaque was stolen by vandals in the 1980s, and an abbreviated version of the text was inscribed on the indentation left in the boulder, which remained until the 1990s, when a granite pedestal was added in front of the boulder, and the bust was moved to the top of the pedestal.

Samples obtained from this boulder delivered the final blow to the pre-mission volcanic hypothesis, proving it incorrect.

About 1 hour and 22 minutes after arriving, the astronauts departed for station thirteen, a large boulder field about from North Ray.

There is a mixture of boulder clay and other glacial deposits in the eroded valleys, and raised beach and marine deposits elsewhere, especially to the south and west which result in a machair landscape in places, inland from the sandy bays, such as Stravanan.

His monument is a boulder selected from the moraine of the glacier of the Aar near the site of the old Hôtel des Neuchâtelois, not far from the spot where his hut once stood ; and the pine-trees that shelter his grave were sent from his old home in Switzerland.

Some clear topaz crystals from Brazilian pegmatites can reach boulder size and weigh hundreds of pounds.

Turning against Ralph, the tribe takes Sam and Eric captive while Roger drops a boulder from his vantage point above, killing Piggy and shattering the conch.

Set into the pavement of Fore Street is the ' Brutus Stone ', a small granite boulder onto which, according to local legend, Brutus first stepped from his ship.

There is a wealth of good quality climbs in the county, from granite rocks in the south to quartzite and dolerite in the north ; from long mountain routes in the Poisoned Glen to boulder challenges of excellent quality in the west and in the Inishowen Peninsula.

In Tartarus, Sisyphus would be forced to roll a large boulder up a mountainside which when he almost reached the crest, rolled away from Sisyphus and rolled back down repeatedly.

This represented the punishment of Sisyphus claiming that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus, causing the god to make the boulder roll away from Sisyphus, binding Sisyphus to an eternity of frustration.

Sediment size is measured on a log base 2 scale, called the " Phi " scale, which classifies particles by size from " colloid " to " boulder ".

The word boulder is short for boulder stone, from Middle English bulderston or Swedish bullersten.

:' But Jason called to mind the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares Enyalius ; four stalwart youths could not have raised it from the ground even a little.

* The UK technical grades ( see UK grading system above ), ranging from 4a to 7b, used in the United Kingdom for traditional climbs and occasionally used to rate boulder problems as well.

The park offers and array of landscapes from the rugged coast to boulder strewn hilltops.

On the parade ground a native boulder bears a bronze plaque in memory of Eagle Scout twin brothers from Troop 2, Towanda, Pennsylvania, Air Force Lieutenants John R. and William G. Winter.

The people from Lichtenvoorde are known as the keienslöppers ( boulder haulers ).

The name is derived from a huge boulder at the marketplace with a stone lion on top.