Experiments were made mixing lime with other materials to provide a hydraulic mortar, but there was still no equivalent of the Roman concrete.

The workers created the material by mixing lime (extracted by burning crushed oyster shells), more crushed shells, sand and water.

Till Sir Henry, who happened to know something about it, showed them how to do it by mixing silica and lime, they could not make a piece of glass, and their crockery is rather primitive.

The mosaicist has served tonight as his own apprentice, mixing lime for the setting bed, carrying it up the ladder himself.

The Greeks began the use of slaked lime as mortar and the Romans furthered mortar development by mixing lime with volcanic ash and sand.

These figures are sometimes smeared with a liquid made from mixing lime (calcium hydroxide), water and turmeric and which ritually represents blood.

Pan sellers offer to mix lime, spices, and bits of nuts and tobacco in a fresh betel-leaf packet for chewing.

It is made by mixing hydrated lime, sulfur, and water, and boiling for about 45 minutes.

Another popular legend is that an English pirate concocted a beverage similar to the Mojito by mixing aguardiente, sugar, lime, and mint.

Seljuq buildings generally incorporate brick, while the inner and outer walls are decorated in a material made by mixing marble, powder, lime and plaster.