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  • The red brick dated back to the 1850s, and the building was complete with a romantic cupola and a widow's walk to watch for vessels coming in from sea.†   (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)
  • Nancy had a study in the cupola at the top of the house.†   (source)
  • The cupola glistened like polished moonstone, a milky bead floating atop a pyramid of gray slate.†   (source)
  • THE BARN was built on the english style and it was sheathed with milled one by fours and painted white and it had a cupola and a weathervane on top of the cupola.†   (source)
  • Overlooking the entire city was a watchman in the cupola of the Courthouse, one hundred feet above the ground.†   (source)
  • He sees himself staring up at the clock and the roof balustrade and the ornate stone cupola.†   (source)
  • This cheered her considerably and she followed us into the cupola of the East Wing, where we set our candles to burning.†   (source)
  • Mr. Smith had lost his balance for a second, and was trying gallantly to hold on to a triangle of wood that jutted from the cupola.†   (source)
  • Rostipov made his living as a magician in vaudeville shows and had achieved the incredible feat of stringing a wire from the pinnacle of the cathedral to the cupola of the Galician Brotherhood, on the other side of the plaza, which he walked across with only a frail stick for balance.†   (source)
  • At its far end, the golden cupolas of the Orthodox church rose up like two gilded cannonballs kept from imminent collapse and suspended in the air by some invisible Power.†   (source)
  • At midnight, when the corridors became deserted, there were places in the hospital where the lights dimmed and where I could see traces of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour's past glory; it showed in the gold filigree work above the archways, in the high ceilings of the old maternity wing, in the marble floor of the administrative foyer, and the stained-wood cupola of the chapel.†   (source)
  • The porch wrapped around an old house on a hill just outside Clanton, with a view of the town below and the courthouse cupola square in the middle.†   (source)
  • A garden to the rear reached down to the shore of the Hudson and from a rooftop platform and cupola, one could see for miles in every direction.†   (source)
  • He passed an unusual white church—a steeple atop a Palladian-arch cupola on columns atop a clock tower—which cast a stunted shadow in the early-afternoon sun.†   (source)
  • It was housed in a cupola atop a firehouse across the street from Billy's office.†   (source)
  • Jace headed toward the cupola and the doors that led inside.†   (source)
  • Throughout this mad jumble, however, Max could see unmistakable elements of human architecture—Chinese pavilions, Islamic minarets, Egyptian obelisks, massive domes and cupolas whose scale dwarfed their human antecedents.†   (source)
  • The church turned out to be a small, unassuming white cube topped with more of a cupola than a steeple, squeezed between a ma-and-pa grocery store and a house already decorated to the nines for Halloween.†   (source)
  • Di Presso, Scuba suit glistening, scrambled up the side of a cupola.†   (source)
  • From its second-floor dormers and cupolas to the frames of its basement-level windows the house was unrelievedly pink.†   (source)
  • A house of the type that was common once in Western New York and can still be seen here and there in the country--the Hodge place, for instance, out on Putnam Settlement Road--solid, unspeakably dignified with its great blunt planes of chalky orange brick, its Victorian porches, its cupola: the most beautiful architecture in the world, symbolic of virtues no longer to be found.†   (source)
  • The burnished disks glimmered in the setting sun as it sifted through the cupola.†   (source)
  • Langdon's eyes moved heavenward, up into the gaping void of the Chapter House cupola.†   (source)
  • High above, smoke and flames swirled in the cupola.†   (source)
  • To his right, the smoking cupola of Santa Maria della Vittoria.†   (source)
  • Smoke spiraled over the cupola, lit by the media lights and fire trucks.†   (source)
  • The battery up by the cupola had stopped firing.†   (source)
  • And curving above all but the mountains was the great white cupola ribbed with chiseled gold.†   (source)
  • He climbed the cupola, looked out across the field of war.†   (source)
  • He sent the messenger off into the mist, climbed again into the cupola.†   (source)
  • Beyond the stream there was a rise and atop the rise was a large red building with a white cupola.†   (source)
  • Buford waited in the cupola, weariness suddenly beginning to get to him in waves.†   (source)
  • He leaned against the side of the cupola.†   (source)
  • In the morning he would have a good view from the cupola.†   (source)
  • He rode up toward the brick building with the cupola and topped a crest.†   (source)
  • Now batteries were in position behind him, beginning to open up on the woods near the cupola.†   (source)
  • At the summit of the house was a cupola with diamond leaded-glass windows and a dunce-cap roof!†   (source)
  • Now he rested in the most sacred of tombs, buried five stories down, directly beneath the central cupola of the basilica.†   (source)
  • The gently sloping cupola, Langdon knew, was modeled after the Pantheon, the original home to the great Roman gods of mythology.†   (source)
  • On Monday, shortly after one o'clock, as Burnham supervised repairs and crews removed storm debris from the grounds, smoke began to rise from the cupola of the Cold Storage tower, where the fire of June 17 also had taken light.†   (source)
  • There was nothing to distract me as I made my way across a wide yard, called the Far Common, and up to a building as red brick and balanced as the other major buildings, but with a large cupola and a bell and a clock and Latin over the doorway—the First Academy Building.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon stood beneath the lofty cupola of the deserted Chapter House and stared into the barrel of Leigh Teabing's gun.†   (source)
  • Phineas stopped talking for once, so that now I could hear cricket noises and bird cries of dusk, a gymnasium truck gunning along an empty athletic road a quarter of a mile away, a burst of faint, isolated laughter carried to us from the back door of the gym, and then over all, cool and matriarchal, the six o'clock bell from the Academy Building cupola, the calmest, most carrying bell toll in the world, civilized, calm, invincible, and final.†   (source)
  • Half of Teabing's brain attempted to adjust his aim and fire again in rage, but the more powerful half dragged his eyes upward into the cupola.†   (source)
  • The church was opposite them, a hazy cupola emerging from a faint cluster of buildings across the square.†   (source)
  • Dead center of the sanctuary, beneath the main cupola, wooden pews had been stacked high and were now ablaze in some sort of epic funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • Overhead, the domed cupola shone with a field of illuminated stars and the seven astronomical planets.†   (source)
  • The sprawling ceiling hovered overhead as though weightless-the 141-foot unsupported span larger even than the cupola at St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon had no idea where he was or how long he had been unconscious when he opened his eyes and found himself staring up at the underside of a baroque, frescoed cupola.†   (source)
  • A cupola of stars?†   (source)
  • FEDERAL HALL, where Congress met, was a handsomely proportioned stone building at the junction of Broad and Wall Streets distinguished by its glassy cupola and colonnaded front balcony.†   (source)
  • When the dead doctor's daughter saw Mr. Smith emerge as promptly as he had promised from behind the cupola, his wide blue silk wings curved forward around his chest, she dropped her covered peck basket, spilling red velvet rose petals.†   (source)
  • She drank a Diet Coke to wake herself up, and walked upstairs to her study in the cupola of the house.†   (source)
  • The room was round, and capped by an absurd Byzantine cupola surrounded with windows, through which one could see all the rooftops of the city and feel close to the clouds.†   (source)
  • A lofty beacon pole rose from the crest of Beacon Hill, and at the center of the town, the Province House, headquarters for the British command, could be readily identified by its large, octagonal cupola and distinctive gold weather vane of an Indian with bow and arrow.†   (source)
  • Stopping at a door, Gannel ushered Eragon through to a curved gallery located directly below the cupola.†   (source)
  • The iron cupola the British had built in imitation of Victoria Station in the days when they had the concession to the national railways had not changed at all since the last time he had been there several years before— the same dirty windows, the same little shoeshine boys, the same women selling biscuits and candies, and the same porters with their dark caps bearing the insignia of the British crown, which no one had thought to replace with the colors of the national flag.†   (source)
  • They called it Not Doctor Street, and were inclined to call the charity hospital at its northern end No Mercy Hospital since it was 1931, on the day following Mr. Smith's leap from its cupola, before the first colored expectant mother was allowed to give birth inside its wards and not on its steps.†   (source)
  • Then the babysitter arrived, an older woman named Mrs. Trapane, who got Jaime and Jason dressed and gave them their breakfasts while Nancy climbed back up to the cupola and returned to her books.†   (source)
  • Work on the mausoleum began soon after Clara's death, but it took almost two years to complete because I kept adding costly new details: tombstones with Gothic lettering in gold, a glass cupola to let the sunlight in, and an ingenious apparatus copied from the Roman fountains that allows a small interior garden, which I planted with roses and camellias, the favorite flowers of the two sisters who had won my heart, to be watered in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • The Jaaxes' house was the largest Victorian house in town, a pile of turreted brick with a slate roof and tall windows and a cupola and wooden paneling made of golden American chestnut.†   (source)
  • A short tiled staircase covered with false Persian carpets led to a hexagonal room with a cupola on the roof, where someone who had never been in an Arab harem had arrayed everything thought to have existed in one: damask cushions, glass incense burners, bells, and every conceivable trinket from a bazaar.†   (source)
  • Buford went down from the cupola, restless, found Bill Gamble in the field by Calef's Battery, checking ammunition.†   (source)
  • Then he climbed the ladder into the white cupola and sat listening to the rain, watching the light come.†   (source)
  • He galloped back to the Seminary and climbed the cupola and gazed back to that southern road, but there was nothing there.†   (source)
  • On the far side of the town there was a red brick building, the stately Seminary, topped with a white cupola.†   (source)
  • He climbed down out of the cupola.†   (source)
  • They went down out of the cupola.†   (source)
  • He felt the attack come and turned his face toward the sound of the guns, judging the size of the attack by the width of the sound, and he sat grinning alone in the cupola, while the Rebel troops pushed his line and drew back, bloody, and tried again in another place, the firing spreading all down the line like a popping fuse, and then there was another long silence, and Buford could feel them reforming again, beginning for the first time to take this seriously.†   (source)
  • We aren't going to the river though, we won't see the little cupolas on the buildings down that way, white with blue and gold trim, such chaste gaiety.†   (source)
  • Our churches, known the world over for their idiosyncratic beauty, for their brightly colored spires and improbable cupolas, we raze one by one.†   (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)
  • On another page was a cathedral to atheism with fifty different cupolas, several of which could be launched like rockets to the moon.†   (source)
  • Hazy rays of newborn light streaked horizontally across the city, gilding the tops of the towers, the battlemerits, the cupolas, and the slanted roofs.†   (source)
  • As a result, architects relied on old and dangerous habits, such as substituting wood for stone and decorating their buildings with wooden awnings, cupolas, and cornices.†   (source)
  • Even though neither of us was superstitious, that necropolis of crosses, cupolas, and tombstones had us pretty nervous.†   (source)
  • …had been satisfied with what he was, had cleverly revelled in it: had not built huge barns as the Congressman did--the austere gray buildings of Stony Hill Farm, each barn stern and intransigent under its sharp, high gables and neatly louvered cupolas lifting up lightning rods like safeguards against sorcery (gleaming copper, with globes of blue glass, or bluish green, like hypnotists' globes of 1900)--but had neatly, skillfully patched up the barns his father had built; had perched on…†   (source)
  • Then tell me if it is logical that the Martians should have: one, leaded-glass windows; two, cupolas; three, porch swings; four, an instrument that looks like a piano and probably is a piano; and five, if you look closely through this telescopic lens here, is it logical that a Martian composer would have published a piece of music titled, strangely enough, 'Beautiful Ohio'?†   (source)
  • When at last they reached the town square and the tall white cupola of the city hall loomed up, she made her thanks, climbed down from the wagon and watched the country woman drive off.†   (source)
  • They rode in the caboose, the small red cupola-topped car jerked along at the end of the train.†   (source)
  • It looks well, by moonlight; how the tin of the cupola glistens!†   (source)
  • It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.†   (source)
  • 'While I was musing upon these things, my attention was attracted by a pretty little structure, like a well under a cupola.†   (source)
  • The elevator, with its cupola on the ridge of a shingled roof, resembled a broad-shouldered man with a small, vicious, pointed head.†   (source)
  • And once in the Shuman home, which was a large old-fashioned square frame house with a square cupola, very retired among some trees and a lawn, they made themselves at home in a general living room which was much more handsomely furnished than any home with which Clyde had been identified heretofore.†   (source)
  • …ran along the railroad tracks, following the valley's axis, but then turned left and crossed the narrow tracks and a brook; and they were now trotting up a gently rising road in the direction of wooded slopes and a low, outcropping meadow where an elongated building stood, its facade turned to the southwest, topped by a copper cupola, and arrayed with so many balconies that, from a distance as the first lights of evening were being lit, it looked as pockmarked and porous as a sponge.†   (source)
  • And the central square of the town occupied by the old and yet not ungraceful county courthouse, a cupola with a clock and some pigeons surmounting it, the four principal business streets of the small town facing it.†   (source)
  • Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.†   (source)
  • Like the others, it was rimmed with bronze, curiously wrought, and protected by a little cupola from the rain.†   (source)
  • …inside—how the porter asked them all for money, and got sixpence from the gentleman and five greasy halfpence from the fat widow—and how the carriage at length drove away—now threading the dark lanes of Aldersgate, anon clattering by the Blue Cupola of St. Paul's, jingling rapidly by the strangers' entry of Fleet-Market, which, with Exeter 'Change, has now departed to the world of shadows—how they passed the White Bear in Piccadilly, and saw the dew rising up from the market-gardens of…†   (source)
  • The cupola of the cathedral, which is seen at its best from the bridge about twenty paces from the chapel, glittered in the sunlight, and in the pure air every ornament on it could be clearly distinguished.†   (source)
  • The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge, and loaded with mouldings.†   (source)
  • On the right side of the warm church, in the crowd of frock coats and white ties, uniforms and broadcloth, velvet, satin, hair and flowers, bare shoulders and arms and long gloves, there was discreet but lively conversation that echoed strangely in the high cupola.†   (source)
  • They left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weathercock-surmounted cupola, on the roof, and a bell hanging in it.†   (source)
  • It was a fine day, and I remember to-day, as though I saw it now, how the incense rose from the censer and softly floated upwards and, overhead in the cupola, mingled in rising waves with the sunlight that streamed in at the little window.†   (source)
  • For as in landscape gardening, a spire, cupola, monument, or tower of some sort, is deemed almost indispensable to the completion of the scene; so no face can be physiognomically in keeping without the elevated open-work belfry of the nose.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the graveyard stood a stone church with a green cupola where he used to go to mass two or three times a year with his father and mother, when a service was held in memory of his grandmother, who had long been dead, and whom he had never seen.†   (source)
  • On the tops of the columns was reared a dome or cupola, resembling in shape an inverted tea-cup without its bottom, from the centre of which projected a spire, or shaft of wood, transfixed with two iron rods, that bore on their ends the letters N. S. E. and W, in the same metal.†   (source)
  • Before her the grimy cupolas and towering square walls of the city loomed up.†   (source)
  • The dome was false, designed to be seen from below like the cupolas of Chambord.†   (source)
  • It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street.†   (source)
  • In fact, her house had more of everything than the mansion, or any other house in town for that matter, more cupolas and turrets and towers and balconies and lightning rods and far more windows with colored panes.†   (source)
  • In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her gray springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days—such as that day—when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth.†   (source)
  • She showed him an Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets.†   (source)
  • And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Under-world.†   (source)
  • Now, many bungalows cluster near it, but when this story begins only the cupolas of a dozen old villas rotted like water lilies among the massed pines between Gausse's Hôtel des Étrangers and Cannes, five miles away.†   (source)
  • Fore and aft stood two cupolas of moderate height, their sides slanting and partly inset with heavy biconvex glass, one reserved for the helmsman steering the Nautilus, the other for the brilliance of the powerful electric beacon lighting his way.†   (source)
  • The dull brick walls, which here and there made a grand, straight sweep; the ugly little cupolas of the wings, the deep-set windows, the long, steep pinnacles of mossy slate, all mirrored themselves in the tranquil river.†   (source)
  • Moscow seen from the Poklonny Hill lay spaciously spread out with her river, her gardens, and her churches, and she seemed to be living her usual life, her cupolas glittering like stars in the sunlight.†   (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)
  • When on the first day he got up early, went out of the shed at dawn, and saw the cupolas and crosses of the New Convent of the Virgin still dark at first, the hoarfrost on the dusty grass, the Sparrow Hills, and the wooded banks above the winding river vanishing in the purple distance, when he felt the contact of the fresh air and heard the noise of the crows flying from Moscow across the field, and when afterwards light gleamed from the east and the sun's rim appeared solemnly from…†   (source)
  • When on the first day he got up early, went out of the shed at dawn, and saw the cupolas and crosses of the New Convent of the Virgin still dark at first, the hoarfrost on the dusty grass, the Sparrow Hills, and the wooded banks above the winding river vanishing in the purple distance, when he felt the contact of the fresh air and heard the noise of the crows flying from Moscow across the field, and when afterwards light gleamed from the east and the sun's rim appeared solemnly from behind a cloud, and the cupolas and crosses, the hoarfrost, the distance and the river, all began to sparkle in the glad light——Pierre felt a new joy and strength in life such as he had never before known.†   (source)
  • The cupola sank slowly beyond the trees, with the round face of the clock far enough yet.†   (source)
  • I could see the white cupola, the round stupid assertion of the clock.†   (source)
  • It crossed the hill, then descended winding, carrying the eye, the mind on aheadbeneath a still green tunnel, and the square cupola above the trees and the round eye of the clock but far enough.†   (source)
  • The great oven is not so wide, by ten paces, as the cupola at St. Paul's: for I measured the latter on purpose, after my return.†   (source)
  • …of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.†   (source)
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