Stone walling

Stein-korper, m. stony body, (Bot.) stone cell or cell cluster- -kraut, n. stonecrop (Sedum), also various other plants, -lager, n. jeweled bearing, -malz, n. glassy or vitreous malt, -mark, n. (Min.) lithomarge. -mauer, /, stone wall brick wall, -mehl, n. stone powder, -meissel, m. stone chisel, -metz, m. stonemason, -mortel, hard mortar concrete (Portland) cement badigeon, -nuss, /. ivory nut- -obst, n, stone fruit, -til, n, petroleum. 

Yes, I say, gazing up at the tower. Here, if anywhere, Anthony should be the echo of the slam of a door, the clank and stench of a bucket, a wisp of candle smoke, the shadow of a bent head cast on a stone wall as he writes. 

Doria s new surveillance regime soon revealed that Balsamo was both cunning and dangerous. Within ten days of the prisoner s transfer to the dark pit of the Pozzetto, Marini discovered several hiding places hollowed out of its solid stone walls. In one was found a delicate eggshell brimming with some mysterious golden-colored liquid. On 30 October Doria reported... 

Warm and dry Shrews, mice, toads, spiders, and even pupating butterflies and moths will be attracted to the crevices and gaps in sunny stone walls (below) and stony banks. 

Walls In gardens account for the use of many tons of quarried materials—a finite resource—so recycled materials should be used wherever possible. Stone walls should ideally only be built where their strength and durability are actually needed. Substantial walls can also be built from reclaimed heavy-duty timbers, and they do not require large quantities of quarried foundation materials. 

Walls can be a wildlife habitat in the garden. The dense evergreen growth and protection of an ivy-covered wall will shelter nesting or roosting birds and many insects. Unmortared stone walls are an ideal habitat for small mammals, reptiles, and scree plants. 

I write these words at the end of my Mediterranean quest that I described in the Preface. Fm at the topmost point of the medieval village of Eze in France, overlooking the French Riviera. The scent of jasmine fills the air, and the carmine colors of bougainvillea flood my eyes. I touch the remains of the stone walls around me that date back to the Bronze Age. 

Plont. An unusual explosion demolished a mixing house while two building wings remained in tact. Construction consisted of stone walls (lm thick) and a light roof. 

The potassium nitrate used in gunpowder was originally obtained from natural mineral deposits of niter. Small quantities formed as efflorescence deposits on damp stone walls were... 

Soda (nitrum) is also briefly described. Saltpeter, its origin and production from earth in which it has rested many years, and from exudations from stone walls of wine cellars and dark places is described much as by Biringuc-cio, from whose work it appears to have been somewhat condensed. Then follows the manufacture of alum, vitriol, sulphur, bitumen and finally of glass of which he gives a clear and interesting description concluding ... 

Between 1980 and 1990, j mm of the thickness of the external stone walls of St. Paul s Cathedral in London was dissolved by acidic rainfall. A comer of the building facing a power station dissolved at 10 times the rate of the rest of the building until the station was closed. The power station and other industries that burn coal emit S02, which is a majoi source of acid rain (described in Box 15-1). Loss of heavy industry and laws limiting emissions decreased atmospheric S02 from as high as 100 ppb in the 1970s to 10 ppb in 2000. Correspondingly, only mm of St. Paul s external stone disappeared between 1990 and 2000. 2... 

In addition to cave walls, stone walls of shrines and animal skins served as supports for paintings in ancient times. An artist applied water-suspended pigment on a surface of freshly spread plaster to make a fresco painting. The paint and the plaster fused. The fresco painting survived as long as the plaster remained intact. 

Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. Richard Lovelace (1618-1658), To Althea, From Prison... 

Because these molecules form bubbles on their own, because the association of molecules is indiscriminate, and because a particular individual molecule is not necessary to form a membrane, it is difficult to infer intelligent design from cell membranes. Like the stones in a stone wall, each of the components is easily replaced by a different component. Like the mold on my refrigerator, design is not detectable. 

I moved wei from side to side on the hard wooden pew as Scarsdale s insidbus baritone echoed off the stone walls. What had supposed set out to be a prayer servbe had predbtably become an excuse for the revereixl to inflbt his own brand of piety on a captive audience. 

I got If) aid went to the low stone wall that bordered the garden The last of the light had gone ix)w, aid the fieds were lost in blackness. The feintest breath of breeze came offthe lake, carrying the desolate cry ofanowl... 

I d onV been there a coupb oftimes before, for an after-hours drink after the Lamb had shut, arb as I parked outsbe the heavy wooden gpte cbsing off the high stone wall, I thought it sab a lot for the depth of our fiieibship that I d never visited the place before in daylight. 

Locate a barrier such at a stone wall or large tree which you can stand behind in case the pistol ruptures when fired. 

Environmental reservoirs for the Aspergillus species (s. tab. 26.2) include damp cellars and old stone walls, soil in flowerpots (thus possibly in hospital rooms ) and mouldy food. The aflatoxins of the mould Aspergillus flavus (e. g. in mouldy nuts) are deemed to have a high carcinogenic potential. 

The Spanish-style villa. . . was a rambling white stucco house with scarlet trim, surrounded by gray stone walls. Down below was a sloping lawn ringed by flowers. Next to the upper terrace was the swimming pool, lake blue, and the lawn fell away downslope to a lower green terraced lawn. The villa had been built by Mexican Moslems and remodeled by Mexican Viennese. It was colorful, open, and lush. 

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