Sentence examples for heavy blocks from inspiring English sources

And so a farm boy grounded by heavy blocks for shoes soared to the sounds of "The Student Prince" and "Rose Marie".

But here, details like windowsills were precast into larger panels, eliminating the seams needed to fool the eye into believing that the wall was built from heavy blocks.

The effort now involves everything from hand shovels and acetylene torches to hundreds of monstrous machines, including some of the strongest and most precise demolition equipment available in the world, that can lift heavy blocks of concrete or delicately rake through rubble that might contain human remains.

Sources mention the names of some tactical formations such as the hogshead, which apparently consisted of phalanxlike heavy blocks, but movement may have been carried out in smaller units, or Rotte, Germanic formations and tactics must have been effective, for in the end they overcame or rather superseded the Roman legions; how it was done, though, simply is not known.

At that time, they were used to move heavy blocks of building stone in Paris, with six to eight horses drawing blocks of several tons.

On 25 May, as Aurora drifted towards the Victoria Land coast, Stenhouse described a scene "like a graveyard", with heavy blocks of ice twisted and standing up on end.

When power hammers are used, the anvil is supported on a heavy block, which in turn rests on a strong foundation of timber and masonry or concrete.

In the most revealing note, feverishly scribbled in heavy block letters across four large sheets of onion-skin drafting paper, Fuller confessed that he had suffered a "nervous breakdown" in 1931 — not 1927 — because of the romantic tumult.

At the Rainbow Grill, Ellington doesn't play many of the raindrops but goes all out in rhapsodic style: heavy block chords, cascades, even a long left-hand trill underneath pointillistic right-hand stabs.

Faced with the impossibility of transporting his site-specific murals from Mexico, he had come up with a more practical but less-satisfying alternative: the "portable mural," a heavy block of frescoed plaster with a steel and concrete support.

Turner, however, has always run a vertical offense, which tends to operate out of base personnel and rely on heavy blocking (i.e. keeping at least a tight end or running back in on pass protection).