One day, however-- sad and melancholy day!-- peace was signed between the survivors of the war; the thunder of the guns gradually ceased, the mortars were silent, the howitzers were muzzled for an indefinite period, the cannon, with muzzles depressed, were returned into the arsenal, the shot were repiled, all bloody reminiscences were effaced; the cotton-plants grew luxuriantly in the well-manured fields, all mourning garments were laid aside, together with grief; and the Gun Club was relegated to profound inactivity.
Maston, "allow me to say that, if I cannot get an opportunity to try my new mortars on a real field of battle, I shall say good-by to the members of the Gun Club, and go and bury myself in the prairies of Arkansas!"
I who address you have myself this very morning perfected a model (plan, section, elevation, etc.) of a mortar destined to change all the conditions of warfare!"
The hobby-horse and the pestle and
mortar were in great requisition during the time I remained in the house of Marheyo, and Kory-Kory had frequent occasion to show his skill in their use.
Ikey's left forefinger was doubled over the edge of the
mortar, holding it steady.
Our
mortar would not carry a line halfway to the crest of the lowest point.
When we came to the place it was a low, marshy ground, walled round with stones, piled up dry, without
mortar or earth among them, like a park, with a little guard of Chinese soldiers at the door.
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. All this while the horn was not idle, for it went round so constantly, now full, now empty, like the bucket of a water-wheel, that it soon drained one of the two wine-skins that were in sight.
The water- way, so fair above and wide below, flows oppressed by bricks and
mortar and stone, by blackened timber and grimed glass and rusty iron, covered with black barges, whipped up by paddles and screws, overburdened with craft, overhung with chains, overshadowed by walls making a steep gorge for its bed, filled with a haze of smoke and dust.
It was built of stone and clay, there being no calcarcous stone in the neighborhood from which lime for
mortar could be procured.
A competent knowledge of history and of the belles-lettres is here absolutely necessary; and without this share of knowledge at least, to affect the character of an historian, is as vain as to endeavour at building a house without timber or
mortar, or brick or stone.
Workmen in aprons, standing on scaffolds, were laying bricks, pouring
mortar out of vats, and smoothing it with trowels.
Masonry
mortars offer stunning technical properties to meet the stringent performance level criterias and requirements that are extremely common in the present day construction landscape.
