Le Prevost very justly discredits any remains of Roman masonry at Rouen; but he will not be displeased to see that the only existing relics of the castle or town walls, have been copied by the pencil of a late travelling friend.
It is the boldest and finest piece of masonry in the whole building.
The two main entrances to the royal palace are of white masonry very elaborately adorned.
I have been shown several terraces the masonry of which was undoubtedly Roman, and coins bearing the effigies of the earlier Cæsars have been often found in the brick work.
Thus, with its periods of hopefulness and its periods of despairing, life for our hero rolled on after the placid fashion of bucolic Brooklyn, adrowse among its mortary dells and its masonry dingles, until there came the year 1915 A.
Now it was a flattened huddle of broken masonry and shattered woodwork, from which arose constantly a sour stench of rotting things.
The well house, picturesque though it was, gave way to a substantial masonry curbing equipped with a stout wire cover.
However, it was defective in that the struts applied considerable horizontal thrust to the abutments, requiring heavier masonry than would otherwise have been necessary.
From the very beginning of colonization, capital was scarce, a condition that prevailed until well into the 19th century and which prohibited the use of masonry because of the extremely high costs of labor and transport.
The tradition of masonry bridge construction never attained the great strength in this country which it held in Europe, despite a number of notable exceptions.
In addition to the economic considerations which prompted the company to revert to timber for the major bridges, there were several situations in which masonry construction was unsuitable for practical reasons.
Its sea face had been reduced to a heap of crumbled masonry before we reached the scene of action, and I did not afterward see a shot fired from it, nor a single soldier in or about it.
I doubt whether the castle contains anything that would be called a bastion by a military engineer; but I cannot think of any other word to describe the cubical masses of masonry that are joined to the main work only on one side.
I found that the masonry of the fortress had suffered even less from the guns of Admiral Sampson's fleet than I had supposed.
The stream still swept them along, they felt the masonrycome to an end, and bushes and shrubs lined the bank.
The masonry is by no means good, and before nightfall, unless aid comes, there will be nought for us but death or surrender.
It had, apparently, been much deeper at a former period, only the two upper courses of masonry being new visible.
The spring comes out beneath the mound on the east, and has on the west a wall of smallmasonry in hard cement.
The masonry is thus quite equal to the average size of the temple stones in Jerusalem.
One bridge of massive masonry of large stones is one hundred and twenty feet long and thirty-five feet high, with pointed arches.
The ruins which first strike the eye on the hillside are evidently those of a comparatively modern village, with here and there fragments of masonry which may date back to Crusading times.
The old Roman masonry of which they were composed was still in a very good state of preservation.
I have visited this celebrated source, with its massive masonry and crumbling cistern, in the centre of which there is now a flourishing fig-tree.
The theatre is a semicircular building of masonry in an immense artificial mound, surrounded by a trench near the sea.
Part of the old masonry which enclosed it still remains.
The walls are about two feet thick, built of masonry or of loose blocks of basalt.
I had been struck by the peculiar style of masonryemployed in the harbor of Wick, and by its rock-like strength.
It appears in a recess about twenty feet lower than the surface, and under an arched vault of masonry tolerably well executed.
Eventually we found our road blocked by a barricade of fallen masonry in front of a village which was as inhospitable as the Cities of the Plain.
For instance, the aqueducts over Oneida and Onondaga Creeks had been made of solid masonry instead of wood as stipulated in the estimate.
Here replanting has proved efficacious, and barriers of masonry have been erected, that have served the purpose intended.
Thousand and one thoughts, desires and fears rushed through Francesco's brain, as he rode down into the picturesque valley, which encompassed the feudal masonry where he had spent the night.
The roof was of solid stone masonry and rose in a wide semicircular arch to the height of about twelve feet, measured from the centre of the ceiling to the ground floor.
The rider dismounted, tethered his foam-flecked steed to a tree and stumbled up to where the Duke of Spoleto and Francesco stood, their gaze riveted upon the ghostly masonry of Astura.
On a mound in the centre stood crags of ruined masonry smothered in ivy, a broken squint in the wall looking like a rent in a cloud, through which the sunlight slanted.
Below and above the amphitheatre mysterious masonrybroke the climbing slope.
Of the masonry of these ruins generally, Squier says: "The stone is faced with a precision that no skill can excel, its right angles turned with an accuracy that the most careful geometer could not surpass.
The strength of the masonry is sometimes assisted by having the projecting parts of a stone fitting into corresponding hollows or recesses in the stone above or below it.
To obtain the site for their capital the Incas had to carry out a great engineering work, by confining two mountain torrents between walls of substantial masonry so solid as to serve even to modern times.
The masonryadjoining it is evidently of the same period.
Some considerable evidences are visible of earlier work at the east end of the south aisle beyond the mass of masonry which marks the royal vault.
After the sand and lime had been removed from this chamber to a depth of nearly 30 feet it was found that the walls became continuous with the solid foundation of masonry upon which the mound stood.
Below the alluvial layer the mound was composed of large blocks of limestone, held together by mortar, giving it the consistency of masonry and rendering digging in it very difficult.
Towering above a fertile and well-cultivated plain frown and smile the brother and sister mountains of Slieve-dhu and Slieve-bawn, the solid masonry of whose massive and perpendicular precipices was built by no human architect.
The clans are governed by a sort of free-masonry system.
The medicine men or women, who are initiated into the secrets of their wonderful medicines, (which secret is as sacred with them as free-masonry is to its members) give the feast which they call the medicine feast.
No living figure stirred among the piles of masonry which were tombstones above many dead.
Ypres was a city of ruin, with a red fire in its heart where the Cloth Hall and cathedral smoldered below their broken arches and high ribs of masonry that had been their buttresses and towers.
Many men were buried alive in Ypres, under masses ofmasonry when they had been sleeping in cellars, and were wakened by the avalanche above them.
This remark was also received by a gust of subdued laughter, silenced for a moment by a roar and upheaval of masonry somewhere by the ruins of the Cloth Hall.
The keystones of arches were blown out, and masses of masonry were piled into the nave and aisles.
There was no movement among all those rubbish heaps of fallen masonry and twisted iron.
At present he is much interested in the huge dams of masonry and iron gates that have been thrown across the Nile at Assiut and Assouan.
The ordinary 150 pound mortal edging his way through the corridors and under the vast shadows of these overwhelming uplifts of masonry feels about as large and as important as a gnat.
The cupola is one of the very few in Europe which have no wooden building-out to a metal outer shell: like the Pantheon and Florence cathedral and the smaller dome at Constantinople, it is of solid masonrywithin and without.
Those who care for reason and for intelligent growth of design out of building will care for it, while admitting its lack of charm, for it is of thoroughgoing masonry throughout, and what it appears outwardly to be that it really is.
In masonry buildings the frame and sash can be given their proper values, the area of wood being treated broadly, without regard to the individual members.
One is apt to make a fussy effect, if, for instance, one insists on always shading the soffit of the masonry opening, especially if the scale of the drawing be small.
The old masonry is capitally expressed by the short irregular line.
Near this is the crypt—one of the most eccentric bits of antique masonry which we have seen—and opposite is the court in which was discovered the effigy of the Virgin Mary; and onwards yawns the tower dungeon deep and dark.
There are Roman bits of masonry still in the walls.
They saw in it the relic of the demigods of a remote past; stone masonryseemed supernatural, and they called it "the giants' ancient work.
