Freestone Sentence Examples

Dover has a fine city hall of red brick and freestone; a public library containing (1907) 34,000 volumes; the Wentworth hospital; the Wentworth home for the aged; a children's and an orphans' home.

The environs of Creil (Oise) and Chteau-Landon (Seine-et-Marne) are noted for their freestone (pierre de taille), which is also abundant at Euville and Lrouville in Meuse; the production of plaster is particularly important in the environs of Paris, of kaolin of fine quality at Yrieix (1-Jaute-Vienne), of hydraulic lime in Ardche (Le Teil), of lime phosphates in the department of Somme, of marble in the departments of HauteGaronne (St Beat), Hautes-Pyrnes (Campan, Sarrancolin), Isre and Pas-de-Calais, and of cement in Pas-de-Calais (vicinity of Boulogne) and Isre (Grenoble).

There are collieries and freestone quarries in the neighbourhood.

The principal industries include manufactures of linen and sailcloth, bleaching, rope-making, brewing, distilling, paper-making, in addition to nurseries and freestone quarries.

Fine white freestone abounds in the immediate vicinity (as at Craigleith, from the vast quarry of which, now passing into disuse, the stone for much of the New Town was obtained) and furnishes excellent building material; while the hard trap rock, with which the stratified sandstones of the Coal formation have been extensively broken up and overlaid, supplies good materials for paving and road-making.

Among the most dangerous of the last class (the pneumokonioses) is perhaps that in which the dust particles take the form of finely divided freestone, as in stone-dressing and the dry-polishing on the grindstone of steel.

The manufactures include paraffin, paper, glass, chemicals, flour and whisky, and freestone is quarried.

Buildings, &c. - Brick, blue limestone, and a greyish buff freestone are the most common building materials, and the city has various buildings of much architectural merit.

The working of slate is very important, especially in the neighbourhood of Fumay, and quarries producing freestone, lime-stone and other minerals are found in several places.

The Parliament House, standing on the crown of the eastern hill, is a massive square brick building with a pillared freestone facade approached by a broad flight of steps.

Engineering and iron works (as at Bowling and Low Moor) are extensive; and the freestone of the neighbourhood is largely quarried, and in Bradford itself its use is general for building.

The industries include salmon fishing, deep-sea fishing, the making of rope and twine and the freestone quarries of the neighbourhood.

There are in the chancel two freestone effigies, perhaps of the r4th century, besides three sedilia, and a piscina under arches.

The Mosel is spanned by a Gothic freestone bridge of 14 arches, erected in 1344, and also by a railway bridge.

The Essex Institute (1848) is housed in a brick building (1851) with freestone trimmings and in old Plummer Hall (1857); its museum contains some old furniture and a collection of portraits; it has an excellent library and publishes quarterly (1859 sqq.) Historical' Collections.

It is rich, however, in clays, while in the island of Bornholm there are quarries of freestone and marble.

In the first half of the 19th century other exports were lime, freestone, and grain; West Indian, American and Baltic produce, Irish flax and Welsh pig iron were imported, and shipbuilding was a growing industry.

The town is an important port on the Rhone, and its commerce, the chief articles of which are wine, and freestone from quarries in the vicinity, is largely water-borne.

The Executive Mansion, more commonly called the White House, the official residence of the president, is a two-storey building of Virginia freestone, painted white since 1814 to hide the marks of fire - only the walls were left standing after the capture of the city by the British in that year.

The mineral products of Eure include freestone, marl, lime and brick-clay.

The neighbourhood abounds in freestone and coal.

In January 1361 building work at Windsor was vigorously resumed, and again the sheriffs were ordered to contribute their quotas of 40 freestone masons and 40 cementarii to Wykeham's charge.

Besides freestone, exported for building, limestone, blue marble, and porcelain-clay are worked.

The most prominent public buildings are the Houses of Parliament, to which an excellent library is attached; the town hall, a beautiful building of brown and white Tasmanian freestone in Italian style; the museum and national art gallery, and the general post office (1904) with its lofty clock-tower.

Gypsum, limestone, freestone and marble are quarried; there are also mines of copper, lead, iron, zinc and rock salt.

Freestone is quarried around Ancaster, and good oolite building stone is quarried near Lincoln and other places.

The town has some agricultural trade, and in the neighbourhood are quarries for freestone, hearthstone and white sand.

This early work is of square, dressed, freestone ashlars.

Swansea ' keeper Roger Freestone was caught out by an awkward bounce but managed to claim the loose ball before Howe could take advantage.

It is built of red brick, relieved by freestone dressings.

The style is that generally known as the Elizabethan, and the material, dressed red freestone from the local quarry.

Dwarf foundation walls topped by chamfered freestone, supporting a timber superstructure; six glazed windows on either side.

However, the window to the east is in pale buff freestone, the others in red.

The gray freestone may be stone looted from Roman ruins.

The red freestone found here is similar to that obtained at St. Bees.

The 18th-century buildings of Bath are mostly built of Bath Stone, a white freestone.

Above is a rectangular window of two lights with hollow chamfers all in buff-yellow freestone.

Meanwhile, goalkeeper Roger Freestone, who was reported to be nursing an ankle ligament injury, has been named in the Swans squad.

There is no record of when it began, but in the 1850s it became the largest freestone quarry in Peeblesshire.

Two-centred doorway with differentially worn, molded dressings in both pink and gray freestone, and a hoodmould with hollowed soffit; all original.

In the last minute Freestone went upfield for Howard's free-kick.

His shot was deflected to Mark Tinkler, who hit a crisp right-foot volley into the far corner past a helpless Roger Freestone.

The principal substrata are limestone and freestone of excellent quality; and along the banks of the river, ironstone is found in abundance.

In the last minute Freestone went upfield for Howard 's free-kick.

George IV - Originated in New York in the early 1800s, this freestone variety has a rich flavor.

Considerable deposits of freestone in the neighbourhood attracted attention during the later 19th century.

In the neighbourhood there are freestone quarries.