Mosaic Sentence Examples

The mosaic representing Christ surrounded by the four-and-twenty elders," which originally lined the cupola, had almost entirely perished by the 19th century, but was restored in 1882 from a copy made in the 17th century.

At Nennig is a fine Roman mosaic pavement.

The marble mosaic pavement (11th century) is very effective.

Lastly pre-Mosaic polytheism seems to be implied in the Mosaic prohibition Ex.

We therefore hold that the law of the seventh-day Sabbath goes back to the Mosaic age.

The Gothic portal is fine, and the church contains a mosaic pavement of 1213 with curious representations and some frescoes by Giotto, painted during a visit to Dante between 1317 and 1320.

This is due to the fact that it for the first time unfolded the true character of Yahweh, implicit in the old Mosaic religion and submerged in the subsequent centuries of Israel's life in Canaan, but now at length made clear and explicit to the mind of the 1 In Isa.

But, if the Saracen gave the lines of the building, the Greek gave the mosaic decorations of its walls.

Mosaic is the essential decoration of the church, and the architectural details are subordinated to the colour scheme.

You can create your own mosaic design or pattern.

She, too, had found love in huts where poor men dwell, and her miller, her bagpipers, her workers in mosaic are as faithful renderings in prose of peasant life and sentiment as Wordsworth's leechgatherer and wagoners and gleaners are in verse.

The interior is in the form of a basilica, the double aisles being borne by ancient columns, and contains ambones and a candelabrum of 1311, the former resting on columns supported by lions, and decorated with reliefs and coloured marble mosaic. The castle at the highest point of the town was erected in the 14th century.

In the principal streets are memorial stones with inscriptions in honour of Charles V., surmounted by an old crucifix with a mosaic cross.

Some early ambones are found in Ravenna, and in the south of Italy are many fine examples; the epistle ambo in the cathedral at Ravello (1130), which is perhaps the earliest, shows a Scandinavian influence in the design of its mosaic inlay, an influence which is found in Sicilian work and may be a Norman importation.

Here is a theatre of Roman date and some remains of town walls and other buildings, one with a fine mosaic excavated by the British school at Athens in 1896.

The exterior of the choir, with its four radiating chapels, its jutting cornices supported by modillions and columns with carved capitals, and its mosaic decoration of black and white stones, is the most interesting part of the exterior The rest of the church comprises a narthex surmounted by a tower, three naves and a transept, over which rises another tower.

The two ambones in the cathedral of Salerno, which are different in design, are magnificent in effect and are enriched with sculpture as well as with mosaic. In the gospel ambo in the cathedral of Ravello (1272), and also in that of the convent of the Trinita della Cava near Salerno, the spiral columns inlaid with mosaic stand on the backs of lions.

In the baths were found a number of works of art, now in the Vatican, notably the mosaic pavement of the Sala della Rotonda, and the celebrated head of Zeus and the head of Claudius in the same room.

The arguments of conservative writers involve concessions which, though often overlooked by their readers, are very detrimental to the position they endeavour to support, and the objections they bring against the theory of the introduction of new law-books (under a Josiah or an Ezra) apply with equal force to the promulgation of Mosaic teaching which had been admittedly ignored or forgotten.

Just as the Mosaic dispensation came to an end with the appearance of Christ, so the sacraments of the new dispensation have lost their meaning and efficacy since the incarnation of God as Holy Spirit in the Amalricans.

The Mosaic Institute contained an agrarian law, based upon an equal division of the soil amongst the adult males, a census of whom was taken just before their entrance into Canaan.

The original part of the magnificent mosaic pavement probably dates from the middle of the 12th century, if we may judge from the pavement at Murano, exactly similar in style, material and workmanship, which bears the date 1140.

The interior, a basilica with nave and two aisles, contains columns said to come from a temple of Minerva and a fine mosaic pavement of 1166, with interesting representations of the months, Old Testament subjects, &c. It has a crypt supported by forty-two marble columns.

The royal palace, designed by Friedrich von Gartner (1792-1847), is a tasteless structure; attached to it is a beautiful garden laid out by Queen Amalia, which contains a well-preserved mosaic floor of the Roman period.

Stannic sulphide, SnS 2, is obtained by heating a mixture of tin (or, better, tin amalgam), sulphur and sal-ammoniac in proper proportions in the beautiful form of aurum musivum (mosaic gold) - a solid consisting of golden yellow, metallic lustrous scales, and used chiefly as a yellow "bronze" for plaster-of-Paris statuettes, &c. The yellow precipitate of stannic sulphide obtained by adding sulphuretted hydrogen to a stannic solution readily dissolves in solutions of the alkaline sulphides to form thiostannates of the formula M 2 SnS 31 the free acid, H2SnS3, may be obtained as an almost black powder by drying the yellow precipitate formed when hydrochloric acid is added to a solution of a thiostannate.

The production of coloured glass for " mosaic " windows has become a separate branch of glass-making.

This is the tomb with recumbent effigy of the Cardinal Brago or De Braye (1282), with much beautiful sculpture and mosaic. It is signed Hoc oPVs Fecit Arnvlfvs.

Gsell, consists of a nave and two aisles, and still contains a mosaic. The Great Basilica served for centuries as a quarry, but it is still possible to make out the plan of the building, which was divided into seven aisles.

The first, on the 27th of June 1906, affirmed, with some significant but unworkable reservations, the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch; and the second (29th of May 1907) strenuously maintained the Apostolic Zebedean authorship of the fourth Gospel, and the strictly historical character of the events and speeches recorded therein.

The vestibule, in the Cosmatesque style, is supported by ten ancient columns resting upon recumbent lions, with a mosaic frieze upon them.

To deny the Linnaean, or later the Cuvierian, classes was very much like denying the Mosaic cosmogony.

We do not yet know whether such absolute blending is possible or not, or whether all apparent blending is only a more or less minutely subdivided " mosaic " of non-combinable characters of the parents, in fact whether the combinations due to heredity in reproduction are ever analogous to chemical compounds or are always comparable to particulate mixtures.

He confessed to having followed the practices of the Mosaic law, and this saved his life.

The so-called Campo Santo, close to the baptistery, contains a mosaic pavement with emblematic figures belonging probably to the 8th and 9th centuries, and running under the cathedral.

Probably nowhere can the actual historical progress from the primitive use of animal sacrifices to the later refinement of burning incense be more clearly traced than in the pages of the Old Testament, where no mention of the latter rite occurs before the period of the Mosaic legislation; but in the monuments of ancient Egypt the authentic traces of the use of incense that still exist carry us back to a much earlier date.

In the 8th century, when peace was made between the caliph Walid and the emperor Justinian II., the former stipulated for a quantity of mosaic for the decoration of the new mosque at Damascus, and in the 10th century the materials for the decoration of the niche of the kibla at Cordova were furnished by Romanus II.

Hansen (1813-1891), finished in 1858; the Minorite church, a Gothic edifice of the 14th century, containing an admirable mosaic of Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" by Raffaeli, executed in 1806-14 by order of Napoleon and placed here in 1846.

It is, as it were, the great temple of medieval science, whose floor and walls are inlaid with an enormous mosaic of skilfully arranged passages from Latin, Greek, Arabic, and even Hebrew authors.

A large mosaic with geometric designs was also recently discovered in the centre of the city.

There, also, is the refined and spirited figure of "Cimabue" in mosaic. In Lyndhurst church are mural decorations to the memory of Mr Pepys Cockerell, illustrating "The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins."

Among the poems written or at least sketched during this period were L'Oaristys, L'Aveugle, La Jeune Malade, Bacchus,Euphrosine and Ld Jeune Tarentine, the last a synthesis of his purest manner, mosaic though it is of reminiscences of at least a dozen classical poets.

Some recent finds have, indeed, seemed to make inferential reference to the Hebrews, and the marvellous collection of letters of the XVIIIth dynasty found at Tel el-Amarnaletters to which we shall refer later - have the utmost importance as proving a possible early date for the Mosaic accounts.

He was the first pope to date his acts according to the years of the Frankish monarchy, and a mosaic of the time in the Lateran palace represents St Peter bestowing the banners upon Charles as a token of temporal supremacy, while the coinage issued by the pope bears witness to the same idea.

The town was governed largely after the Mosaic law and continued essentially Puritan for fifty years or more; about 1730 Presbyterianism superseded Congregationalism, and in 1734 Colonel Josiah Ogden, having caused a schism in the preceding year, by saving his wheat one dry Sunday in a wet season, founded with several followers the first Episcopal or Church of England Society in Newark - Trinity Church.

The temple at Shiloh, where the ark was preserved, was the lineal descendant of the Mosaic sanctuary - for it was not the place but the palladium and its oracle that were the essential thing - and its priests claimed kin with Moses himself.

Most of the bestknown narratives of the patriarchal and Mosaic ages belong to " JE."

They are to all appearance the work of a school of priests, who, after the destruction of the Temple in 586 B.C., began to write down and codify the ceremonial regulations of the pre-exilic times, combining them with an historical narrative extending from the Creation to the establishment of Israel in Canaan; and who completed their work during the century following the restoration in 537 B.C. The chief object of these sections is to describe in detail the leading institutions of the theocracy (Tabernacle, sacrifices, purifications, &c.), and to refer them to their traditional origin in the Mosaic age.

In " P's " picture of the Mosaic age there are many ideal elements; it represents the priestly ideal of the past rather than the past as it actually was.

Carlstadt again definitely denied the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch on the ground that Moses could not have written the account of his own death and yet that Deut.

In the criticism of the Pentateuch his most influential and enduring contributions to criticism are his proof that Deuteronomy is a work of the 7th century B.C., and his insistence that the theory of the Mosaic origin of all the institutions described in the Pentateuch is incompatible with the history of Israel as described in the historical books, Judges, Samuel and Kings.

A large number of statues have been found in the villa, and costly foreign marbles and fine mosaic pavements, some of the last being preserved in situ, while among others may be named the mosaic of the doves in the Capitol and that of the masks in the Vatican.

In the department of natural theology and the Christian evidences he ably advocated that method of reconciling the Mosaic narrative with the indefinite antiquity of the globe which William Buckland (1784-1856) advanced in his Bridgewater Treatise, and which Dr Chalmers had previously communicated to him.

There were the retarding influences of the Mosaic account of sudden creation, and the belief that fossils represented relics of a universal deluge.

Then the royal body was invested in the mantles of his patron-gods, especially that of the war-god, for Mexican kings were warriors; on his face was placed a mask of turquoise mosaic, and a green chalchihuite-stone as a heart between his lips.

With the exception of a high dado, itself very beautiful, made of marble slabs with bands of mosaic between them, the whole interior surface of the walls, including soffits and jambs of all the arches, is covered with minute mosaic-pictures in brilliant colours on a gold ground.

The mosaic pictures are arranged in tiers, divided by horizontal and vertical bands.

The pavement of the triple choir, though much restored, is a very magnificent specimen of marble and porphyry mosaic in opus alexandrinum, with signs of Arab influence in its main lines.

Although it did not enter into the calendar of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of Theodosius, it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all eastern countries; and as it forms neither an aliquot part of the year nor of the lunar month, those who reject the Mosaic recital will be at a loss, as Delambre remarks, to assign it to an origin having much semblance of probability.

The museum contains inscriptions, mosaic pavements, &c., from the ancient town, of which no remains beyond those mentioned now exist above ground.

He endeavoured to prove that early Greek philosophers had borrowed largely from certain parts of Scripture, and quoted from Linus, Orpheus, Musaeus and others, passages which strongly resemble the Mosaic writings.

Uromys differs from Mus in having the scales of the tail not overlapping, but set edge to edge, so as to form a sort of mosaic work.

There is a collection of Roman and medieval antiquities, among which is preserved a fine Roman mosaic discovered in 1893.

Their internal fittingshypocausts, frescoes, mosaics - are everywhere Roman; those at Silchester are average specimens, and, except for one mosaic, not individually striking.

The origin of the ciborium is not certain, but it is represented in a mosaic at Thessalonica of a date not later than A.D.

Ramsay, The Letters to the Seven Churches, 1 55 f.), whose zeal for the Temple and the Mosaic ritual customs led to Paul's arrest in Jerusalem (Acts xix.

Among these last may be noted his argument against the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, his views as to the manner in which the five books were composed, his opinions (singularly free for the time in which he lived) on the subject of inspiration in general, and particularly as to the inspiration of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Canticles.

Here is a grotto in the natural rock, containing a beautiful coloured mosaic pavement, representing a sea-scene---- a temple of Poseidon on the shore, with various fish swimming in the sea.

To the east of this is a large space, now open, but once very possibly roofed, and forming a basilica in two storeys, built against the rock on the north side, and there decorated with pilasters also; and to the east again is an apsidal hall, often identified with the temple itself, in which the famous mosaic with scenes from the Nile, now in the Palazzo Barberini on the uppermost terrace, was found.

This violation of the Mosaic law and his continued cruelty roused the Jews, who complained to Augustus.

The same character of elaborate decoration, guided almost uniformly by good taste and artistic feeling, is displayed in the mosaic pavements, which in all but the humbler class of houses frequently form the ornament of their floors.

C. t has for its subject pavements and roads, their construction, mosaic floors; c. 2 is on white stucco for walls (opus albarium); c. 3 on concrete vaults, gypsum mouldings, stucco prepared for painting; c. 4 on building of hollow walls to keep out the damp, wall decoration by various processes; c. 5 on methods and styles of wall painting, the debased taste of his time; c. 6 on fine stucco made of pounded marble - three coats to receive wall paintings; c. 7 on colours used for mural decoration; c. 8 on red lead (minium) and mercury, and how to use the latter to extract the gold from wornout pieces of stuff or embroidery; c. 9 on the preparation of red lead and the method of encaustic painting with hot wax, finished by friction; cc. to-14 on artificial colours - black, blue, purple;, c. to white lead and ostrum, i.e.

The Mosaic Law was respected, but Hellenism still found an entrance in various forms. The first Hasmonaean " king," Aristobulus I.

The language, style and contents of this section point unmistakably to the hand of P; and it is now generally admitted that these chapters form part of an ideal representation of the post-exilic ritual system, which has been transferred to the Mosaic age.

Vitale at Ravenna, though built in Justinian's reign, and containing mosaic pictures of him and Theodora, does not appear to have owed anything to his mind or purse.

To those accustomed to look on the Ten Words written on the tables of stone as the very foundation of the Mosaic law, it is hard to realize that in ancient Israel there were two opinions as to what these "Words" were.

Paolo fuori le Mura at Rome, with pairs of small columns supporting arches, and decorations in coloured mosaic ("Cosmatesque" work).

The French have made good progress in their work at Delos, where the town site is now said to be a Hellenistic Pompeii, its houses still preserving their mosaic floors and frescopainted walls.

In the early r6th century the use of the vernacular is extended, chiefly in the treatment of historical and polemical subjects, as in Murdoch Nisbet's version of Purvey (in MS. till 1901), a compromise between northern and southern usage; Gau's (q.v.) Richt Vay, translated from Christiern Pedersen; Bellenden's (q.v.) translation of Livy and Scottish History; the Complaynt of Scotlande, largely a mosaic of translation from the French; Ninian Winzet's (q.v.) Tractates; Lesley's (q.v.) History of Scotland; Knox's (q.v.) History; Buchanan's (q.v.) Chamaeleon; Lindesay of Pitscottie's (q.v.) History; and the tracts of Nicol Burne and other exiled Catholics.

Their experimental work shows that many facts of inheritance correspond with the theory that the essential fabric of an organism is a mosaic of unit characters.

It is equally clear that there is a broad analogy between the kind of characters on which systematists often have to rely for the separation of species and those which Mendelian workers have shown to behave in accordance with the Mendelian theories of mosaic inheritance with segregation.

Gressmann, The uniqueness of the Old Testament religion is stamped upon the Mosaic legislation, which combines in archaic manner ritual, ethical and civil enactments.

There is a marked growth of refinement and of ideas of morality, and a condemnation of the shameless vice and oppression which went on amid a punctilious and splendid worship. It is extremely significant that between the teaching of the prophetical writings and the spirit of the Mosaic legislation there is an unmistakable bond.

The Mosaic law, in its reforming aspect, is characterized by the denunciation of heathenism and heathenish usages which belong to the old religion.

Regarded as an historical work there is a remarkable absence of proportion, and a loss of perspective in the relation between antediluvian, patriarchal, Mosaic and later periods.

His temporary success reveals the strength of the party who wished to adopt the Greek way of life without consenting to the complete substitution of the authority of Antiochus for the prescriptions of the Mosaic Law.

While polygamy was the rule in biblical days among the ancient Jews, and was permitted and even enjoined in certain cases by the Mosaic law, the Christian Church, though it is nowhere forbidden, except for "bishops," in the New Testament, has always set its face against it.

The Mosaic account, then, is to be looked upon merely as a mode in which is faintly shadowed forth what is above finite comprehension.

Chrysoprase, mined near Porterville and near Visalia (Tulare county), is used partly for gems, but more largely (like the vesuvianite found near Exeter, in the same county) for mosaic work; and there are ledges of fine rose quartz in the Coahuila mountains of Riverside county and near Lemon Cove, Tulare county.

In the town itself there are remains of a theatre, of Roman baths (?), a mosaic pavement in the church of St Leoluca (patron saint of Monteleone), and some Latin inscriptions.

The interior has a mosaic pavement of the 12th-13th centuries.

The remains existing within them are entirely Roman-a row of vaulted substructions, a water reservoir and a mosaic with representations of fishes.

The town has a sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, and a communal college among its institutions; and it has tile and mosaic works and flour-mills, and manufactories of boots and shoes and brooms. There is trade in truffles, fruit, wine, &c.

Literary and historical criticism places the discussion on another basis when it treats the Mosaic Torah in its present form as a post-exilic compilation (about 5th century B.C.) from sources differing in date, origin and history.

In the Old Testament many laws in the Mosaic legislation are certainly post-Mosaic and the value of not a few narratives lies, not in their historical or biographical information, but in their treatment of law, ritual, custom, belief, &c. Later developments are exemplified in the pseudepigraphical literature, notably in the Book of Jubilees, and when we reach the Mishnah and Talmud, we have only the first of a new series of stages which, it may be said, culminate in the 16th-century Shulhan `Aruk, the great compendium of the then existing written and oral law.

It is said that, though he was a pupil of Ammonius, he was at first a Christian, and he has been credited with the authorship of a commentary on the Mosaic Cosmogony in eight books, dedicated to Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, and edited by Balthasar Corderius in 1630.

In these caverns there are numerous stalactite structures, which, from their curious and fantastic shapes, have received such names as the Image of the Virgin, the Mosaic Altar, &c. The principal parts are the Paradies with the finest stalactites, the Astronomical Tower and the Beinhaus.

The shore of the channel facing Rheneia is lined with docks and warehouses, and behind them, as well as elsewhere in the island, there have been found several private houses of the 2nd or 3rd century B.C. Each of these consists of a single court surrounded by columns and often paved with mosaic; various chambers open out of the court, including usually one of large proportions, the avSpcwv or dining-room for guests.

Support is found for this opinion in Beyerinek's discovery that the juices of tobacco plants affected with the disease known as " leaf mosaic," will induce this disease after filtration through porcelain.

Blount adopted and expanded Hobbes's arguments against the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch; and, mainly in the words of Burnet's Archeologiae philosophicae, he asserts the total inconsistency of the Mosaic Hexaemeron with the Copernican theory of the heavens, dwelling with emphasis on the impossibility of admitting the view developed in Genesis, that the earth is the most important part of the universe.

The deists had made the absence of any inculcation of the doctrine of a future life an objection to the divine authority of the Mosaic writings.

The result is a curious mosaic, in which pieces of all colours and dates are found side by side, and in which even the great artistic skill displayed throughout fails to conceal the lack of internal unity.

Besides the mining and metallurgic industries, Bilbao has breweries, tanneries, flour mills, glass works, brandy distilleries, and paper, soap, cotton and mosaic factories.

In 1709 he published (at the Hague) Adeisidaemon and Origines Judaicae, in which, amongst other things, he maintained that the Jews were originally Egyptians, and that the true Mosaic institutions perished with Moses.

The space within is paved with mosaic, and is called the I;Iijr. It is included in the tawaf, and two slabs of verde antico within it are called the graves of Ishmael and Hagar, and are places of acceptable prayer.

The chapel, with fine oak choir-stalls, mosaic pavements, marble altars and stained glass, and with adjoining cloisters, was dedicated in 1890.

The cathedral, ruined by earthquakes, was restored in 1743-1749, but has some remains of its mosaic pavement (1178).

But, in so far as it claims to deal with special revelation, it lifts itself out of the circle of the sciences, and turns away from natural know 1 Other usages of O€oXoyla are the Divine nature of Christ (St John Chrysostom, quoted in Konstantinides' Greek Lexicon), Old and New Testaments (Theodoret, ib.); Greek theology and Mosaic or revealed theology (Theodoret).

Happily the sultan allowed the mosaic figures, then exposed to view, to be covered with matting before being plastered over.

The church belongs to the 12th century, and the original portal, with a mosaic over it, is still preserved; the interior was restored in 1574 and in 1754, but there are some remains of frescoes of the 13th century.

Then, when Christianity threw off the Mosaic ritual, this religious sense of purity was left with no other sphere besides morality; while, from its highly idealized character, it was peculiarly well adapted for that repression of vicious desires which Christianity claimed as its special function.

This book was long the storm-centre of Pentateuchal criticism, orthodox scholars boldly asserting that any who questioned its Mosaic authorship reduced it to the level of a pious fraud.

In the beginning of the 19th century de Wette startled the religious world by declaring that Deuteronomy, so far from being Mosaic, was not known till the time of Josiah.

It was long supposed to mean the whole of our present Deuteronomy; indeed, it is on that supposition that the traditional view of the Mosaic authorship is based.

Until 1905 the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little shows above ground except portions of the retaining walls; the socalled Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas; the ruins of a circular structure; some remains of late Roman fortifications; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

On internal grounds it appears that the Pentateuch and Joshua, as they now read, virtually come in between an older history by "Deuteronomic" compilers (easily recognizable in Judges and Kings), and the later treatment of the monarchy in Chronicles, where tie influence of the circle which produced P and the present Mosaic legislation is quite discernible.

Thus the book of Genesis represents the result of efforts to systematize the earliest history, and to make it a worthy prelude to the Mosaic legislation which formed the charter of Summary.

No more far-seeing than the Directory or the men of the year III., he thought that, with energy and execution, he might succeed in the Peninsula as he had succeeded in Italy in 1796 and 1797, in Egypt, and in Hesse, and that he might cut into Spanish granite as into Italian mosaic or that big cake, Germany.

His commentary on the Pentateuch, in particular, has been printed in hundreds of editions; it is still to Jews the most beloved of all commentaries on the Mosaic books.

Remains of a theatre are visible, and remains of many other buildings have been discovered, among them traces of the ancient city walls, a fine mosaic, found in 1852 but at once destroyed, and a number of tombs to the west of the theatre.

The four cardinal virtues are represented as forms of wisdom, which again is inseparable from the Mosaic law.

Here also, not far from the shore, the remains of Roman baths, with a fine coloured mosaic pavement, representing deities riding on marine monsters, were found in 1907.

Tacitus and Josephus mention boats on the lake, and boats are shown upon it in the Madeba mosaic. The navigation dues formed part of the revenue of the lords of Kerak under the crusaders.

A Roman house in the upper part of the town, with mosaic pavements, probably belonged to Vespasia Polla, the mother of the emperor Vespasian.

Over the main entrance is a large mosaic of Christ enthroned, with the Virgin and St John, by the artist Solsernus (1207).

The USDA APHIS reviews indicate that promoters such as figwort mosaic virus or rice actin are often employed.

Apparently when they came to the Basilica in Bethlehem they refused to destroy it because of a mosaic depicting the adoration of the Magi.

A stained glass window, left, depicts poets and musicians, and there is a carved wood altar and mosaic screen.

One contained an amphora full of reclaimed mosaic pieces, presumably for use by the town's building trade.

A mosaic of four images of the near-Earth asteroid Eros, taken by the NEAR probe on 14 February 2000.

She disagreed, and bade au revoir to her favorite mosaic, the " unswept floor " in the Vatican.

See also the mosaic designs in the floor depicting HMS Victory and a dreadnought battleship.

Careful rotational heather burning by the gamekeeper maintains a mosaic of heather of variable age.

Recently cassava mosaic virus wiped out the entire cassava mosaic virus wiped out the entire cassava crop in Zambia.

The surface of the concrete was finished by hand before the mosaic of tiles, mirrors and handmade ceramics was applied.

Mosaic tiled floors, hand carved inlaid furniture and glittering chandeliers set the tone of faded elegance in this 486 room hotel.

Working with old bicycle wheels and broken china, our mosaic making workshops are great examples of recycling materials.

The mosaic cosmogony has been called " the proem to Genesis.

I researched on the internet whether you could use broken crockery to make a mosaic on a floor.

Press in the broken crockery to form your mosaic.

He is also responsible for the extensive cycles of mosaic and fresco decoration, from which the church is justifiably famous.

The monument is surfaced in an irregular mosaic of white and near-white tiles that evoke the desolation and grandeur of the Antarctic ice.

Is He less precious in Himself now than He was under the dark mosaic dispensation of the gospel?

Mosaic created a huge feeding frenzy that has got a lot of people who are reading this their jobs.

The Appeal is also creating a unique mosaic frieze to hang in the planned Center, once the building is open.

I agree with her, the mosaic glass cutters are much better than tile nippers.

Vitamin C was also able to inactivate other viruses in vitro, including herpes simplex, rabies, and tobacco mosaic virus.

The interior of the hotel presents a kaleidoscope of impressions including the European marble mosaic of the entrance court.

Iraq is a mosaic of different ethnic, religious, and even linguistic, communities.

Overview The city's mosaic of different nationalities has created a dynamic microcosm, making Toronto the cultural heart of English Canada.

They capture sunshine like lanterns composed of the most intricate glass mosaic.

A ceramic mosaic of special design covered the floor of the new vestibule and the entrance was an ornate display of early English Architecture.

Concrete planter decorated with mosaic A detail of a vase This mosaic mural is on the south wall of the house.

Emergence, spread and strategies for controlling the pandemic of cassava mosaic virus disease in east and central Africa.

Satellite RNA for control of plant diseases caused by cucumber mosaic virus.

Protection of transgenic plants expressing the coat protein gene of watermelon mosaic virus II or zucchini yellow mosaic virus against six potyviruses.

The genetic control of resistance to turnip mosaic virus in Brassica.

The garden opening was marked by the unveiling of a mosaic mural illustrating the group's cultural history.

Good exterior mosaic tile patterning and a big bold nameplate.

The Great Bath, which is still fed today by a Roman lead conduit, was originally decorated with intricate Roman mosaic pavements.

The source of the water was sealed in Victorian times in a massive round marble pedestal which was decorated with mosaic stones.

An imposing exterior has a splendid pillared portico with large lamps and a fine mosaic floor.

The cauliflower mosaic virus promoter plays a major role.

The MECS BeppoSAX mosaic image of four of the newly discovered pulsars in the SMC.

Recombination of a functional red clover necrotic mosaic virus by recombination rescue of the cell-to-cell movement gene expressed in a transgenic plant.

The mosaic design is based upon a crater or wine mixing bowl that sits within a central roundel.

The nucleotide sequence of the infectious cloned DNA components of potato yellow mosaic virus.

Those such as the former " wheat American striate mosaic virus " will become " Wheat American striate mosaic virus " will become " Wheat American striate mosaic virus " .

Includes a mosaic builder where you can play with your shopping basket fabric swatches online.

The book also includes decorative mosaic treatments that can be used to create ornamental tabletops, coffee tables and garden planters.

The small tesserae found in the filling would have related to the mosaic decoration of the dome.

No laid tesserae were found, but many loose ones and some small mosaic tesserae.

We obtained colored marble tesserae and technical advice from the Mosaic Workshop in London.

There was a central corridor with a floor made of red terracotta tesserae and inlaid mosaic panels.

The only touch of color can be found in the deep blue mosaic tiles in the walk in oval shower.

Disks of different sizes break up the mosaic tiling.

The emphasis is on form, rather than color, and the mosaic is plain marble tiling.

The problem with the second solution is that at least Mosaic's handling of documents with labels seems unnatural to me.

Bracken removal and heathland restoration on Trinity Hill west would result in a mixed age mosaic of heathland vegetation.

The geology of the earth actually is a beautiful mosaic of rock formations that confirm the historical veracity of Noah's Flood.

The bar is made of American walnut, with a marble mosaic frontage.

Situated in an inter-drumlin wetland this small mesotrophic lake is fringed by a mosaic of notable vegetation communities.

And they have gone to considerable lengths to relate such material to mosaic Yahwism in the way we have shown above.

The equally magnificent cloisters of the Lateran, of about the same date, are very similar in design; both these triumphs of the sculptor-architect's and mosaicist's work have slender marble columns, twisted or straight, richly inlaid with bands of glass mosaic in delicate and brilliant patterns.

The traditional theory of the Mosaic origin of the elaborate Levitical legislation cannot be maintained save by the most arbitrary and inconsequential treatment of the evidence and by an entire indifference to the historical spirit; and, although numerous points of detail still remain very obscure, the three leading stages in the Levitical institutions are now recognized by nearly all independent scholars.

Baxter, Sanctuary and Sacrifice (2895)' it existed in the post-exilic age was really the work of Moses, it is inexplicable that all trace of it was so completely lost that the degradation of the non-Zadokites in Ezekiel was a new feature and a punishment, whereas in the Mosaic law the ordinary Levites, on the traditional view, was already forbidden priestly rights under penalty of death.

Even if it could be shown that the Pentateuchal regulations were universally observed in Israel from Mosaic times, it would not preclude a certain indebtedness to Babylonia for at least the germ of the institution.

Elisabeth was found in 1876 a fine mosaic in black on a white ground representing Orpheus in the midst of the beasts (Notizie degli scavi, 1876,181; 1877 309).

Many of the Mosaic laws find parallels and analogies in all ages outside the sphere of Israelite influence, notably in the laws codified several centuries previously by the Babylonian king Khammurabi (see Babylonian LAw).

They identify with Deuteronomy the law-roll which explains the noteworthy reforms of Josiah (§ 16); but since it is naturally admitted that religious conditions had become quite inconsistent with Mosaism, the conservative view implies that the " long-lost " Deuteronomy must have differed profoundly from any known Mosaic writings to which earlier pious kings and prophets had presumably adhered.

In elevation the façade seems to have connexion with the five-bayed façade of the Kahriyeh Jame, or mosaic mosque, at Constantinople.

There is a large trade in Tunbridge ware, which includes work-tables, boxes, toys, &c., made of hard woods, such as beech, sycamore, holly, and cherry, and inlaid with mosaic. Tunbridge Wells was incorporated in 1889, and is governed by a mayor, 8 aldermen and 24 councillors.

Another species of glass manufacture in which the Egyptians would appear to have been peculiarly skilled is the so-called mosaic glass, formed by the union of rods of various colours in such a manner as to form a pattern; the rod so formed was then reheated and drawn out until reduced to a very small size, z sq.

A zodiac on the " astrological altar of Gabies " in the Louvre illustrates the apportionment of the signs among the inmates of the Roman Pantheon; 3 and they occur as a classical reminiscence in the mosaic pavements of San Miniato and the baptistery at Florence the cathedral of Lyons, and the crypt of San Savino at Piacenza.4 Zodiacal symbolism became conspicuous in medieval art.

The arrangement of the leaves on the stem and branches (see Phyllotaxy, below) is such as to prevent the upper leaves shading the lower, and the shape of the leaf serves towards the same end - the disposition of leaves on a branch or stem is often seen to form a "mosaic," each leaf fitting into the space between neighbouring leaves and the branch on which they are borne without overlapping.

Michele in respect of its facade (though it has not the elaborate sculptures), dome and mosaic pavements.

As a whole, Chronicles presents the period from a later ecclesiastical standpoint, presupposing (in contrast to Samuel) the fully developed " Mosaic " ritual (see Chronicles).

The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome is a mosaic of discrete sequence classes.

Those such as the former " wheat American striate mosaic virus " will become " Wheat American striate mosaic virus ".

Terrazzo marble in Venetian mosaic is used for the floors of the entrance hall and corridors, and the steps of the staircase.

A number of exquisitely beautiful objects decorated with turquoise mosaic have survived.

Woodlarks require a mosaic of bare ground or short vegetation for feeding, and tussocks of vegetation with disturbed ground for nest sites.

The problem with the second solution is that at least Mosaic 's handling of documents with labels seems unnatural to me.

The geology of the earth actually is a beautiful mosaic of rock formations that confirm the historical veracity of Noah 's Flood.

And they have gone to considerable lengths to relate such material to Mosaic Yahwism in the way we have shown above.

The massive 70-room, 130,000-square foot mansion was modeled after the grand palazzos of 16th century Turin, Italy, embellished by such details as 45-foot tall Corinthian columns and mosaic tile ceilings.

Highlights of the Breakers include a blue marble fireplace, rose alabaster pillars in the dining room, a an intricate mosaic porch ceiling, which took Italian artisans six months lying on their backs to complete.

Embellishments like nail head trim, gold leaf, tile accents, metal hardware, and mosaic inlays enhance the interest of these furniture pieces.

The pattern of a mosaic can be random, or the fragmented pieces can recreate the imagery of a landscape, still-life, or portrait.

Many glass tile companies offer mosaic tiles, which can be configured into an incredible array of patterns.

Ancient Greeks and Romans used stencils for outlining various mosaic collages and even for signage, but the favorite stencil usage in ancient Rome and Greece were for intricate murals.

Typically the counter finish complements your color scheme rather than takes center stage, unless you choose a dramatic tile pattern, such as decorative glass or mosaic tile, that wraps the backsplash and up the wall to form an accent area.

Whether you choose to use wall paint, acrylic or oil paint, mosaic tile or even reusable vinyl wall art, fun wall murals can be created anywhere in your home.

Mosaic tile murals may seem like the height of elegance and beauty, as well as expense.

But mosaic designers like Sara Baldwin of New Ravenna are using new materials to create fun and innovative patterns.

The mosaic tiles are pieced together in the factory and then cut into numbered sheets.

Mosaic tiles are small tiles 2-inches in size or smaller.

Use mosaics all over your backsplash for a contemporary look, or create a focal point behind your cooktop with mosaic tiles while you use a more traditional tile along the counters.

For modern kitchens, use a machine made ceramic tile in a bold hue and intricate design, such as red mosaic tiles in a repeating pattern.

Talavera pottery is a Mexican style of ceramic that usually hand painted with colorful motifs or intricate mosaic patterns.

Tile and mosaic borders or decorative tiles hung individually to create a pattern.

Scatter a few brightly colored mosaic tiles on a coffee table to serve as coasters.

Install a colorful mosaic tile or metal back splash for instant character.

Bathrooms with a lot going on, such as mosaic designs, borders, chair rails and decorative lights and faucets need a simple place to rest the eye.

Blown glass, stained glass, fabric and mosaic shades, with chains of varying color and length bring these lamps into modern design.

Debbie Mumm's Easy Breezy Mosaic Garden Accessories include ideas for a birdhouse and flowerpot that use sea glass in their designs.

Sea Glass Mosaic Candlesticks are a pretty way to display taper candles on your beach wedding tables.

If you can't think of a way to fit your design onto single cupcakes but you think it might work in a bigger shape, try making a cupcake mosaic picture by combining several decorated cupcakes in a specific placement.

It is usually in a separate area of the deck and restfully decorated with lush foliage, mosaic tiles, and other sumptuous details.

Depending on your garden's central theme, either line the pond with artistic tiles or use broken colored pieces within a concrete base around planters or walkways as an appealing mosaic.

For this design choice, skip the fun and funky mosaic patterns and bold colored ceramic tiles and instead, go with warm beige Travertine for the floors and a dark black granite for the counter tops.

Mix and match - If you can't decide between solid bathroom tiles and mosaic's, why not mix and match it up a bit?

Lay a border of mosaic tile around your solid tiles to create a focal point for your bathroom.

Most glass tile is made into small squares for mosaic patterns.

They then color it for both looks to hide the matting supporting it in mosaic form or mortar to hold it in place.

Tessera is a line of mosaic tiles that are cast in more than 40 iridescent and non-iridescent colors, as well as blends and patterns that can be customized.

So if you have a honed black granite counter, a mosaic backsplash will pair up better than it would with a busy counter of Juparano Fantastico.

Three-dimensional art tiles, mosaic tiles made of stone, glass or metal, varying shapes sizes and colors are being produced in an endless array of backsplash tiles.

Have a mosaic art tile company reproduce a map of an island where you honeymooned in polished and tumbled marble pieces and frame it behind your cooktop.

For decades, a mosaic tile pattern in two colors on the floor, with the same two colors mirrored on the walls was included in nearly every bathroom.

River rock mosaics, contemporary mosaic patterns and porcelain tiles that mimic the look of leather, fabric and wood have spurred new interest in tile designs.

Through the influence of Mosaic teaching and law a definitely ethical character was ascribed to Yahweh.

It was this definite basis of ethical Mosaic religion to which the prophets of the 8th century appealed, and apart from which their denunciations become meaningless.

In elevation the façade seems to have connexion with the five-bayed façade of the Kahriyeh Jame, or mosaic mosque, at Constantinople.

A copy of the Orit or Mosaic law is kept in the holy of holies in every synagogue.

Its pulpit is decorated with the richest polychrome mosaic that can be found anywhere in Sicily or south Italy, and is quite Moslem in its brilliance.

There was in it a beautiful mosaic of which, fortunately, drawings exist.

Update a traditional mosaic bathroom floor by covering it in penny tiles - circular tiles in fun colors like seafoam green or cobalt blue.

Mosaic tile patterns that repeat every few tiles work well in backsplashes, if a definitive pattern is desired.

While mostly inexpensive, newer ceramic tiles featuring customized mosaic patterns can be ordered at an increase in price.

Millefiore images are created by layering glass rods to form a mosaic image of flowers as well as geometric shapes that are then heated and stretched in much the same way as hard candy is made.

Mosaic Klinefelter syndrome occurs when some of the cells in the body have an extra X chromosome and the other have normal male chromosomes.

This form of genetic disorder is called a mosaic.

Some researchers have suggested that individuals with this type of mosaic form of Down syndrome have less severe signs and symptoms of the disorder.

You can often purchase forms that you can finish by adding colorful creative mosaic patterns.

The top half of the suit is covered in a mosaic of tropical flowers with a solid bottom.

In fact, a 4th-century mosaic shows Roman women on holiday wearing what looks very much like modern (or at least 1960s) bikinis.

You could also try cutting up a spare deck of cards and making a piece of mosaic art or a decorative collage with the pieces.

Create a faux mosaic look by decoupaging the candle with different squares of tissue paper in coordinating colors.

Use broken dishes, old tiles, and other ceramic pieces to make a mosaic for a mirror or a table top.

Make a mosaic heart using shards of pottery or broken dishes (you can also buy mosaic bits at the craft store).

If you have a bit more time to spend on your project or you're looking for a craft that you can do with an older child, consider making mosaic flower pot crafts.

Cover your work area with newspaper, and sort through your pottery, beads, charms, and other embellishments to decide what items you want to use in your mosaic.

Press your mosaic pieces into the grout, arranging them in a pleasing pattern.

If needed, add more grout to cover any sharp edges in the mosaic.

Make your feathered friends a clay pot bird bath using mosaic tiles to create color and interest.

You can choose to either have the image stretch to fill the screen, stay its native size or make it a mosaic.

Noh and Gough try to figure out how two attacks on the Mosaic team are linked to everything going on.

They follow up on a clue from Benford's Mosaic board.

The Mosaic Netscape web browser, created by Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen in 1994, completely revolutionized the Internet and made it more accessible to people outside of the academic community.

The uppermost is a purely muscular cell from the sub-umbrella; the two lower are epidermo-muscular cells from the base of a tentacle; the upstanding nucleated portion forms part of the epidermal mosaic on the free surface of the body.

Of Roman Ravenna nothing remains above ground, though a little has been found by excavation, including a mosaic pavement at Classe.

The cathedral, of the 12th century, has a carved portal and three apses decorated with small arches and pilasters, and contains a fine pulpit and episcopal throne in marble mosaic. Near it are two grottos 1 To the period after 335 belong numerous silver and bronze coins with the legend Caleno.

The same subject is illustrated by a picture-map in mosaic, portions of which were discovered in 1896 on the floor of the church of Madaba to the east of the Dead Sea.

In 1884-86 portions of a number of fine mosaic pavements were discovered extending over a very large area under the cloister and other parts of the cathedral, about 7 ft.

They had geometric patterns with birds, trees, &c., and bore inscriptions in mosaic with the names of the donors.

A piece of a Roman mosaic was called a tessera.

It is a mosaic from Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Fortunatus, composed in the manner of Einhard's use of Suetonius, and exhibits a true poetic gift.

Cesareo; this is a marble altar richly decorated with mosaic in sculptured panels, and (below) two angels drawing back a curtain (all in marble) so as to expose the open grating of the confessio.