He said it was hoped the crypts could open to the public once they had been damp-proofed and cleared of rubble.
Given that odours can cue recall of a memory - an "earthy" flavour might evoke the joys of the hills and valleys to one person, but an unpleasant damp-in-the-basement experience to another.
The guest rooms and suites also feature an intelligent-thermostat system, though when I visited, it wasn't hitting on all cylinders: My room was perpetually chilly, and my clothes and sheets slightly damp--humidity being a major annoyance in this seaside megacity.
Huddled in a damp fire-station a young man connects a laptop, a binocular-style iris scanner and a glowing green machine that records 30 points from a set of fingerprints.
The woman's home in a narrow alley doesn't have a proper roof, so the place was damp and water-logged after recent rain storms.
Foster, editor of a small daily in Shenandoah, Pa. who becomes outraged when a coal miner friend dies with his crew, the result of fire-damp (carbon dioxide asphyxiation).
Somehow it has materialised here, where the harsh lighting illuminates the painting's terrible state of preservation a condition that may worsen in the damp and all-too-crowded rooms of this exhibition.
More recently, the souring economy has begun to slow growth and damp the commercial real-estate market.
Other showbusiness names honoured include actor Chiwetel Ejiofor - who has appeared in Inside Man, Love Actually and American Gangster - and Rising Damp star Don Warrington.
The march by Chardon High School students, walking arm-in-arm in the damp cold from the school to the town square, was an emotional highlight during the day's commemoration.
He believes that positive supply-side forces will continue to damp the impact of strong demand on output prices and that productivity gains will continue to damp the effect of higher wages on unit labor costs.
If the public-private partnership proves to be a damp squib, Mr Geithner can expect to face a barrage of complaints that he took the wrong course.
The 28-year-old Ferrari-bound Spaniard clocked his best lap of 1:12.314 in the final seconds of a closely-contested session run in cool and damp conditions with showers disrupting the action.
After a day punctuated by rain delays on Monday, Murray was able to wrap up a 7-5 6-2 6-3 victory with just one interruption before damp conditions halted the action on all but Centre Court.
Though darkness had fallen early, raging blazes in two walk-in fireplaces and dozens of flickering candles kept the damp at bay and softened the edges of the formal room.
"I feel like my skin is a damp cheesecloth, " moans Bontecou after a night in the spartan wood-and-stucco house where the guests stay.
Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB's president, tried to damp down even that concern, pointing out that banks could tap unlimited liquidity at the ECB and that they had ample collateral left to post in return.
The raised suspension and 8.7 inches of ground clearance gives the ride that stiffer truck-like inference and more solid sense of handling, particularly in damp conditions, when you want your SUV to handle with a sense of authority.
With play not starting until 1200 BST because of murky light and a damp outfield to contend with, only 70 overs were bowled in the day - but it was a fascinating opening to the first neutral Test at Lord's since 1912.
After the enormous success of the Olympics - boldly dubbed "the warm-up" by Channel 4 in its "Superhumans" ad campaign - there was a danger that the Paralympics could have been a damp squib if the media had not embraced the Games so warmly.
Shelter said 62% of complaints in the last year related to "serious and life-threatening hazards", such as dangerous gas and electrics and severe damp.
Of course there have been disappointments: George Bush did not choose him as vice-president, and his campaign for the 1996 presidential nomination was a damp squib.
Although, on the face of it, the Versailles meeting adds greatly to the tally of recent Franco-German initiatives, in practice some of them are likely to prove damp squibs.
Stacey Jackson, who lives with her three children and partner in a two-bedroom housing association flat, has complained to the council about problems with damp and black mould.
In order to pop a property bubble and damp inflation, the government has tightened credit, driving property prices down by something like 20%-30%.
Before Tuesday's picture-perfect launch, Elon Musk, Spacex's founder and chief executive, tried to damp expectations.
Preventing this process using an iron-free, corrosion-resistant alloy barrier is particularly important in a city like Boston, where the air is damp and laden with salt water.
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They were given a storage room to sleep in -- there were no windows, no electricity and just a plastic sheet on the cold, damp cement floor.
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