masonry

She presents the curious anomaly of the most solid masonry joining with oak and hemp in constituting the completed ship.

The floor was of concrete, the walls of the dry masonry that marked the method of construction above ground.

He had gone forward but a short distance, when, to his chagrin, a wall of masonry barred his farther progress, closing the tunnel completely from top to bottom and from side to side.

There was one place where an eighteen-inch breadth of light masonry had been added to the verge of the path, and as there was a very sharp turn here, a panel of fencing had been set up there at some time, as a protection.

It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry -- very smooth, slimy, and cold.

The bullet striking the wooden casing of the window exploded, blowing a hole completely through the wood and masonry.

This gift will be a pledge of your purity of heart to her whom you select to be your worthy helpmeet in Masonry." And after a pause, he added: "But beware, dear brother, that these gloves do not deck hands that are unclean." While the Grand Master said these last words it seemed to Pierre that he grew embarrassed.

"No, I think of sinking this engine in the earth alone, binding it with hoops of wrought iron, and finally surrounding it with a thick mass of masonry of stone and cement.

David's Tower was one tottering wall and a scattered mass of masonry.

I had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off.

Not a morsel of the masonry of this tomb has been chipped off."

They are not shells or shafts of stone filled inside with rubbish, but the whole pier is a mass of solid masonry. Vast arches, that may have been the gates of the city, are built in the same way.