| 单词 | square block |
| 例句 | They are oddly shaped, each a six-inch square block, much larger than a home computer, and each is connected to its own battery dock. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The streets were as crooked and wayward as country streams, dissecting the city not into square blocks but into convoluted shapes of all sizes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It is a city park the size of a square block. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the light that streamed in a square block from the hole he wrung a small towel from the steaming water and he scrubbed his dark slender body vigorously. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z One of the neighborhoods we drove through was the eight square blocks around Central High School. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Desdemona looked in awe and terror at all the faces filling the windows, all the bodies filling the streets, nearly a half million people squeezed into twenty-five square blocks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We had enough food to feed twenty square blocks. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Division was forming on level ground, down the road—great square blocks of blue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Three square blocks of houses for perfect nuclear families. The secret weapon in Mom’s underground poker party sandwiches 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The ultimate symbol of the hunt for imperial memorabilia was a small square block of white jade supporting the foreparts of two dragons back to back. Reclaiming the Badges of Cultural Identity 2010-10-22T11:30:00Z There are two separate artisanal pickle shops within a square block of my house. Switchel: the new (but really old) apple cider drink hipsters can't get enough of 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Wynwood, located just north of downtown Miami, is filled with hip-looking crowds posing for pictures in front of murals that adorn more than a dozen square blocks, creating a unique outdoor museum. Graffiti artists cover Miami neighborhood, wall-to-wall 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z The installation, “Apoptosis,” also includes some severed stumps and a few wall pieces; one features sawdust glued into clumps and another is a square block of wood, gouged gracefully with a free-swinging rotary saw. In the galleries: From the everyday to the fantastic 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z That all ended with a pogrom that began on May 31 and ceased, officially, on June 1, leaving an estimated 300 people dead, and destroying 35 square blocks, 1,256 homes and 200 businesses. "The job is not done yet": Black Wall Street documentaries detail the massacre & still seek justice 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z We rested near an abandoned desert village, a few square blocks of empty, one-story concrete buildings and a silent mosque. 4,000 Miles, Seven Countries: An African Adventure on Two Wheels 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Over two square blocks, CityCenter offers 30 stores and nine eateries, a pedestrian alley, fountains, a courtyard with a permanent video installation and an outdoor plaza. D.C. got everything it wanted out of CityCenterDC — except the crowds 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Two women are said to be “so oppressively hip there are about four square blocks in the world where they can exist.” Review: ‘Prodigals’ by Greg Jackson Skewers the Elite 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Many a square block around the convention center is covered with random fandom — people adorned with the paraphernalia of whatever happens to move them. Action is Off-Site at Comic-Con 2010-07-22T22:36:00Z Sand or decomposed granite from each building site was combined with Portland cement, pressed into square blocks and stamped by hand with a pre-Columbian pattern. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The hotel occupies a full square block, hence all the different street addresses. Soup Shop, From Owners of Hanoi House, Opens in East Village 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The addictively simple puzzle game features seven uniquely shaped pieces, each composed of four square blocks. Why Tetris Consumed Your Brain 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Within these few square blocks, the Ottoman rulers commissioned grandiose palaces and other buildings that proclaimed the durability of their empire. Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul 2014-01-31T18:45:16Z The small town center is entirely committed — several square blocks of signs in gothic fonts bearing names like “Das Sweet Shoppe.” Leavenworth it? Assessing 2 new spots in the Pacific Northwest’s little Bavaria 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The crisis in the background of this two-character play, directed with unflagging concentration by Michael Michetti, is an incident in Times Square that “irradiated” two square blocks and allowed Trump to impose martial law. Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Thirty-five square blocks of homes, churches and schools — along with a storied business district known as Black Wall Street — had been systematically torched and reduced to ash. Behind the Jim Crow Curtain 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z He then stuffed me to within a crumb of my life on a three-course, three-restaurant crawl, all on the same square block. Frugal Traveler: $100 Weekend in Istanbul 2011-07-06T15:13:09Z Vacant storefronts still blemish some of the historic district’s 40 square blocks, but thanks to plucky restaurateurs, gallery owners and shopkeepers, there’s a scent of promise mingling with the magnolias. Surfacing: ?Harlem of South? Revived in Richmond, Va. 2011-10-28T18:55:22Z Honolulu’s Chinatown centers on 12 square blocks around the intersection of Nu`uanu Avenue and North Hotel Street, about five blocks northwest of the State Capitol grounds. Honolulu’s Chinatown has been revived with a focus on arts, dining and shopping 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Today it covers nine square blocks in downtown Brussels and stands as a crumbling monument to Belgium’s notorious bureaucracy. Can He Fix ‘Palace of Scaffolding’ in Time for Belgium’s 200th Birthday? 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The flat, square block of brownish sandstone has carved scribbles, which may be the earliest example of words recorded in writing in Scandinavia, the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo said. Norway archaeologists find ‘world’s oldest runestone’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The encampment, known as Camp Hope, covers several square blocks where more than 400 people live in tents. Inslee touts new housing program for Spokane’s homeless 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z When I visited the largest, Feria de Tristán Narvaja, which takes up several square blocks every Sunday, shoppers described it to me as the economic heart of the city. What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Why does my postcode show a square block? Check your postcode: Is your area vulnerable to extreme heat? 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Much of the early history of Bermuda happened in roughly eight square blocks in downtown St. George’s at the far northeast tip of the island. Bermuda trail brings island’s Black heritage to the fore 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Police had closed streets around at least four square blocks of office and apartment buildings in response to the gunfire. Atlanta woman and killer dead following luxury apartment shooting 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Thirty-five square blocks were burned and more than 10,000 Black people were left without homes. Tulsa Race Massacre survivors ask Justice Department to intervene in the search for mass graves 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z In 1921 a white mob rampaged through the Black Tulsa neighborhood of Greenwood, killing scores and destroying 25 square blocks of businesses and homes. Biden honors victims of Tulsa Race Massacre at centennial event 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z As many as 300 people were killed, 10,000 were left homeless and 35 square blocks of Greenwood, one of the country’s most prosperous Black communities, were destroyed. His arrest sparked the Tulsa Race Massacre. Then Dick Rowland disappeared. 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Archer, Cincinnati, Frankfort, Detroit, Elgin, street after street, avenue after avenue of Black businesses and homes — 35 square blocks in all — had been burned down. 100 Years After the Tulsa Massacre, What Does Justice Look Like? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Thirty-five square blocks were reduced to cinders and ashes. Perspective | The Tulsa race massacre is finally becoming known. But where are the bodies? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Thirty-five square blocks were torched and damages spiraled into the millions. 100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, Black mistrust remains 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z After more than 48 hours of carnage, 35 square blocks of Greenwood were destroyed. One of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — 107 years old — wants justice 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z In this compact neighborhood of 50 square blocks, it was enough, in theory, to kill 2.7 million people. San Francisco Contends With a Different Sort of Epidemic: Drug Deaths 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z He traveled the world as a photographer during World War II, and also traveled the same square blocks in Oxford, Pa., an infinite number of times as a bus driver. Air Forces, father, husband: Man reflects on his 100 years 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z He spent his career in the 2nd District, his latest beat roughly 40 square blocks east of the White House. Two officers who helped fight the Capitol mob died by suicide. Many more are hurting. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z When people gathered to protest World Bank or International Monetary Fund meetings, law enforcement sometimes shut down as much as 20 square blocks of downtown to lower the risk. Opinion | Insurrection at the Capitol 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Within all 74 square blocks of this predominantly Black neighborhood, there are 109 places to buy liquor and no grocery stores, DeWitt said. Volunteers working harder as COVID heightens need for food 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z "If you look at Portland, it's two square blocks!" Maher knocks media's defense of looting, rioting: 'I'm not down' with that 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z But if the intent was to intimidate the protesters into abandoning the few square blocks of downtown Portland under their control, it backfired spectacularly. Federal agents retreat to Portland base as protesters control streets 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Historians believe that as many as 300 black people were killed, and 40 square blocks of what was known as Black Wall Street were destroyed by fire. A century after a race massacre, Tulsa finally digs for suspected mass graves 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Not far away, in the prosperous black district of Greenwood, white vigilantes systematically torched nearly 40 square blocks. Opinion | The Burning of Black Wall Street, Revisited 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Others hung signs calling for reparations for the massacre at Greenwood, when white mobs killed more than 300 black people, burned homes and businesses, and left the 40 square blocks of the community smoldering. Black leaders in Tulsa rush to cover up Black Wall Street memorials before planned tour by Pence 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z The 35 square blocks destroyed by fire during the violence were a part of the wealthiest black community at the time. Trail Blazers' C.J. McCollum upset over Trump's rally venue, date 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z By the end of the day, more than four dozen fires had been set over 130 square blocks of the urban core. 1970 riot propelled Augusta into civil rights era 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z But the Bronx’s Little Italy, encompassing about 40 square blocks, has thrived partly because of its influx of new ethnically diverse immigrants, not in spite of them. How Little Italy Became Little Albanian-Mexican Italy 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z The mob, “some of them government agents,” destroyed 35 square blocks of Greenwood, according to the 2001 report. In Tulsa, an investigation finds possible evidence of mass graves from 1921 race massacre 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Property owners within the district’s 30 square blocks helped fund the program as the neighborhood continues to be plagued by a large homeless population, San Francisco’s KPIX-TV reported. San Francisco neighborhood funds program to power wash feces off the sidewalks 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z He is warned that he will lose it all — that you are not supposed to make a film that appeals only to the five square blocks of people you know. 'Dolemite' is funny and wild. It also sends a very real — and current — message 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z In 2005, an underground equipment failure in the city’s financial district led to an explosion that burned a woman, set fire to a Polo Ralph Lauren store and forced several square blocks to close. PG&E helped fund the careers of Calif. governor and his wife. Now he accuses the utility of ‘corporate greed.’ 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Fire officials said as of Wednesday evening only a few square blocks to the west of Interstate 405 remain under mandatory evacuation orders. The Latest: Firefighters slow growth of blaze near LA 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The Saturday night blackout darkened more than 40 square blocks of Manhattan, including Times Square. NYC mayor, running for president, on defense after blackout 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Everything was small there, the houses squeezed together on little square blocks bounded by narrow streets, as if there weren’t miles of open land, farmland, and woods all around. “Uncle Jim Called” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The activity stretches from Shaw to Dupont Circle, centered roughly in the dozen square blocks bounded by 11th and 13th and K and O streets. FBI targets prostitution bosses in D.C.’s Logan, Thomas circles, a busy zone called ‘the Blade’ 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The police locked down six square blocks around the scene for six days. The Tragedy of Baltimore 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Some people were burned alive, and 40 square blocks of business and residential property — valued then at more than $1 million — were destroyed. Olivia Hooker, one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 103 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The result would be a pedestrian-only area of about six square blocks encompassing the Capitol, the Wyoming Supreme Court and other state buildings. Pedestrian mall considered near state Capitol in Cheyenne 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The reported 2017 incidents occurred within an eight square block area near the York Neighborhood and Laurel Park, according to the department. Bellingham police seek identity of voyeurism suspect 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The East Village Arts District encompasses 12-or-so square blocks of cool independent galleries, clubs, bars, vintage stores and eateries, plus ocean breezes and minus L.A.-size traffic jams and crowds. 3 Quick Escapes from Los Angeles 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z That’s what this whole enterprise is about: that emotion pouring through those six or 10 or 20 square blocks Thursday night. Perspective | So this is what it feels like 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “I would ask him ‘Can you put the square block in the square hole?’” she says. UNO student tackles bucket list with 6 months to live 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z In the meantime, Anderson has become a high priest of sorts among his fellow "Quarter Rats" — the faithful denizens of the district who see no need to travel outside its 78 square blocks. Harry Anderson: Bringing magic to the Big Easy But the 12 square blocks secured for Pence’s visit remained largely empty with only 20 minutes left before access was to close for Pence’s arrival Saturday morning. Pence joins Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day parade 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z Authorities secured a dozen square blocks of downtown Savannah for Pence’s visit. Greening the Veep: Pence heading South for St. Patrick’s Day 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The nine square blocks around the dorms will be evacuated Friday morning. University of Nebraska-Lincoln to demolish 2 dorms 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Only a few curious local residents and the odd media crew stop by a cordoned-off square block that not long ago featured hordes of media and rows of satellite broadcast trucks. Mexico City prosecutors open criminal probes into buildings damaged in the deadly earthquake 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Eleven people were shot in 13 days in an area of just a few square blocks. Man killed in Congress Heights had been targeted in earlier shootings 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Within the city, the army maintains that the militants have been pinned down to a few square blocks. In City of Ruins, Philippines’ Battle Against ISIS Rages On 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z In that sense, it’s an impressively harrowing, immersive film made with few resources aside from two compelling leads, the real backdrop of a few square blocks of Bushwick, and careful sound editing. Bushwick’s co-directors discuss bringing war to Brooklyn during a summer of American violence 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z With hundreds of businesses in about 10 square blocks, there’s an urban density and energy that I haven’t yet felt elsewhere in Milwaukee. You’re going where? Milwaukee 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z "Unlike in Vancouver, where the vast majority of overdoses are centralised in five square blocks, in other communities they are spread out," he says. The Canadian city where addicts are allowed to inject - BBC News 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The fires that began Sunday in one corner of the city quickly spread across 100 square blocks of Detroit. What Detroit Firefighters Saw During the 1967 Riot 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The police recorded at least 147 felony crimes in the four square blocks around East 183rd and Morris in the last year and a half, including 55 assaults. An Officer’s Death in ‘One Square Mile of Danger’ 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z The city council approved a plan last month to buy four square blocks in downtown and build a $30 million stadium, envisioning it as a catalyst for other projects. High Point University president to lead city’s growth plans 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z This was a proper back four too, a square block of grizzled, shaven, tattooed, gnarly old Sky Blue capos. Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City hark back to Pellegrini era for bruising derby | Barney Ronay 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z LAX is finally preparing to develop a rental car facility, parking areas and a transportation hub in the 20 square blocks of Manchester Square as part of its modernization plan. Huge homeless camp stands in way of key LAX modernization project 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It will cover three square blocks and include more than 40 spaces for retail outlets, offices and restaurants. A Waking Giant or a Monster? Developers Eye Once-Sleepy Napa 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z D.C. will transform into a security fortress, with 28,000 security officials over 100 square blocks. Here’s what you need to know about attending the inauguration 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Now, they say, it holds one square block. In Libya, United States lays plans to hunt down escaped Islamic State fighters 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Covering three square blocks, it will bridge a divide in the city and restore Pierre L’Enfant’s original street plan for the nation’s capital. A Project Mends a Gash in the Street Grid of Washington 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z They argue the 9 ½ Block Strategy, named for the number of square blocks in the target zone, reduced narcotics activity in that area while it increased elsewhere. Did Seattle’s downtown drug crackdown push crimes elsewhere? 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z The rules call for, “when and where feasible,” one reserved space on every square block, or 4 percent of the spaces in the city center. After persistent fraud, District is readying reform of disabled parking 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Frenchwomen swear by the crude square blocks, which they use as a natural skin cleanser and, in a pinch, as anything from a toothpaste substitute to a moth repellent. In France, a Recipe Squabble over Marseille Soap 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The raids were just one reverberation from the localized public health emergency, which unfolded in several square blocks around an intersection on the border of the Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick neighborhoods. Police Raid 5 Brooklyn Bodegas After Suspected K2 Overdoses 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Tensions were still high Saturday in Dallas, where 20 square blocks of downtown remained cordoned off as a crime scene. Dallas gunman learned tactics at Texas self-defense school 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Its cement fortress occupies four square blocks, with metal detectors and security guards at the entrance and inside, employees wearing boots in hot weather to keep mice from their ankles. For Detroit’s Children, More School Choice but Not Better Schools 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “It’s important to remember, North Camden is just nine square blocks,” Morton said. Baseball documentary examines change in Camden 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Across from the Younkers site, EMC Insurance operates in a campus that fills a square block, and it is now building a $22.7 million office building there. A Fire-Ravaged Des Moines Landmark May Rise From Its Ashes 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Mercado Oriental was born more than 70 years ago, fewer than four square blocks. Seeking bargains, and hope, at the market swallowing Nicaragua's capital bit by bit 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Square One Dining on Hyperion in Silver Lake features retro-style square blocks inside. See how Midcentury 'breeze blocks' are being used in contemporary L.A. restaurant design 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z At one point, the line stretched around three sides of a square block. Rubio wins D.C. Republican primary; edges out Kasich 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Fitting an entire city into a few square blocks of Las Vegas has its challenges. LARK GOULD: 10 best travel gadgets from CES 2016 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Moses wielded his power to condemn six square blocks of this remarkable neighbourhood, containing 338 apartment buildings and 3,628 families. The real-life 'negro removals' behind HBO mini-series Show Me a Hero 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Upscale coffee shops and restaurants now compete for space with homeless shelters and flophouses on the area's 50 square blocks. Los Angeles officials to declare state of emergency, propose $100M to reduce homelessness 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Promise Neighborhoods are modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone, Geoffrey Canada’s widely publicized effort to saturate 97 square blocks of New York with support from infancy through adulthood. School choice complicates Promise Neighborhood’s efforts to help kids 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z In the middle of the area is a body of water the size of a few square blocks where many residents keep boats. Whale appears in docks of exclusive neighborhood in Argentina's capital while hundreds look on 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The model is rough, essentially a square block with a roof and horizontal lines, vaguely reminiscent of those on the nearly 150-year-old cabin. Artist developing computer game focused on exploration 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z When the image appeared on a large computer screen, he zoomed in on the Bluetooth antenna, which looked like a dark, square block. Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age? 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z A half-million-tonne square block of metal and concrete with sheer red sides. How Greenpeace took on Russian oil giant Gazprom in the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z This year’s festival, in April, took up 24 square blocks of Jacksonville and lasted six days and more than 300,000 people attended. The Crowdfunding Festival That's Creating A Startup City 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Skid Row is roughly 50 square blocks of liquor stores, warehouses, charitable missions and a few modest businesses. Area of police shooting long a haven for the destitute 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The article added that “virtually the entire New York movement” lived within a few square blocks. Searching for Answers in the 1961 Death of an Ayn Rand Follower 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The pantry, which serves about 700 people living in 32 square blocks of East Garfield Park each month, is run primarily by neighborhood volunteers. Church gives congregants $500 each to do good 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The June 19 explosion left debris on surrounding trees and rooftops across two square blocks in the northern Denver suburb. Police rule Thornton house explosion a suicide 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Near the center of the Gateway project are four square blocks along East Seventh Avenue and State and College Streets that form a new entertainment and office district. A University’s Partnership Reshapes Bowling Green, Ky. 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z It’s spilled over, and this square block right now is referred to as the Madison Block, and there are 70 tech start-ups within this one square block and growing by the day. Centers of innovation? Here’s one vote for Detroit. It would ban vehicles from more than a dozen square blocks where they’re now allowed and extend from the Capitol north to Union Station and east to Second Street. U.S. Capitol’s former top cop Terry Gainer says complex should expand, bar vehicles But now, scaffolding surrounds the base of the sign, which perches on the roof of a brick building that sprawls across two square blocks near the Gowanus Canal. Permit Shows Brooklyn’s Kentile Floors Sign is Set for Removal 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z This $4.5 billion, 5-acre complex to be completed by 2018 features five buildings - three of them high-rises - covering an entire square block between Ninth and Tenth avenues, and 31st to 33rd streets. Construction projects aim to transform New York 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The researchers chose an area of 94 square kilometers around the hives that included urban, agricultural and protected areas, and divided that area into 60 square blocks. If You’re Looking for a Healthy Environment, Follow the Dancing Bee 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Mesh allows users in a local area, from a few square blocks to an entire city, to create a network that is physically distinct from the Internet. U.S. Promotes Network to Foil Digital Spying 2014-04-21T02:49:11Z The adjacent districts straddle Broadway and span roughly 35 square blocks from Eighth Street to 25th Street. Square Feet: Another City by the Bay Comes Into Its Own 2013-12-25T01:46:42Z It was, in short, 20 square blocks that fit right in to the rest of Buffalo. Square Feet: Once Just a Punch Line, Buffalo Fights Back 2013-07-31T02:36:26Z Finnish Tango: The Passion and the Melancholy SEINAJOKI, Finland — Every July, this modest Finnish town, population 59,000, transforms several square blocks downtown into a vast dance hall. Seinajoki Journal: Finnish Tango: The Passion and the Melancholy 2013-07-16T00:34:56Z Its 45 square blocks are home to the headquarters of Groupon, the Chicago offices of Google and several hundred technology start-ups. Merchandise Mart in Chicago Attracts Tech Start-Ups 2012-09-26T01:53:08Z The company’s Windows 8 interface, is a replica of the Windows Phone 7 system with beautifully designed square blocks that are much easier to navigate than the “Start” menu. Bits Blog: Desktop Computers Look More and More Like Smartphones 2012-06-13T22:28:00Z Parallel streets crossed other streets, and divided the city into square blocks. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z It is built," he says, "of Parian marble; the square blocks fit closely to each other without any cement. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Just hours before the deadline early on Monday morning, plastic tarpaulins still blanketed the square block area of McPherson Square. Deadline nears for "Occupy" camp near White House 2012-01-30T14:17:57Z One of them had been solidly constructed of square blocks of sawn coral rock by coloured volunteers, who had built it at night after their ordinary working hours were over. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z The Hood Starz controlled the western part of those square blocks, and the Waves controlled the eastern parts. 43 in Warring Brooklyn Gangs Are Indicted 2012-01-20T04:25:05Z They form a square block four storeys high and carry a domed turret at each end of the western fa�ade, from the centre of which rises a massive tower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Together they occupy an almost square block of country, 710 some 400 m. broad, reaching from near Agra and Delhi on the river Jumna to the Arabian Sea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Previously a square block of territory to the north of 8� N. had been regarded as neutral, both by Britain and Germany. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Intense and reclusive, Mr. Toomey is not well known outside of a few square blocks around the Texas Capitol. Mike Toomey, Texas Lobbyist, Is Power Behind Perry 2011-10-15T02:25:51Z The great square block of yellow stone in the Piazza Marina, the Palazzo Chiaramonte, served as the palace of the Spanish Viceroys and headquarters of the Inquisition. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z It contains perhaps two hundred acres, covered with large square blocks of granite that seem to have come from the surrounding walls. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z Why leave Little Italy — all two square blocks of it? City Room: Charlton St. Slips Quietly Off N.Y. Subway Map 2011-10-10T15:44:19Z The bark of old trees is almost black and separated into thick nearly square blocks, much like the black gum. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z A cathedral stood opposite the café; and narrow, dark streets, radiating from the plaza, pierced the square blocks of houses. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Leonidas admired the great walls built of square blocks of stone laid one upon another without mortar and fitted so exactly that the joints would scarcely be seen. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Through this window the moonlight fell like a square block of marble, barred with shadows. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z As a precaution, a square block was sealed off and dozens of people were evacuated from a handful of businesses on nearby Rodeo Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard. Dozens evacuated when suspicious briefcase left at Beverly Hills building by man seeking agent 2011-08-11T18:37:25Z The altar of Apollo, at Athens, was a square block, or cube, and to double it, required the duplication of the cube. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Ninety-eight establishments held liquor licenses in a quaint central business district of 21 square blocks. A City?s Wrenching Budget Choices 2011-07-05T02:53:57Z Fortunately most of the action is contained in a few square blocks of Athens. Greece strikes: Your views 2011-06-28T14:25:43Z The iron-coloured shadows lay in square blocks in the middle of the streets, according to the profile of the houses. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z What the owners did was legal, and in the microcosm of a few square blocks of Manhattan, it tells a story of the nation’s real estate bubble and collapse. In Harlem Buildings, Reminders of Easy Money and the Financial Crisis 2011-06-10T02:28:18Z Some hot skirmishing took place in and out among the trees of Pishobury, and finally the Germans were driven to earth in the big square block of the red-brick mansion itself. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z After this came three legs of boiled mutton and a square block of roast beef. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z One was a square block of a man, with long arms and a pair of bushy brows which thatched perpetually smiling eyes. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Each township is subdivided into 36 square blocks or sections one mile square and containing 640 acres and numbered from one to thirty-six. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z De arbor was as big as a square block here in town, but dey was so many of us dat we filled it up pretty quick. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z The African Union’s official mission is to protect Somalia’s weak transitional government, which is confined to a few square blocks of a country nearly as big as Texas. African Peacekeepers Attack Somali Insurgent Trenches 2011-02-20T17:10:50Z The Germans were in solid square blocks, standing out sharply against the skyline," wrote Sergeant Loftus, "and you couldn't help hitting them. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z We also noticed a relief larger than life, on a square block of white marble, of the head of Medusa. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Each map is of one township, consisting of a square block of thirty-six sections of a square mile or six hundred and forty acres each. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The court is paved with square blocks of white marble. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Then he fumbled the wall with his fingers, and presently found a square block of stone, saying: "The keyhole is within." The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z It was originally developed as the headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and occupies an entire square block between Eighth and Ninth avenues and 15th and 16th Streets. Google buys huge NYC building for about $1.8 billion 2010-12-03T22:04:00Z He was the first to show that along the entrance-wall the fine building with square blocks was only a facing laid on irregular building with small stones. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Arson was costing 10 square blocks, or about 5,000 units of housing, every year. In Remembering Steinbrenner, It?s Often Just Business 2010-07-13T18:51:00Z In these roughly eight square blocks of Brownsville, the arrest rate is less than 1 percent. Over 4 Years, Nearly 52,000 Police Stops in a Few Brooklyn Blocks 2010-07-12T02:48:00Z If a murder occurred in a child's neighborhood -- an area of roughly six to 10 square blocks as denoted by the U.S. Murder rates affect IQ tests scores: study 2010-06-14T21:33:00Z During the height of the scare, police cordoned off several square blocks between Union Square east and Irving Place, witnesses said. Vehicle scare in New York ends; no bomb found 2010-05-14T06:14:00Z We found the platform nearly complete, built with great square blocks of poros-stone, and in some places very high, though in others scarcely raised at all, according to the requirements of the ground. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Within a single square block there is a W Hotel, a Brooks Brothers, a shop that specializes in imported European shoes and a World of Wine store. In Capital of Chile, Damage Is Inside and Often Invisible 2010-03-09T04:20:00Z He is seated, presumably, on a throne, which much resembles a square block of marble, looked at perspectively. Cathedral Cities of England The illustration shows a square block with the hole bored in the side. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps At one of the angles of the place there was a square block of stone, on which the bridegroom took up his position, the guests ranging themselves in good order about fifty paces away. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Rude square blocks of stone in place of capitals and bases. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance A few steps back of this, on two square blocks of stone, stood a statue of the Virgin and Child, of white stone very carefully wrought, but without much art. The Progressionists, and Angela. He could not have put two square blocks together if one of these blocks had to do with the interest of another but himself. The Broken Gate A Novel Everything is on the grand scale, once the city’s square blocks of barracky houses are left behind. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 Nearly all the square blocks show artistic thought and skill, and really illustrate the poem. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 We see that the church is built of stone, set in square blocks. Tuscan Sculpture of the Fifteenth Century A Collection of Sixteen Pictures Reproducing Works by Donatello, the Della Robia, Mino da Fiesole, and Others, with Introduction These pillars, however, were but six feet high, rude and unpolished, with square blocks of stone for capitals and pedestals. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. Our guide stoops down, touches a secret spring, and lifts up a square block of the pavement. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History We did, and there was the square block of ice neatly open, leaving the shape of the Scotch sailor perfect, even to the place where his long, thin nose had been. Seven Frozen Sailors Vague stirrings of cold light rippled the surface of the square block of tri-matter. Cube Root of Conquest Yet, although they searched around and examined the ground for a square block, they could find nothing to which it could be attributed. The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin In England Inigo Jones introduced similar features, but with square blocks sometimes rusticated, a custom lately revived in England, but of which there are few examples either in Italy or Spain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" He therefore cut a square block out of the step, and underneath it, sure enough, found the remains of a fine Purbeck slab. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Jutting from one bank of the stream, which washed its base, was a huge, square block covered with dark-green moss. Cudjo's Cave It was a square block of a design somewhat freakish for a country residence, since the principal storey was above the entrance floor. The Deaves Affair We may add that the brick is the foundation form of the gift, and that we gain the remaining two forms, the square block and pillar, by dividing it in exactly opposite directions. Froebel's Gifts A monument to the generals stands near here, in the Castle gardens, with the names on opposite sides of the square block. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement In the vicinity of the Chicago University buildings he owns square block after block of valuable land. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times Have a square block of ice in the bowl. Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions The dwelling house is a large, square block, with a courtyard in the middle and a tower at each angle. Memoirs of Life and Literature Suppose, then, instead of taking so much trouble with the member Yb, we save time and labor, and leave it a 79 square block. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) And–yes, there just beyond the river was a town–which McGee concluded must be Fere-en-Tardenois–and a little way from its outskirts a group of drab square blocks that caught and held his eyes. Aces Up Children should measure and decide how much to saw off from strip of 2 × 2 in order to make a square block or cube for the seat. Primary Handwork The head was a huge square block with a serpent's face and long, curling, tape-measure tongue. The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island It is built on the plan of all American towns, in square blocks, so that the streets, which are wide, all run at right angles to each other. The Truth About America After sawing off several square blocks, Henry set to work with his hatchet to cleave them into pieces fit for the stove. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The township of Tenterfield, like all new Australian towns, is laid out in square blocks, with corrugated iron houses, and various places of worship for different denominations. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' The capitals, however, are different, having an eight-sided bell on which rests a square block with a bud carved at each angle, and above an abacus, moulded all round. Portuguese Architecture There was a square block of bread at the side of each pewter plate, a tin cup of cold water, and very soon a ladle-full of the steaming bean-soup was dealt round to each. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 As I have said, all their cities and towns are laid out in square blocks, the streets running between, and thus always at right angles to one another. The Truth About America The buildings were just square blocks, like neat rows of neat boxes. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 Sydney Harbour The township of Shepparton, like all Australian settlements, is arranged in square blocks, the houses consisting chiefly of four- or six-roomed cottages of one story, built of wood or corrugated iron. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' The bases too are all carved, some with animals' heads and some with small seated figures at the angles, while the faces of the square blocks below are covered with beautiful leaf ornament. Portuguese Architecture Walker, you go to all the news-stands within three square blocks and also any stores you may see that sell newspapers and buy up any Wochen-Blatts they have. Ted Marsh on an Important Mission Coal dust, mixed with earth, and formed into square blocks, is frequently used to heat their little stoves, on which they boil their rice. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton Ten blocks away he came to a building roofing four square blocks. Empire On a lofty cliff above the gorge from which the Kofn issues to curve round the Palace gardens, and exposed to the four winds of heaven, stands an imposing square block of grey buildings. A Modern Mercenary It is cut on a square block of marble, upon each side of which three months are registered in perpendicular columns, each headed by the proper sign of the zodiac. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life An hour’s walk up this valley is to be seen the little square block of Amenhotep III’s temple, the great isolated rock of the graffiti, and, rather nearer, the small temple of Rameses. El Kab Mrs. Gray, with accustomed feet, led the way straight across the glade to where an old cedar-tree stood commanding the oceanward view, with a square block of stone at its foot. A Little Country Girl The bodies of these queer creatures were square blocks of a metal closely resembling steel, while for appendages, the metal cube was upheld by four jointed legs capable of movement. The Jameson Satellite The foundation of the piers is composed of square blocks of stone, the piers themselves are of brick, and the parapet of cemented stone work. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests We found two square blocks of hewn stone imbedded in the earth in an upright position, some fifteen feet apart, and ranging exactly east and west. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology The committee has a completed directory of the fifty square blocks in the district, and so perfect was the system that there is no duplicating and wrangling. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Prior to September 15th, 1908, this city had what is commonly known as a "red-light district" covering an area of about three square blocks. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade The suprême is thus served incrusted in a square block of thick jelly; the dish is decorated with greens. American Cookery November, 1921 Two long square blocks of timber, resting diagonally with their heads to the cleats. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Passing amid quarries, we observed enormous square blocks of stone hewn out and ready to be transported to the shore by carts, with long teams of horses harnessed—often nine together. A Yacht Voyage Round England It’s not like Manhattan, which runs pretty regularly north and south, with decent square blocks. It’s like this, cat He was seated on a square block of wood, near the fire, eating some bread and cheese. Forests of Maine Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge Where the Pelouse enters the Snake River, are immense ledges of square blocks. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California As soon as the ice in the river is of sufficient thickness, it is cut with saws into square blocks, of a uniform size, with which the floor of the pit is regularly paved. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America There is more culture to the square block there than in Boston; actual culture. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Sometimes they were simply square blocks of wood whittled out by hand. Customs and Fashions in Old New England This monument and tomb had been erected some years before; it was made of square blocks of solid stone, and was the stoutest building in Alexandria. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The most ancient of these representations consisted of square blocks of stone, upon which the name of the deity intended to be represented was engraved. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Under this system settlers had to hold their farms in square blocks of 160 acres or more, and in consequence such settlers would be necessarily some distance apart. Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police By beating Minie-balls out flat, then cutting the plates into square blocks or slugs, I prepared my ammunition, and in the first eleven shots killed nine quail on the wing. The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson The walls, which were perpendicular, were composed of about thirty large square blocks, cemented together with snow, and arranged in the form of an octagon. Ungava “I am told by the Professor,” said Slingsby, “that when the ice cracks across, and afterwards lengthwise, the square blocks thus formed get detached as they descend the valley, and assume these fantastic forms.” Rivers of Ice He was therefore condemned to be buried alive in one of the huge square blocks of concrete with which the walls of a part of the fortifications were being strengthened. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale The stones are to be laid in square blocks, regular courses and rock-face in the body of the building, with square and sharp corners. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 The stones used for this building are of dark gray marble, cut into gigantic square blocks, and in many cases exquisitely polished. Modern Persia They might as well say that they prefer square, plain, unornamented houses made from square blocks of stone. Pushing to the Front The village consisted of some dozen cottages or so, roughly built of square blocks of hewn stone dovetailed into each other, without mortar, and thatched with tussock-grass. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes In many instances, the great square block of older days received this fantastic French termination at a later time—as, for instance, the famous castle of Glammis, in Strathmore. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 In Newport there were already under water nearly one hundred and twenty square blocks, located in the section along the south bank of the Ohio River. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Caxton used only one device, a simple square block with his initials W. C. cut upon it, and certain hieroglyphics said to stand for the figures 74, with a border at the top and bottom. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 The low dropping moon made a square block of light on the uncarpeted floor; outside, the orchard waited for the dawn, and the fields brimmed life up to their very doors. The Lovely Lady The font before us is a nearly square block of marble supported on a solid central column ornamented with horizontal mouldings, with four disengaged pillars of lesser diameter, with "cable" mouldings, at each corner. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The same method will apply to drawing steps, square blocks, &c., as shown in Fig. The Theory and Practice of Perspective A lane of fifteen or twenty feet was cut through the stone, and the material was carted away in heavy square blocks. Recollections of Europe The houses in Ajaccio, as well as those throughout the island, are generally built in large square blocks of from 3 to 5 stories, each story forming a separate dwelling. Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads Indian corn meal is the material of the bit of bread, a heavy square block unskilfully made, and so unattractive in appearance that no human being who could get anything else would touch it. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. "Here come two chaps on horseback," Stephen said, looking down at the desert track that trailed near the distant cluster of mud houses, which were like square blocks of gold in the fierce sunshine. The Golden Silence The roof of the house was flat, and paved with square blocks of stone; a parapet three feet high surrounded it. Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower For ten square blocks it was the hide-out and refuge of the underworld of space. The Revolt on Venus The chief element of this character is the circular spot in the right portion, usually bordered by a double line and little square blocks, with the interior generally crosshatched. Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. Presently it drew up before a huge, ugly factory that covered a square block on the upper west side, near the river. The Substitute Prisoner Inside the square was a rough heap of granite, a cairn, gray with lichens, in the centre of which stood, or rather leaned, a tall square block of granite, like a dolmen. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow It is, roughly speaking, a square block of buildings, flanking the sides of a grassy quadrangle. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 These cupels are square blocks, a little less than 2 inches across, and a little more than three quarters of an inch deep. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Broad marginal band in figures arranged in square blocks. Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 It was made of square blocks of calico and white cotton intermingled, and on every white block was written a verse from the Bible or a couplet from one of our best hymns. Choice Readings for the Home Circle “I mean, all this work, and we’ve hardly gotten four or five square blocks covered.” Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Mr. Hume pointed to a square block in the centre of, the room—a block all stained with dark streaks that came from a basin in the centre. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa But at a little distance, on a perfectly kept lawn, there were numerous square blocks of marble, and on these certain extraordinary-appearing persons were seated. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old The houses are built of sun-dried bricks and black basaltic rock, and the streets are beautifully paved with small square blocks of the same rock, giving it a neat and clean appearance. The Women of the Arabs I had always heard that the biggest weight of all was a square block of gold equal to the weight of a full-grown man. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation In this pleasant place stood a square block of a house. Burned Bridges It was my desire to make this square block of forty acres into a first-class apple orchard for profit. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm The supports are rough boulders, the largest masses of stone that could be found or moved; and the copestone is an enormous flat square block, often with cup-shaped hollows carved upon its surface. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood But, as it is, this ancient square block of brick forms our one pre-eminent American ruin. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. The deep foundations, of large square blocks of grey stone, were duly laid; the east end was rounded into an apse; a tower rose in the centre, crowned by a cupola of wood. The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford We passed picturesque little farmhouses, built of square blocks of rough, grey stone covered with ivy. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Even Sancho found something to interest him, and standing on his hind-legs thrust his head between the boys to paw at several red and blue letters on square blocks. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 The particolored rocks jut out in great square blocks, which, in summer, are usually tufted with grass or flowers. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 At length a small square block cut against the dazzling brightness and slowly grew into a lonely homestead. Ranching for Sylvia They make the ice palace with square blocks of ice. Big People and Little People of Other Lands Below we have a square block, bearing on each face a woman's head in high relief and crowned with a naos. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The town was divided up into square or nearly square blocks, of which there were nine counting from east to west and eight from north to south. Ancient Town-Planning Says a Lincolnshire Sergeant: "They were in solid square blocks, and we couldn't help hitting them." New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index For there, thrown in pellmell among small square blocks of polished marble was a complete kit of burglar's tools, including also a mask, a dark lantern, and a blackjack. The Tracer of Lost Persons The front axle is fastened to a square block of wood, which is pivoted to the main board. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do The pedestal was formed of a single square block adorned with inscriptions, or with cynocephali in high relief, adoring the sun. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The beautiful bridge of St. Angelo, constructed entirely of square blocks of stone, leads across the Tiber to the castle of the same name, the tomb of Hadrian. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy It is brought up in square blocks, about nine feet wide, and two feet thick, by means of vertical wheels, placed at the mouths of the pits. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 It was a square block of building some hundreds of yards long, quite foreign in character, having the appearance of factory buildings, or of a barracks or workhouse. Kimono At one end rose a large, square block of red sandstone, on which was carved a round face environed by rays, probably representing the sun. Overland The monument is simple—a square block of granite, surmounted by a helmet and sword, with the inscription: "The hero Moreau fell here by the side of Alexander, August 17th, 1813." Views a-foot All the houses in the streets of Siena have a gloomy appearance; many of them are built like castles, of great square blocks of stone, and furnished with loopholes. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Long, drooping moustaches, the colour of ripe corn, framed with their points the square block of his shaved chin. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale With the way Spook was passionately describing the specific acts and services available within the 10 square block hotbed of sex, Scott knew that the Spook was no novice. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel Disappointed thus far, I next looked attentively at the cross, and at the square block of marble below it, on which the inscription was cut. The Woman in White This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room, surrounded by a broad expanse of beautiful, old-fashioned wood-flooring in square blocks highly polished. The Return of Sherlock Holmes This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room, surrounded by a broad expanse of beautiful, old-fashioned wood-flooring in square blocks, highly polished. The Return of Sherlock Holmes Great square blocks were rolled to the opening, and strongly cemented together. The Mysterious Island There is a square block of a tower, and you can trace the moat and some remains of outworks.' Lord Kilgobbin For a chimney he bores upwards, and then builds round the opening a square block of masonry, out of which the smoke escapes. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The stones are brought by the means of a scow, a very broad flat-bottomed boat, to Belleville, where they are sawn into square blocks, and dressed for doors sills and facings of houses. Life in the Clearings versus the Bush He saw nothing of Rome, nor wanted to: and what he did see at first, in passing, the styleless new districts, the square blocks of buildings, gave him no desire to see more. Jean-Christophe Journey's End The capital is a circular band of stone capped by a square block, all without decoration. Early European History At the door of a tent I saw a large, square block of iron, weighing sixty or eighty pounds, to which was attached a ring. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences The provost told two of his men to pick out a square block of firewood, as nearly as possible the thickness of the height of one of the steps. At Agincourt All the vestibules, corridors and passages are paved with ceramic square blocks brought from Belgium. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present The beds are square blocks of cement, without even a mattress. Olivia in India It was built of concrete faced with square blocks. Early European History The square blocks of many colored marble with which its four sides are coated, produce a richness of effect that is indescribable. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany These were square blocks of masonry without any pretension to splendour. Domestic Manners of the Americans A strip of parched garden, where a few dusty palms grew, ran down to the road, across which the square block of the Metropole cut the shining sea. Lister's Great Adventure “Cut that hole so that this cylinder will fit it exactly,” he says to some masons who are shaping a large square block of stone. The Social Cancer Here's a square block of four twenties—separate leases, all of 'em—and the Nelsons own three. Flowing Gold The heavy square blocks, the rectangular lines, seem the antithesis of life and beauty. The Principles of Aesthetics "Tell me some more;" and he dropped upon a low seat, which was simply a square block of wood in the chimney- corner, while Molly, her face all alight with eagerness, joined the group. Sara, a Princess The house I stayed at was at the corner of one of the square blocks, and from the angle the view extended in four directions along the level roads. The Naturalist in Nicaragua The object in question proved to be nothing more singular than a square block of stone placed under an old chair. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Here tonight is one of those community policemen, a brave, young detective, Kevin Jett, whose beat is eight square blocks in one of the toughest neighborhoods in New York. State of the Union Address The pillar is formed of a huge square block of red rock, planted on the top of a conical mound, perhaps fifty feet in height, whose slopes are covered with broken slabs and boulders. Spinifex and Sand Even Sancho found something to interest him; and, standing on his hind-legs, thrust his head between the boys to paw at several red and blue letters on square blocks. Under the Lilacs Weeds were sprouting between the square blocks of stone that paved it, and in the center a wide circular space, charred and blackened, showed where the German sentries had built their fires. The Firefly of France Owen proceeded to cut up one of the slices of bread into a number of little square blocks. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists They cut right down through the coral, to any depth that is convenient—ten to twenty feet—and take it out in great square blocks. Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion The supply of empty bottles giving out, Mr. Pike was so interested that he had the carpenter saw me a lot of small square blocks of hard wood. The Mutiny of the Elsinore In the meantime, I had fixed my eye on an immense square block of rock, that rested just above the dangerous rapids, and close to the southern shore. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it In Knole Park a mound had been thrown up behind the rifle-targets, which appeared to have been formed of earth originally supported by square blocks of turf. The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits I shall pay each of you one pound per week, and a week's work is--you must each produce three of these square blocks. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Through the centre runs a wide pathway intersected at right angles by other pathways so arranged as to cut the huts into square blocks, each block being the quarters of a company. King Solomon's Mines It is very probable that he seats himself upon the little square block or protuberance which is seen in a corner of the main compartment when the doors are open. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 It was a big square block of a house, approached by a short winding drive, on each side of which was a border of rhododendrons. The Pit Prop Syndicate Like all the villages of this upland plain, Montegnac is built of earth baked in the sun and moulded into square blocks. The Village Rector In fact, a certain flooded town was replaced with a new town planned with square blocks. Our Legal Heritage It is, as he said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes She set it on a square block of stone in front of the graven image, and laid down and walloped her face on the floor a few times, and then took a walk for herself. Options They want more fenders, more breasting-ropes; they want more springs, more shackles, more fetters; they want to make ships with volatile souls as motionless as square blocks of stone. The Mirror of the Sea |
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