At the door he nearly fell over Perry who was curled up on the sandstone slab, hugging his sunburned legs desperately.
This toilette, together with a small, low, green and white chintz arm-chair, a washstand topped with a marble slab, and supplied with utensils of pale-green ware, sufficiently furnished the tiny chamber.
It seemed to me that at this hour there was affection and sorrow in Heaven above for all pain suffered on earth beneath; the weight of my dreadful dream became alleviated—that insufferable thought of being no more loved—no more owned, half-yielded to hope of the contrary—I was sure this hope would shine clearer if I got out from under this house-roof, which was crushing as the slab of a tomb, and went outside the city to a certain quiet hill, a long way distant in the fields.
The ghost must have been built out some ages ago, for there were houses all round now; but certain convent-relics, in the shape of old and huge fruit-trees, yet consecrated the spot; and, at the foot of one—a Methuselah of a pear-tree, dead, all but a few boughs which still faithfully renewed their perfumed snow in spring, and their honey-sweet pendants in autumn—you saw, in scraping away the mossy earth between the half-bared roots, a glimpse of slab, smooth, hard, and black.
Some blankets rolled in a waterproof lay upon that very stone slab upon which Neolithic man had once slumbered.
Cut deeply in the upright slab of red Island sandstone, the epitaph ran as follows:— SWEET DEPARTED SPIRIT Do receive the vows a grateful widow pays, Each future day and night shall hear her speak her Isaac's praise.
She found herself on the other side of the door without seeing anything remarkable, but immediately she heard a voice speaking in low tones which startled her as with a sense of dreaming in daylight, and advancing unconsciously a step or two beyond the projecting slab of a bookcase, she saw, in the terrible illumination of a certainty which filled up all outlines, something which made her pause, motionless, without self-possession enough to speak.
" Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of "etiquette," for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla's gingham lap.
In his biography in The Dictionary of Scientific Biography his word is quoted: Because I had only my writing brush and ink slab to converse with, I call it Brush Talks.
The 110-foot long structure, an oblique concrete slab that looks like a sunken periscope, was submerged in July 2018 and work is now underway to complete the interiors, in anticipation of the public opening in spring 2019.
"Dinner used to be a slab of red meat swimming in grease,"he recalls.
Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's vision of simple modern homes for the American "everyman," ··（Frank Lloyd Wright) "", Eichler built inexpensive houses that featured floor-to- ceiling glass walls, open floor plans, exposed post-and-beam construction, concrete slab floors, and lots of sliding glass doors.
89 million-square-mile) slab of continental crust that's distinct from Australia.
He could see the bay like a silver slab and the Dawn Treader lying at anchor and camp fires twinkling in the woods beside the beach.
Then, curling up in an armchair with a slim slab of technology seemed an almost rebellious idea.
The house's entrance is marked by a wide slab of concrete with three steps leading up to its front door.
Place the slab of salmon down on a hot grill, close the lid and let the smoke cook it to perfection.
In the expansive savannas there, visitors spend four days watching the harvest, eating lunch with farmers and trying their hand at slicing jamón, the salty slab of cured pork that Spain is famous for, on a farm where pigs are raised eating cork oak acorns.
The straight bridge consists of just one stone slab without any decoration, and is usually leveled with the riverbank or with the river to make the visitors feel as if they are surrounded by water.
" replied Little John So the giant shoved it open with his shoulder There was a spiral staircase "Go on down," directed the giant "After you," answered Little John They went down the steps into a cellar, and the giant pointed to a stone slab on the ground "Raise that!
