What is "stonework"

Usage examples of "stonework".

The allopathist strolled along, from time to time using this stick to point out a particularly fine example of stonework, and idly spinning the stick in an apparently nonchalant but very practiced way, and none of the Rodeni approached him.

The tops of the divisions are ornamented with cusped arches of open stonework.

The Vor lord was sick again, and his male victim started climbing up after him, slipping on the beslimed stonework and promising violent retribution.

Like the others, this appeared to be mortarless stonework, the higher floors slightly outset from the lower.

More important matters were afoot than repointing stonework or painting.

Tristen rubbed his ungloved fingers across the stonework of the banister, exploring the sting and the depth of the coating.

It is far better, when there is no question of stability but only of appearance, to leave the old stonework, even though much decayed, as it is, unscraped, untouched by the chisel, and where strength is needed to put in frankly nineteenth-century work, which could never by any possibility be mistaken for part of the original building.

The warf itself was a seawall that looked as if the original stonework was Roman with rickety wooden piers jutting out from it.

Vinapu is an ahu where the stonework is believed to resemble that of Cusco, Peru, and one that people point to as evidence of South Amerindian settlement.

The difference between bifacially flaked tools and microblade technology may be more than a difference in stoneworking technique.

Troop Guide Bikaner would never make it I looked at the stonework of the tower.

The stonework was blistered with soot, and great cracks in its mortar had opened up where the heat of flames had touched upon it.

At the moment he worked drifting almost weightlessly in his spacesuit, surrounded by riches of old inscriptions, kilometers of ancient stonework, and mazes of rooms, some of them containing chests made of metal and of unknown materials, still-sealed relics of Dardanian days.

He could see lots of stonework, but if there was as much as a fingerhold in reach of the bridge, the night hid it.

Beside the gate, that fountain known as the Mercy of the Ila gushed from stonework mouths and ran out so profligately that it splashed from the fountain bowl to the troughs and some onto the stones of the street, to be trampled underfoot.