Sentence Examples

1. The northern facing wall was subject to the full punishment metered out by the weather and his fingers felt the scooped-out sandstone blocks, eroded away under pressure from the wind, and the slits between the blocks where the mortar had crumbled.
2. Orange blazed in the small windows, at the seals of the wooden front door on the lake side, and in scattered spots between the logs where the shrinking mortar clay fell out.
3. The stones are big and roughly cut, and the mortar has by process of time been washed away between them.
4. The bricks were his countless inconsistencies, the mortar his incapability of giving me what I needed.
5. The course of meat finished, they spread upon the sheepskins a great heap of parched acorns, and with them they put down a half cheese harder than if it had been made of mortar.
6. I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
7. Gudrun ignored the bath and the plethora of swords and daggers strewn about with the occasional collection of bundled heather or sage, the desk overflowing with powdered spices, minced herbs, and dried rose petals resting beside the mortar and pestle, which she recognized as her own.
8. She positioned various herbs and bottles around a pestle and mortar alongside the trinkets and treasures she pulled from the box.
9. The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.
10. Our own destination was already growing larger by the minute, though that was no great feat the city easily dwarfed even the largest ones I had seen on our adventure to date, with gargantuan stone parapets creeping above a towering curtain wall of brick and mortar.