Uncemented

Columbia-based Dr. Thomas Gross led the first successful FDA resurfacing study and was the developing surgeon for the BIOMET Recap and Magnum hip reconstruction systems, the world's first fully porous coated, "uncemented," femoral component for resurfacing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

-- William F. Buckley, Jr. I am in Sainte Cécile for the week visiting my husband who has been holding down the French fort -- a fragmented one at that, what with with ceilings coming uncemented and doors dropping like dragonflies. ❋ Unknown (2007)

(April 24, 2007) I am in Sainte Cécile for the week visiting my husband who has been holding down the French fort — a fragmented one at that, what with with ceilings coming uncemented and doors dropping like dragonflies. ❋ Unknown (2007)

April 24, 2007 I am in Sainte Cécile for the week visiting my husband who has been holding down the French fort—a fragmented one at that, what with with ceilings coming uncemented and doors dropping like dragonflies. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The wall is built all along of uncemented stones, but of so large a size as to make a very firm and durable rampart. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There stood upon it, in these days, a single rude house of uncemented stones, approached by ❋ Unknown (2005)

- If the soil is too unstable it may be useful to support the walls with uncemented bricks. ❋ Unknown (1994)

A small hill has been cut down and the earthwork surrounded by masonry, uncemented, unjointed, layer upon layer, and there is no column, pillar, or true arch. ❋ Thomas H. Reid (N/A)

Sometimes the well is merely a shallow hole, uncemented, to catch the seepage of the upper strata. ❋ Mary Helen Fee (N/A)

The palace was a shanty of log or wattle, protected, perhaps, by a rampart of earth or uncemented stones, and the king had a stone chair with a few mystic decorations scratched on it, which served for his throne on state occasions. ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)

The road passing this garden leads to the ruins of the ancient walls, formed of huge uncemented blocks, not parallel, but of different sizes, and some of them indented into each other. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)

I feel the glaring of their curious eyes between the crevices which time has uncemented. ❋ Various (N/A)

The outer wall as seen from the inside is built of rough uncemented blocks of the earliest polygonal construction, such as we see in a few of the oldest Cyclopean cities of Central Italy; and the doorway is formed by the gradual convergence of stones laid in horizontal courses, instead of being arched by regular wedges of stone held together. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

I may instance the case of my father, who was storm-bound three days upon an islet, sleeping in the uncemented and unchimneyed houses of the islanders, and subsisting on a diet of nettle-soup and lobsters. ❋ Unknown (1912)

She paused, and looked away from him and down at the uncemented marble blocks which form the pavement of the Parthenon. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

I stumbled into what I had thought a rock, and found when my eyes grew used to the light that I was in a house built of great stones, uncemented but wonderfully fitted together, and warm and bright with the driftwood fire, though I heard the spray rattle on the roof of flat stones, and the wind howled strangely around the walls. ❋ Unknown (1884)

There I found tremendous uncemented blocks; they glared and twinkled in the powerful light, and I had to put on a blue eye-glass in order to throw into its proper perspective the vague Etruscan past, obtruded and magnified in such masses quite as with the effect of inadequately-withdrawn hands and feet in photographs. ❋ Henry James (1879)

First a wharf of uncemented stone rising from the cove like a wall; then great trees through which one caught sight of a torii before some Shinto shrine, and of a dozen houses climbing the hollow hill one behind another, roof beyond roof; and above these some terraced patches of tilled ground in the midst of desolation: that was all. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)