The style of these buildings evinces that the architect possessed neither the art of using lime or cement of any kind, nor the skill to throw an arch, construct a roof, or erect a stair ; and yet, with all this ignorance, showed great ingenuity in selecting the situation of Burghs, and regulating the access to them, as well as neatness and regularity in the erection, since the buildings themselves show a style of advance in the arts scarcely consistent with the ignorance of so many of the principal branches of architectural knowledge.
The builders had attained the art of using cement, and of roofing a building, great improvements on the original Burgh.
It was dug out under the wing of the house, was plastered and
cemented, with a stairway and an outside door by which the men came and went.
After several blows he perceived that the stones were not
cemented, but had been merely placed one upon the other, and covered with stucco; he inserted the point of his pickaxe, and using the handle as a lever, with joy soon saw the stone turn as if on hinges, and fall at his feet.
Then, on the slight turn of the Lower Hope Reach, clusters of factory chimneys come distinctly into view, tall and slender above the squat ranges of
cement works in Grays and Greenhithe.
At the railroad station, the crate was handled, not with deliberate roughness, but with such carelessness that it half- slipped out of a baggage-man's hands, capsized sidewise, and was caught when it was past the man's knees but before it struck the
cement floor.
In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to
cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.
The union Anna had
cemented turned out to be of no solid character, and family harmony was breaking down again at the same point.
As I remember it now, the thing that was uppermost in my mind was the desire to say something that would cement the friendship of the races and bring about hearty cooperation between them.
It is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom.
Smyth, a respectable woman from the settlement in Canada, whither they were fleeing, being fortunately about crossing the lake to return thither, had consented to appear as the aunt of little Harry; and, in order to attach him to her, he had been allowed to remain, the two last days, under her sole charge; and an extra amount of petting, jointed to an indefinite amount of seed-cakes and candy, had
cemented a very close attachment on the part of the young gentleman.
But the return was no such easy matter: the stones were smooth and neatly
cemented, and the rose-bushes and black-berry stragglers could yield no assistance in re-ascending.
Glass ionomeric
cements are hybrid bone substitutes that were developed in 1969 and have since found a place as a filling material in dentistry.
The German Standards Committee has adopted the following definition for
cements: "
Cements are bonding agents consisting essentially of compounds of calcium oxide with silica, alumina and iron oxide, which can harden in air and underwater and are stable in water after they are hardened, and which furthermore satisfy the conditions as to strength and consistency of volume laid down in the standard specifications."
The Romans, having discovered that adding volcanic ash gave their
cements superior strength and water resistance, erected the Colosseum, the Pantheon and a multitude of other concrete buildings and underwater structures.
