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1. It is simply a buttress behind which
2. Her car hit the thick reinforced concrete bridge buttress at seventy kilometres an hour, exploding into a fireball that left little but twisted metal and scorched bones
3. There was a further arch on each side serving as a buttress
4. ―Okay, now we need another buttress against this wall, and then another covering plate
5. The boat now hovered above the mist next to one of the hooktrees, an old moss-bearded giant with immense buttress roots that were frozen in a static kick
6. joined him to see a buttress of rock that didn’t quite meet
7. bottom of the buttress clicked and sprang forward
8. also afforded her a view of the buttress that contained the
9. Albeit gregarious, you don't let yourself become too dependent on the approval and validation of other people to buttress your own sense of self-worth
10. It should be realized that those mandatory ministerial berths and the quota of secretaries would only help buttress their communal self-worth
11. ‘This is our sweet home,’ said Raja Rao, as he took Sandhya round that modest two-bedroom apartment and as if to buttress his feelings, she joined her lips with his
12. She began to wonder at the new sense of confidence in her husband, ‘Oh, what a difference a little recognition did make to his self-confidence! Why not? When a peg or more betters man in bed, won’t a step or two up at the workplace, buttress the feel good of his?’
13. Wonder why life had let fate withdraw its model brand well before its expiry time; but the lament in the obituaries about the loss to the society on account of those, who had long ceased to contribute amuses me; would the lack of meaningless hyperboles in them mean any disrespect to the departed? What about the living legends; the psyche of these spent forces makes an interesting reading; used as they were to adulations in their heydays, they tend to bemuse themselves at sundry events as the organizers eulogize them to add value to their own endeavors, and as if they came out of their oblivion, they head home to savor a peg or two to buttress their fantasy of falsity
14. “But for an ad here and there from a genuine dame, the rest were all from the cravers of female flesh, and given the lack of proper response, one might wonder whether the ‘willing women’ were in deed real beings or merely fictitious characters meant to buttress the publishers’ bottom lines; even otherwise, with the exhibitionist tone of the machismo ads, going through the pages left one with a sickening feeling; pity the dames who fell for such guys
15. Maybe, it’s the disbelief in miracles that occasioned the inevitable dilution in the faith in the Christian West and that helped buttress its belief in materialism, which, any way, was anathema to Jesus
16. Soft-pedaling the issue might serve some to buttress their secular image but it fails, say, the Indian social harmony in the long run
17. Devoid of wisdom and the required discipline to buttress it, this kind
18. In order to buttress themselves against common sense, Scientists erect a system of sanctified knowledge that is not allowed to be questioned by a non-scientific authority
19. Any institution or privileged group will always seek to buttress its advantages behind closed doors, because if they do not; others will question and challenge their special status and privileges
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21. It is also true that he will be far more confident in his selection of an issue if he can buttress an adequate quantitative exhibit with unusually favorable qualitative factors
22. To buttress his case, he started to visit the other larger shareholders of the bank, explaining to them what he thought its shares were worth and why management's proposed acquisition was a mistake
23. In the tropics the flukes of a buttress tree (a) are excellent: slightly curved, straight-grained and easy to work
24. Cut two notches into the fluke of a buttress spaced to the desired handle length (b to c)
25. Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled
1. And should they fail, beyond them was a pair of massive wooden doors that, when shut, could be easily reinforced and buttressed against any outward aggression
2. All of the regions were successfully contacted and sent their responses to the buttressed Tower of Mystic Down
3. Trees forty metres tall with great buttressed trunks
4. And thus, their sense of togetherness was buttressed by the thrill of romanticism
5. It would seem logical that any proposition about evolution cannot bypass the idea of creation, buttressed with religious belief by those closer to the beginnings of life
6. The creamy white concave walls and buttressed gate houses swept up to over one hundred feet and, above and beyond the wall, the transparent dome above could be seen shimmering in the sunlight
7. Be that as it may, it is a paradox of the Christianity in that while it seeks to inculcate the nobility of humility in its believers, it tends to burden their psyche with a sense of guilt buttressed by the feeling of sin
8. Buttressed by awareness of its operation, this knowledge is indestructible and easy to act upon
9. The rooms were carved out of the very mountain itself and were accessed by a tower that buttressed up against the side of the mountain
10. His eyes shone with a grim determination which seemed buttressed by a higher principle, and at one point Holtser thought they would have to give up, that Zander would rather endure any suffering than talk
11. I think I was glad to know it; I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold
12. The less drastic test of 1937–1938 points rather towards the conventional conclusion that issues strongly buttressed by past earnings can be relied on to withstand depressions
13. The trick here, of course, is to have the judgment, buttressed by experience, to pick the deals most likely to succeed and also those which are likely to occasion the smallest loss if they fail
14. Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well posted
15. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the formidable place which had seen the 14th of July
16. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men hold a legion in check
17. Large trees, up to 30m (100ft) high, with buttressed roots and hand-shaped leaves, their fruits consist of pods containing black, peanut-like seeds that can be eaten raw after removing the irritant hairs
18. Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels, and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping western world
1. supported on either side by massive buttresses that seemed to pin the
2. The great limbs put down buttresses in here and the planks of the floor above were nearly hidden by what had grown since then
3. Huge cotton trees had their buttresses stuffed with bones and skulls and human remains were littered about in every direction, while the whole of that terrible place reeked with pestilential odours
4. The enormous stump with its buttresses and gnarled roots was afterwards set on fire, and when darkness fell on the capital the blazing fetish houses and heaps of rubbish, with the black bodies of the levies as they rushed hither and thither, demolishing walls and throwing fresh fuel on the blazing piles, made a weird and striking scene, that will be long imprinted on the minds of those who witnessed it
5. At last the external buttresses of Ankharet’s fortress rose above the canopy of the oak forest
6. The electricity pulsed from the multitude of steeples and flying buttresses atop the massive fortress
7. Buttresses of navy coral held the ceiling up scarcely higher than the children’s heads
8. Moments later, Loki and Sigyn are whisking forward, over and through the illusions of flying buttresses and steeples that are part of this decade’s 13th century revival
9. Great globules of water bounced off the slate roof; streams flooded the gutters; fountains gushed from the mouths of gargoyles; sheets of water unfolded down the buttresses; and torrents ran over the arches and down the columns, soaking the statues of the saints
10. Italy had Gothic cathedrals, Milan being one of the greatest, but modern-minded Italians did not like the architecture of France and England: they regarded huge windows and flying buttresses as a foreign fetish
11. The tower appeared to stand neatly on the four sides of the crossing, and to be exactly two bays square, even though in fact its weight was held up by massive buttresses built into the exterior corners of the transepts, which themselves rested on new foundations separate from the old original ones
12. They slipped through the buttresses, the rafters, the joists; they ran from beam to beam as they might have run from tree to tree in a forest
13. buttresses and broken hills that were now at the nearest scarce a dozen
14. The hollow in which they had taken refuge was delved in the side of a low hill, at some little height above a long trenchlike valley that lay between it and the outer buttresses of the mountains
15. It is the appearance of the price chart—the fact that prices have been advancing significantly and for an appreciable amount of time—that buttresses the logic of the information cascade and entices people to join an investment crowd
16. The limits-to-arbitrage literature buttresses “Samuelson’s dictum”
17. Its giant shape filled the foreground, towering high above the masts, grim and gaunt and ghastly, immovable as the adamantine buttresses of a frowning seaboard, while the liner lurched and staggered like a wounded thing in agony as her engines slowly drew her back from the rampart against which she had flung herself
18. I saw little of the mischief wrought by the Martians until I reached Wellington Street, and there I saw the red weed clambering over the buttresses of Waterloo Bridge
19. Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it
1. Buttressing the old granite portico was a wall in reinforced concrete
2. work was done to try and strengthen the buttressing