Sentence examples for of stone up from inspiring English sources

They've found a ramp which they believe was used to pull huge alabaster blocks of stone up the Pyramids using a two-way pulley system.

The tower is laid solely of stone up to the height of 24 m.

Let them try classical stuttering remedies like the Demosthenes cure, with its mouthful of stones, up at the palace.

The early 13th-century curtain wall is mostly of roughly dressed, coursed stone, up to 7 feet thick and 35 feet high, with two sections repaired with ashlar facings.

People often wonder how delicate arches and finely balanced pillars of stone stand up to the stress of holding up their own immense weight.

Then, one of three computer-controlled machines precisely carves the block of stone -- up to 25 tons worth -- much as a sculptor with a chisel and hammer would.

The rallies were mostly peaceful until the early afternoon, when self-styled anarchists broke off from the crowd and attacked the police with firebombs and chunks of stone torn up from sidewalks.

"If you look at every corner, there are still the two steps of stone leading up to the entrance," said Arnold Mok, who opened the restaurant with his sister, Karen Mok, a classically trained chef.

MORE than 150 years after they were first set in place, blocks of stone weighing up to a ton each were maneuvered back into their numbered spots as restoration continued on the locks and a stretch of canal and towpath of the Delaware and Raritan Canal near Boyd Park in New Brunswick.

Orkney is an extraordinary place full of ancient delights – St Magnus Cathedral, stone circles in varying degrees of intactness (one farmer in the 1850s got fed up with the one on his land and blew several of the stones up with dynamite), and a tomb covered in Viking graffiti.

It has since been found that most non-calcium oxalate stone formers make stones by tubular crystallization and do not have LPHS; although most stone formers do not have LPHS, many patients with LPHS have a history of kidney stones (up to 50%) [ 2, 20].