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The first surveyors to use ropes and plumbs may have been Egyptian.

They initially consisted of sugar plumbs, kisses, and oranges.

Over the plumbs was an inverted beautifully painted jar.

This three-part special plumbs the darkest recesses of several men and women's brains to figure out why we just can't get along.

So did the specially designed plumbs ing, which now had to work at the first attempt, for there would be no opportunity for modifications.

Through the 40s and 50s the Plumbs built up a high performing 200 cow Ayrshire herd, complete with automated milking.

Then it was flavored with prairie herbs and dried plumbs, becoming a succulent dish which the plains tribes considered a delicacy.

And someone had thought to surround the creature with plumb-bobs to test for an incident side thrust; there was none; the plumbs were undisturbed.

But growers say that people are being conned because some spanish plumbs are being labelled as Victorias - which they're not:

Near them was a skeleton, on whose skull were assembled ninety-five painted ceramic fishing plumbs, as if fisherman net had been carefully folded and placed over his head.

But fruit wholesaler Peter Ford says there's no way that Spanish plumbs can ever compete with the quality of english plums, even if they are cheaper:

Established under the name of Plumbs Cross Roads on 28 January 1878, its name was changed to Roselms on 13 June 1892.

There was plumbs and grumes and cheriffs and citherers and raiders and cinemen too.

There are two chapels; the Plumbs' Chapel on the north side is dated 1716 and on the south side the Salisbury pew (formerly Isaac Green's Chapel) dates from 1739-40.

Like Carpenters Without Tools The central bank's predicament is akin to that of a team of carpenters who discover that their levels, plumbs and tape measures are no longer reliable and thus have to rely on the naked eye to make sure walls are vertical and floors horizontal.

You could have dropped a plumb line from the small of her back to the floor.

You could have used his spine to draw a plumb line.

He shook his head at the landscaping over my new plumbing lines.

Straight as a plumb line she sat down opposite his desk.

The part that is cut off should then be hung in sequence with a plumb line.

Next I checked the depth of the hole, using a board and a plumb line.

It even gave instructions on how to obtain measurements using the plumb line.

It involved the use of a bar with a plumb line, attached to a wooden handle.

The supporting leg is seen behind an arm on the same side that hangs down like, in effect, a plumb line.

She tried setting up long plumb lines and dropping things, with inconclusive results.

To keep the shafts to the correct alignment, plumb lines were used.

Take the time to do it right, he said, by masking off guides using a plumb line and blue tape.

Now everything from lasers to plumb lines is being used to gather information on the dome.

The plumb line in most mega-dollar book negotiations is secrecy.

The water is flushed out the drain hose to the sink or through the plumbing lines.

The cannons are set to the outside of the knee so an imaginary plumb line does not fall through middle.

Knee inclines forward, in front of a plumb line, when viewed from the side.

There is a sense of vulnerability when walls are down, plumbing lines disrupted or windows removed.

From the outside corner of the joint where the top plates meet on the ceiling drop a plumb line to the floor.

As a result, he said, it is necessary to disinfect not only the well itself but all of the plumbing lines and fixtures.

His books are as reliable as a plumb line.

The weakest, our physicist, had only to hold up a piece of string with a stone as plumb line.

We recorded each area of spatter using a scale and a plumb line."

Both are based on rectilinear forms, corners crisp and plumb lines true.

In addition I had a number of tools for measuring: a tape, a square, a spirit level and a plumb line.