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  • These were supposed to be the Continents, over which Prince Albert, though dead, still held sway, but he paid no attention to them; he sat stern and silent under his ornate, gilded cupola, gazing into the distance, his mind on higher things.†  (source)
  • The diner was situated across the street from the Mellen town hall, a large squarish building with an unlikely looking cupola facing the road.†  (source)
  • The sky was the very blue that the cupolas of St. Basil's had been painted for.†  (source)
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  • Langdon's eyes moved heavenward, up into the gaping void of the Chapter House cupola.†  (source)
    cupola = an architectural feature at the top of a roof, usually dome-shaped and opened by windows or columns
  • Behind the buildings a mass of trees extended into the distance, punctuated by steeples, cornices, rooftops, and cupolas.†  (source)
  • There is a white steepled Congregational church, a stone courthouse with an adjoining jail, a cupolaed public library, a wooden well from which Paul Revere is rumored to have drunk.†  (source)
  • It was housed in a cupola atop a firehouse across the street from Billy's office.†  (source)
  • I dreamed about bay windows and cupolas, balconies, and slanted attic ceilings in a bedroom.†  (source)
  • A great space surrounded by tall ugly houses, with an ugly church at the corner and a nondescript ugly cupolaed building at my back; the roadway thronged with a sweltering and excited crowd, dominated by omnibuses crowded with spectators.†  (source)
  • The cupola glistened like polished moonstone, a milky bead floating atop a pyramid of gray slate.†  (source)
  • Rain fell softly on town cupolas, chuckled from rainspouts, and spoke in strange subterranean tongues beneath the windows where Jim and Will knew fitful dreams, slipping out of one, trying another for size, but finding all cut from the same dark, mouldered cloth.†  (source)
  • In Mellen, Trudy parked the truck in front of the cupolaed town hall and the three of them followed the arrows painted on the hallway until they reached the sheriff's office.†  (source)
  • Jace headed toward the cupola and the doors that led inside.†  (source)
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