741 examples of slabs in sentences

In a glance, I saw that the place was empty, save for the heavy, stone slabs, supported by brick pillars; and I was about to leave it, convinced that I had been mistaken; when, in turning, my light was flashed back from two bright spots outside the window, and high up.

THE TWIN SLABS V. THE PINWHEEL VOLCANO VI. MR.

"It would have run along the slabs in the passage and out again, for the front door is lower than the back.

He came upon a hired hand splitting some sawed hickory slabs to whittle down into skewers.

We soon passed burial grounds in which the graves were headed with crosses, in place of marble slabs, for tombstones.

What is probably his gravestone is one of five Irish-inscribed slabs built into the west gable of the Cathedral.

He had a pair of boots, so unimaginably heavy and thick, with great slabs of iron on the soles, even the straps were fastened with copper nailsit was a marvel that one man could walk in such boots at all.

He was medium sized, sinewy, and grayingsurprisingly light on his feet for someone who installed slabs of ornamental marble.

The plane passed above slabs of cloud and intermittent vistas of empty ocean.

The tops were made from wide slabs that had been left in their natural contours.

[*] Since the foregoing was written the old slabs have been turned round, and the steps been made to look quite new.

Although sawmills try to prevent waste of wood by converting slabs and short pieces into laths and shingles, large amounts of refuse, such as sawdust, slabs and edgings, are burned each season.

Although sawmills try to prevent waste of wood by converting slabs and short pieces into laths and shingles, large amounts of refuse, such as sawdust, slabs and edgings, are burned each season.

But while we have yet lingered, the sun has finished his journey, and hid his bright beams behind the curtain of the west, and already have the shadows of coming twilight gathered around us, and the white marble slabs, dimly seen in its shadows, assume strange, mysterious shapes, and seem almost like moving things of life, while the darker slate are lost to view.

From the inside of this circle the snow was cut by means of a long knife in the form of slabs nearly a foot thick, and from two to three feet long, having a slight convexity on the outside.

These slabs were then so cut and arranged that, when they were piled upon each other round the margin of the circle, they formed a dome-shaped structure like a bee-hive, which was six feet high inside, and remarkably solid.

The slabs were cemented together with loose snow, and every accidental chink or crevice filled up with the same material.

When finished, both ends of the tunnel were closed up with slabs of hard snow, which served the purpose of double doors, and effectually kept out the cold.

SEE Slabs of the sunburnt West.

R59675, 20Mar50, Gaylord Johnson (A) SLABS OF THE SUNBURNT WEST, by Carl Sandburg.

SEE Slabs of the sunburnt West.

R59675, 20Mar50, Gaylord Johnson (A) SLABS OF THE SUNBURNT WEST, by Carl Sandburg.

Clearly he could see the stone slabs cemented with gypsum, the few stricken pigeons lying there, the cords holding the huge kiswah, or brocaded cloth, covering "Mecca's bride," (the Ka'aba).

" The moon shone over its white stone buildings, quietly sleeping in the still hours of the night, as over the white, silent slabs of a country churchyard.

Outside of the S. wall are two slabs with much defaced effigies, probably from an earlier building.

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