masonry
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Steel beams can be installed against masonry walls to give older spaces added protection from reverberations, but it’s unclear whether any were installed at Golestan or Chehel Sotoun.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Night-time footage released by the Iranian Red Crescent shows rescuers removing fallen masonry to try to reach Berivan's trapped mother as she begs to know: "Is my daughter alive?"
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
His graciousness even extended to the treatment of wooden water tanks, which he often wrapped in masonry to give them the appearance of little temples—much nicer to look at from the street.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
A witness told AFP that masonry from an eight-storey building in Dhaka had fallen onto a busy road below.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
I knew that the man who inscribed it had foreseen these ruins and did not want his masonry identified with the wrong era.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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"Sonnet 55" by William Shakespeare
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