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...mes and the CO19 team were knocked off their feet by the shockwave of the blast. Masonry was blown down the corridor, sections of the ceiling collap... ... an invisible force, just as the ceiling in the corridor collapsed in a cloud of masonry, dust and smoke. Sam’s nightdress was only smouldering. She... ... not hurt her, but the building was collapsing. If she got caught under falling masonry, or the building fell down with her in it, even she may not... ... smoke. One woman was conscious and was vainly trying to free herself from the masonry. James picked his way through the rubble. Another section o... ... sky high and he was determined not to fail. He focused on the largest chunks of masonry first. It never occurred to him they might be too heavy to ... ...llowed by a collection of broken brickwork. Soon, chunks of ceiling, plaster and masonry were flying apart and scattering across the corridor. In le... ...on of the ceiling collapsed in the place where she had been sitting moments ago. Masonry fell on top of Philip’s already lifeless body. Sam felt nu...

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...rembling as if a giant hand had it in its grasp and was shaking it vigourously. Sounds of falling masonry and THE CURSE OF KALI 245 splintering g... ... took their toll. The Maharajah’s brass cannon were now pounding away at the walls but the solid masonry stood up well and where breaches occurred, ... ...onstant pounding was at last having an THE CURSE OF KALI 329 effect on the walls and crumbling masonry would soon make a breach wide enough for a...

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..., according a study published in December 2002 by the China Great Wall Academy. The masonry of the Wall has been eroded by nature and recycled into ...

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.... I uttered the Jewish prayer slowly, improvising some. The alien phrases recoiled from the masonry, bounced among the massive trestle-tops, ricoche...

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...rusalem spread around me, blocks of stone, yellow walls, piles of ancient masonry, new porticos, towers, shops... It was my city, my hated city; I es...

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...ll, the waves grumbling behind the stones, coming up, as it were, through masonry and ground. I noticed her hand in the grass. I noticed my own. It ... ...rusalem spread around me, blocks of stone, yellow walls, piles of ancient masonry, new porticos, towers, shops... It was my city, my hated city; I es... ...ched the Tour des Minimes— emphasizing its massive base line, the skillful masonry; as I sketched a playful squirrel climbed a birch, flipped from br... ...weight, gravity, power, fury, terror. The over- turned, whirling chunks of masonry, the enormous waves, defy. This is the end of man. I believe such ... .... I felt that whiteness slice my white belly: so, stumbling over Caesar’s masonry I was to die. But I am ’gainst self-slaughter and somehow drove hi...

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...ll, the waves grumbling behind the stones, coming up, as it were, through masonry and ground. I noticed her hand in the grass. I noticed my own. It ...

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...DY BATTLE WITH TLASCALANS. A few miles brought them in view of a solid wall of masonry, extending to the right and left, through valleys and over hill... ...was also full of those gigantic statues; some placed in groups on platforms of masonry; others single, fixed only in the earth, and that not deep; and... ...f nearly thirty persons, from the rays of the sun. "Some of these platforms of masonry are thirty or forty feet long, twelve or sixteen broad, and fro... ...ery large size, and the workmanship is not inferior to the best plain piece of masonry we have in England. They use no sort of cement; yet the joints ...

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...e circle of tombs, of dome-like structure, approached by long jaasspges of masonry, ending in arched doorways. Entering the famous Lion Gateway, the c...

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...ngth encountered some solid obstruction. It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry — very smooth, slimy, and cold. I followed it up; stepping with all... ...se serge. I had thought of forcing the blade in some minute crevice of the masonry, so as to identify my point of departure. The difficulty, neverthel... ... of course I had no means of ascertaining at the moment. Groping about the masonry just below the margin, I succeeded in dislodging a small frag ment... ...ntervals. The general shape of the prison was square. What I had taken for masonry seemed now to be iron, or some other metal in huge plates, whose su...

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...wall up the entrance of the niche. I had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a gre... ... forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century ...

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...h? But still more, all these separate flues, instead of having independent masonry establishments of their own, or instead of being grouped together i... ...often I go down into my cellar, and attentively survey that vast square of masonry. I stand long, and ponder over, and wonder at it. It has a druidic... ... my chimney—” “Personal?” “Sir, I look upon this chimney less as a pile of masonry than as a personage. It is the king of the house. I am but a suffer... ...ripening of the chimney’s gentle heat, distilled through that warm mass of masonry. Better for wines is it than voy- ages to the Indias; my chimney i... ...ni or other might have succeeded in future ages in penetrating through the masonry, and actually emerging into the dining-room, and once there, it wou... ...g that the profound mystery involving the former, and the equally profound masonry involving the latter, though both acknowledged facts, were alike pr...

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...talk to himself. “Blanche de Bechamel was wild, then, about this secret of Masonry. In early, early days I loved, I married a girl fair as Blanche, wh... ...my friend, have been absent once or twice to-night). To know the secret of Masonry was the wretched child’s mad desire. With a thou- sand wiles, smile...

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... 5 dinary dilapidation. No portion of the masonry had fallen; and there appeared to be a wild inconsistency between i...

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... most intimate sense; that this profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock, is not a drop-scene in a theatre, but a city in th... ...s’ feet. But it is not only pipers who have vanished, many a solid bulk of masonry has been likewise spirited into the air. Here, for example, is the ...

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... thickness, kept off all sounds behind them. The Egyptian character of the masonry weighed upon me with its gloom. But a soft impris- oned turf grew u...

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... loggia, which opposes the free and elegant span of its arches to the dead masonry of the palace; a figure su- premely shapely and graceful; gentle, a...

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...d on the strand, the municipality had constructed a sort of break-water of masonry, which may still be seen on some old plans of Paris, and which pres...

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...liar ruin project- ing above the foliage which clothed the peak of a high and very steep hill. This ruin consisted of merely a couple of crumbling mas... ... steeples, with here and there a bit of ancient embattled wall bending itself over the ridges, worm-fashion, and here and there an old square tower of... ... day by it. Between the curving line of hotels and the lake is a broad avenue with lamps and a double rank of low shade trees. The lake-front is walle... ... I noticed that upon these occasions the rider, whether male or female, looked tolerably unwell. There was one place where an eighteen-inch breadth of... ...re was a very sharp turn here, a panel of fencing had been set up there at some time, as a protection. This panel was old and gray and feeble, and the... ...light masonry had been loosened by recent rains. A young American girl came along on a mule, and in making the turn the mule’s hind foot caved all the... ...cky debris. The road had been swept away, too. In another place, where the road was high up on the mountain’s face, and its outside edge protected by ... ...down there. They take exceedingly good care of their rivers in Switzer- land and other portions of Europe. They wall up both banks with slanting solid...

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...of plush I hear the level bee: A jar across the flowers goes, Their velvet masonry Withstands until the sweet assault Their chivalry consumes, While h... ...h sun, Too stiff to bended be, T o joint this agate were a feat Outstaring masonry. How went the agile kernel out— Contusion of the husk, Nor rip, nor...