Pavement Sentence Examples

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  • The cathedral pavement is almost unique.

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  • The pavement of the nave, on the other hand, is of the 16th century.

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  • Jennifer said nothing more for the remainder of the trip down the mountain until the Jeep finally rolled onto pavement and they entered the still busy town.

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  • A group of Italic cremation tombs a pozzo of the Villanova period were found under the pavement of the medieval Vicolo del Campidoglio.

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  • Do not use scooters on uneven pavement and gravel.

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

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  • They just went ahead and resurfaced the pavement before our work.

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  • A coal seam with a soft pavement and a hard roof is the most subject to a " creep."

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  • Spider web patterns stuck on the slippery, shining icy pavement.

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  • Toward the middle of the basin a limestone outcrop has been smoothed by passing ice, forming pavement.

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  • Plant supported himself with a stint at Woolworths and laying pavement for Wimpey's construction.

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  • If he ever leapt off another building, he'd choose pavement, which might have some give to it.

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  • Slip, Trip or Fall Claims You may have suffered the misfortune to trip or fall on a poorly maintained road or pavement.

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  • Or head for the terrace of a pavement cafe, enjoy a refreshing mint tea whilst watching this uniquely colorful pageant.

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  • There is a long sea-front boulevard with lots of pavement cafes and tables under colorful sun parasols.

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  • Under these pews is a Roman tessellated pavement thought to have been used by the masons to floor part of the previous Saxon church.

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  • Pruning is carried out to ensure trees do not obstruct the pavement, highway or adjoining property.

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  • Stand on the pavement near the curb Do not stand on the very edge of the pavement near the curb Do not stand on the very edge of the pavement.

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  • The single sized nature of the sub-base required in a pervious pavement requires a low fines content.

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  • Typical cases involve people tripping over an uneven pavement, or slipping on some substance spilled on the floor.

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  • The increasing use of pavement scooters is another element to consider in the planning of roads and pavement scooters is another element to consider in the planning of roads and pavements.

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  • Once you have a portfolio assembled, it's time to start pounding the pavement, whether real or virtual, in search of a way to get paid to take pictures.

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  • This hall of fame includes a plaque for each celebrity that graces the pavement, forever immortalized by a bronze star.

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  • Britney's bodyguard caught both Brit and baby before they hit the pavement.

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  • If you want to work off-campus, you'll need to grab a copy of your local newspaper and start pounding the pavement.

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  • When light rays impact a flat surface such as a car windshield, water, snow, or pavement, they are diffused in all directions.

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  • Polarized lenses for sports are important because they block the glare that is often magnified by flat surfaces (like water or pavement).

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  • Polarized lenses reduce reflections from sunlight on pavement and other surfaces.

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  • Most lenses are coated with a smudge resistant coating that repels water, dust and oils from the skin and are designed to resist glare which can result when the sun's reflection hits the pavement.

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  • Most sites will accommodate RV's up to 40 feet long and an additional off pavement tent.

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  • If your stylist starts to recommend a nice, conservative style during the hair consultation, it's time to hit the pavement and find a more artistic salon.

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  • To really appreciate the City's charms nothing beats putting on a pair of walking shoes and hitting the pavement.

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  • Horizontal polarization is the light reflected from semi-flat surfaces such as the pavement and sand mentioned earlier, and it is this type of light that causes that unpleasant glare.

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  • To get out, put your feet firmly on the pavement first, knees together, before pulling the rest of yourself out.

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  • Blair pounded the pavement, stopping in at local clothing stores only to sell a single black raincoat.

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  • I will think of you proudly as I bravely pound the pavement.

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  • There is absolutely no need for today's youth to suffer from hot sand or pavement, to get splinters from beach boardwalks or to cut their feet on sharp sea shells or sea glass.

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  • If you run often, and it's always on pavement, you could sustain significant damage to your knees.

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  • Pavement once wisely sang, "hey, you've got pay your dues before you pay the rent," and truer words were never spoken.

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  • At Nennig is a fine Roman mosaic pavement.

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  • In 1893 the construction was completed in Budapest of an underground railway with a thin, flat roof, consisting of steel beams set close together, with small longitudinal jack arches between them, the street pavement .

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  • The floors of both crypts have sunk considerably and are often under water; this settlement accounts for the inequalities of the pavement.

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  • The committee secured much verde antico and porphyry for the restoration of the pavement, in place of the common marbles which it had been intended to use, and organized special workshops for the restoration and preservation of the ancient mosaics, which it had been intended to detach and replace.

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  • The picturesque modern town occupies the site of the old; the present piazza is the ancient Forum, and its pavement of slabs of travertine with the inscription "A.

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  • It is mainly built of red brick, with fine nave columns of red and white marble and an elaborate marble pavement inlaid in many different patterns.

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  • The first indication is a dull hollow sound heard when treading on the pavement or floor, probably occasioned r FIG.

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  • Around the whole tower was a pavement of inscribed baked bricks, resting on a layer of clay 2 ft.

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  • North of this gateway, but at a somewhat greater depth, traces of a pavement were found in the Altis.

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  • Many fish inhabited the Carboniferous seas and most of these were Elasmobranchs, sharks with crushing pavement teeth (Psammodus), adapted for grinding the shells of brachiopods, crustaceans, &c. Other sharks had piercing teeth (Cladoselache and Cladodus); some, the petalodonts, had peculiar cycloid cutting teeth.

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  • Opposite to this hall is the Sala de las dos Hermanas (Hall of the two Sisters), so-called from two very beautiful white marble slabs laid as part of the pavement.

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  • Soon after, Sankhkere entirely rebuilt the temple, laying a stone pavement over the area, about 45 ft.

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  • From its mouth to its extremity a pavement of broken pillars runs up one side.

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  • The cathedral, constructed in 1074 at the summit of the hill, is externally plain; it has a fine Gothic interior, somewhat spoilt by restoration, with a good Cosmati pavement, and a canopy and paschal candlestick in the same style.

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  • 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.

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

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  • Over all there was laid a layer of earth, a floor of logs or a pavement of flagstones.

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  • Streets and avenues for the most part are paved with a smooth asphalt pavement, and many of them have two and occasionally four rows of overarching shade trees and private lawns on either side.

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  • After further tentative explorations, he struck the actual pavement of the Artemision on the last day of 1869.

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  • About half its pavement, parts of the cella walls and of three columns of the peristyle, and the foundations of nearly all the platform, are still in position.

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  • For a long time no carts or carriages were permitted to enter the city for fear of polluting and injuring the pavement, and the transport of goods was carried on in hand-carts.

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  • The pavement (of 1111) is as richly inlaid as that of St Mark's, and the mosaics of the tribune are remarkable.

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  • It is full of huge glaciated blocks, and in different regions (Prieska chiefly) the underlying pavement is remarkably striated and shows that the ice was moving southward.

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  • Similar examinations by means of the stop-valves on the mains are also made, and it often happens that the residual leakage (400 gallons an hour in the last case) recorded on the diagram, but not shut off by the house stop - cocks, is mentioned by the inspector as an " outside waste," and localized as having been heard at a stop-cock and traced by sounding the pavement to a particular position under a particular street.

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

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  • It fronted on to the ancient forum, part of the pavement of which, with a base for the equestrian statues of Castor and Pollux (as the inscription upon it records) has been laid bare beneath the present Piazza Vittorio Emanuele.

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  • From each end of the house a curved colonnade and a pavement lead westerly to a row of out-buildings which partially enclose a bowling green and spacious lawn with shaded drives and walks, and beautiful gardens (with trees planted by Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette and others).

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  • The church contains frescoes by Lorenzo da Viterbo (1469) and a fine majolica pavement.

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  • He was liberal to the poor; it was his custom to comment severely in his preaching on the public characters of his times; and he introduced popular reforms in the order and manner of public worship. It is alleged, too, that at a time when the influence of Ambrose required vigorous support, he was admonished in a dream to search for, and found under the pavement of the church, the remains of two martyrs, Gervasius and Protasius.

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  • 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.

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  • It is formed of pavement epithelial cells, mainly grouped in a concentric manner around the vascular papillae of the subcorneous integument, so that a section near the base of the hoof, cut transversely to the long axis of these papillae, shows a number of small circular or oval orifices, with cells arranged concentrically round them.

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  • At the end of the pavement stand the band and bridge ascribed to the Roman emperor Valerian.

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  • The plan of all is the same - an open court, with a tesselated pavement, and one or two marble fountains; orange and lemon trees, flowering shrubs, and climbing plants give freshness and fragrance.

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  • Grasso dropped Molly on the pavement, causing a shudder to ripple across the room and a quick reaction from my wife.

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  • Before they hit the pavement, they disappeared.

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  • The jockeying crowd made it difficult for five-foot Cynthia Dean to catch more than a glimpse of the activity as bodies rolled and washed across the pavement and errant streams drenched the crowd.

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  • The pavement came from the site of a 3rd-century Roman villa along with a mural displayed on the wall of the south quire aisle.

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  • You can drink beer at a pavement cafe in the Roman forum or go shopping for designer clothes.

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  • I was sitting at a pavement cafe in Holland Park, sipping a cappuccino in the bright spring sunshine.

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  • Before they knew it there was an almighty crash, and the lot of them lay in a heap on the pavement.

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  • The spangled firmament is but the outside and pavement of that house where Christ and the saints meet.

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  • The field next to the Chapel had an overgrown hedge over the pavement which needed cutting back.

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  • The University will be building an outdoor pavement labyrinth in George Square Gardens over the summer months.

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  • Tommy pulls himself up to his window in time to see the heavy woman in the cloth overcoat fall to the pavement.

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  • The Place de la Loge boasts a pink marble pavement while rue de l'Ange is lined with smart boutiques and cafes.

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  • The western bank has vertical wooden pilings topped by a pavement.

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  • The Clerk reported that a village pothole and pavement review had been completed and the respective pothole repairs completed in May.

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  • Pedestrian guard railing protruding into the pavement or road.

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  • Unfortunately some heavier wheelchairs and pavement scooters cannot be taken on the bus.

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  • The pavement around the public telephone box outside the office block was carpeted in small safety glass shards of the booths own empty windows.

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  • Also imagine a badly fitted paving slab in the pavement immediately outside its front door.

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  • Its extremely sticky, gluing together any target's feet and hands to the pavement.

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  • Rather than put the trolly in a trolly park they had left it on a bit of pavement in the car park.

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  • The tessellated pavement which covers the basilica proper is in almost perfect condition.

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  • The interior of the town was divided by seven streets from east to west and eight from north to south into 72 insulae; and the ancient pavement and the drains below it are frequently found under the streets of the central portion of the modern town, indicating that they follow the ancient lines (see especially Notizie degli Scavi, 1902, p. 277).

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  • The style is Gothic, very elaborately decorated, but it shows many peculiarities, for the work was continued through several centuries and after many designs by many masters, notably by Amadeo, who carried out the octagonal cupola (the pinnacle of which dates from 1774), and by Tibaldi, who laid down the pavement and designed a baroque facade.

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  • Oh! he muttered, looking down from the window at the stones of the pavement.

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  • At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and Rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement.

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  • The young fellow on the box jumped down to hold the horses and Anatole and Dolokhov went along the pavement.

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  • The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement.

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  • From Sharon J, UK We had red biting ants and black pavement ants nesting in our walls when we moved in.

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  • With the chi rho in such a dominant position, it is probable that the remainder of the pavement has a Christian connotation.

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  • Its extremely sticky, gluing together any target 's feet and hands to the pavement.

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  • Whose justifiable disgust at the sight of discarded chewing gum or of dog turds on the pavement made him find alternative routes home.

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  • They are made to handle different types of terrain, so you won't be confined to asphalt or pavement.

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  • This phenomenon is what causes the glare reflected from a car window or chrome, or from a wet pavement.

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  • The scent of salt water is always in the air, and even when the hot, southern sun is beating down on the pavement in July, a cool breeze from the ocean brings sweet relief to the city.

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  • One great prank is to leave a message on a path they take every day, something only they would understand and write a word every few pavement sections.

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  • When wet leaves are on roadways, they make the pavement slippery and it can be difficult for drivers to get good traction.

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  • You'll use a plethora of weapons, fictitious and real, to pound your enemy into the pavement, or just explode the pavement underneath him.

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  • A recreational vehicle cannot be in the roadway or off the pavement.

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  • Sand, asphalt, and cement pavement can all become dangerously hot surfaces when the weather turns toasty, and walking on them barefoot can actually result in some uncomfortable burns.

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  • For example, if you are a faithful walker, pounding the pavement for the same amount of time and mileage each day, then most certainly add those calories to your daily intake needs.

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  • The solitary pounding of the pavement during a jog or the self-imposed isolation of standing in a corner lifting weights can get a bit tedious, especially for an extroverted person who thrives in the company of others.

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

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  • 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.

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  • Of the ancient city, which occupied the same site as the modern town, hardly anything is now visible, and the discoveries of the ancient street pavement have not been noted with sufficient care to enable us to recover the plan.

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  • Just outside the church in Parliament Square, the supposed grave of John Knox is indicated by a stone set in the pavement bearing his initials, and in the pavement to the west a heart indicates the site of the old Tolbooth,' which figures prominently in Scott's Heart of Midlothian.

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  • 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.

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  • Nor was it accessible to any description of wheeled carriages, and the nature of its pavement, composed of broad flags of travertine, shows that it was only intended for foot-passengers.

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  • Akhenaton has been so consistently eclipsed by the later kings who destroyed his work, that the painted pavement and the rock tablets of Tell el Amarna are the only monuments of his still in position, beside a few small inscriptions.

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  • Back on the pavement, Dean pedaled past Tom, a well-known wild turkey who'd in past months adopted a location on the highway from which he never seemed to stray more than a few hundred yards.

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  • The course of the road after the first six miles from Rome is not identical with that of any modern road, but can be clearly traced by remains of pavement and buildings along its course.

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  • The pavement consists partly of opus Alexandrinum of red and green porphyry mixed with marbles, partly of tesselated work of glass and marble tesserae.

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  • Those in the middle are thin, having only the pavement of the cella to support, and are provided with doors and partitions that make a sort of subterranean labyrinth.

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  • It was practically certain that by following up this pavement to its point of intersection with the road from Sicyon the agora would be discovered.

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  • 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.

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  • The best is dark-coloured whinstone, because it absorbs very little moisture, or in Scotland Caithness pavement 4 in.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Pope Lucius III., who held a council at Verona in 1184, is buried in the cathedral, under the pavement before the high altar.

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  • 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.

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  • The limestone pavement, with long porches on either side, was found to stop at the foot of a marble staircase of thirty-four steps of Byzantine construction, underneath which appeared a Roman arrangement of the two flights with a platform halfway up. The top flight led up to the propylaea.

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  • Such phenomena are nut uncommon in towns, where trees with their roots under pavement or other impervious covering do well for a time, but suddenly fail to supply the crown sufficiently with water during some hot summer.

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  • Beyond this we often find the calefactorium or day-room - an apartment warmed by flues beneath the pavement, where the brethren, half frozen during the night offices, betook themselves after the conclusion of lauds, to gain a little warmth, grease their sandals and get themselves ready for the work of the day.

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  • She opened her eyes, forbidding herself from screaming as the pavement below grew closer.

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  • The interior has a fine Cosmatesque pulpit supported by ancient columns resting on lions, a Paschal candlestick of 1245, and a good pavement of the same period with beasts and dragons.

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  • 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.

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