Scaffolding
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Without some
scaffolding
of law, open conflict is all too likely.
That tower is now wrapped in
scaffolding
because – for the first time ever and, so to speak, at the eleventh hour – it is being renovated.
Perhaps this
scaffolding
serves as an analogy for all postcommunist countries.
If some of our best features are not quite visible for the time being, it is because our societies are covered by
scaffolding
as they undergo reconstruction, striving anew – this time in complete freedom – to rediscover and restore our true identities.
What is possible, however, is that the Western ethos of unhampered freedom and permissive tolerance fails to provide some people with the psychological
scaffolding
needed to construct an identity that can cope with the demands and pressures of constant individual choice.
In addition, countries should provide essential “digital scaffolding” around which new technological solutions can be deployed at scale.
Beside the finished building another as yet surrounded by
scaffolding
was being built.
Workmen wearing aprons stood on the
scaffolding
laying bricks, pouring water from wooden pails, or smoothing the mortar.
An iron frame, like the high
scaffolding
of a belfry, supported the pulleys.
This lasted as long as he could see light, through the two reception stories, in the midst of the whirling by of the
scaffolding.
Now the wagon-gallery was constructed of wood; props of timber supported the roof, and made for the crumbly rock a screen of scaffolding, behind which one could see the plates of schist glimmering with mica, and the coarse masses of dull, rough sandstone.
Above, the sloes and hawthorns growing among the fallen
scaffolding
of the belfry filled up the mouth of the hole.
Had the weight of the soil against the timber which formed the internal skirt of
scaffolding
to the shaft so pushed it in that the winding-cages rubbed as they went down for a length of over fifty metres?
In this descent of the rocks lines of fracture were sometimes produced which slowly extended as far as the scaffolding, at last perforating it and pushing it into the shaft; and there was the great danger of a landslip and a flood filling the pit with an avalanche of earth and a deluge of springs.
The bite of his tools could be heard, his spine lengthened, he crawled, climbed down, then up again, holding on by a miracle, in continual movement, the flight of a nocturnal bird amid the
scaffolding
of a belfry.
But his own teeth were chattering, a minute more and he would be swallowed up; everything was smashing up there, a flood had broken loose, a murderous rain of
scaffolding.
And the engineer could only make out one thing with certainty: there were men down below, for their yells could be distinguished through the sound of the water and the fallen scaffolding, on leaning over the mouth of the shaft.
As he sank down he heard the cries becoming louder, and he was obliged to stop; an impassable obstacle barred the shaft--a mass of scaffolding, the broken joists of the guides, the split brattices entangled with the metal-work torn from the pump.
You'd get a
scaffolding
pole entangled you would!"
Frequently he planted himself before Notre Dame, to contemplate the
scaffolding
surrounding the cathedral which was then undergoing repair.
On a slab a few paces away, was stretched the body of a great, big fellow, a mason who had recently killed himself on the spot by falling from a
scaffolding.
Some
scaffolding
had been erected against the end wall, and the stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any workmen at the moment of our visit.
One afternoon when he had spent some time in coaxing the child away, and had finally resorted to force, much to the child's disgust, a twelve-foot balk of teak-wood, as he was passing out under an arch in process of repair, crashed down from the
scaffolding
just in front of Fibby's nose.
He reflected on the incurable slackness of these people, stopped to swear at the workmen crouched on the
scaffolding
in the hollow of the arch, and went on.
And now, all this
scaffolding
of reasonings fell before a simple ball of metal, found in the body of an inoffensive rodent!
At the climax, perched on a
scaffolding
of chairs, he dropped in a very long slow fall, and his piercing, melancholy hoot of triumph lasted as long as the fall and was mingled with shrieks of fear from the women.
It was an impotent man, both halt and crippled, and halt and crippled to such a degree that the complicated system of crutches and wooden legs which sustained him, gave him the air of a mason's
scaffolding
on the march.
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