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  • They began to collect inside the houses, breaking through the party-walls that they might not be seen going along the streets; they likewise raised barricades of waggons (without the beasts which drew them), and took other measures suitable to the emergency.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • These brick floors, the stone stairs, the want of wainscotting in the rooms, and the thick party-walls of stone, are, however, good preservatives against fire, which seldom does any damage in this city.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • The inside of the works shows the roofless party-walls still standing; and the ground is scattered over with the remains of many different races: there are drums of columns and fragments of marble pillars, but no sign of an inscription.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The Metropolitan Building Acts, up to about the year 1825, by insisting upon party-walls and other precautions, were invaluable for the prevention of the spread of fires.

    Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

  • He strongly contended for the principle of dividing buildings by party-walls carried through the roof, and restricting these divisions to a moderate cubic content.

    Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

  • The Russian stoves, however, are, in fact, thick hollow party-walls, built of brick, and sometimes separating, or connecting, as many as three or four rooms, and heating them all from one common centre.

    Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

  • This is pretty nearly the same as if that number of houses were built without party-walls, only that it is much worse, for the whole mass generally communicates by well holes and open staircases, and thus takes fire with great rapidity, and, from the quantity of fresh air within the building, the fire makes much greater progress before it is discovered.

    Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

  • That all the party-walls in the valleys of the roofs should be raised to the level of the highest ridge on either side, all openings in such walls being closed by wrought-iron doors on each side of the walls, at least a quarter of an inch thick in the panels, and such openings not to exceed 42 superficial feet in the clear.

    Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

  • That all the party-walls where the roofs do not rise above the wall, should be 3 feet 6 inches above such roof.

    Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

  • Great carelessness is frequently exhibited by builders, when erecting at one time two or three houses connected by mutual gables, by not carrying up the gables, or party-walls, so as to divide the roofs.

    Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

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