It was a scaffold of lichens and other organisms.
In the old days, this spectacle took place live, on the scaffold of the pillory.
But Marie Antoinette seemed to discover her grand destiny on the scaffold of the guillotine.
Over the scaffold of Dickens's immortal story, the creators have constructed a light entertainment aimed principally at eye and ear.
Frequently, as laborious exposition alternates with frenetic action sequences, "Van Helsing" feels like an especially lavish episode of "Scooby-Doo" mounted on a scaffold of baroque supernaturalism.
His "Drawing Water," a perfect pun, is a 100-foot-long green hose supported by a meandering scaffold of pine sticks and ends in a sprinkler.
With any more fat or sugar the delicate scaffold of egg and flour collapses, making a dense, heavy cake (like a fruit cake).
The passage is a key with which to unlock at least part of the story, but Aickman dispenses almost entirely with the scaffold of exposition.
Physical guidance cues are involved in contact guidance, or the migration of immature neurons along a scaffold of glial fibres.
He was drawn to the entanglements of the text and its rational mysteries rather than some scaffold of theory.
Voids in the structure and complex shapes are supported by printing a "scaffold" of water-soluble material.
