All 50 Uses of "capitol" in "The Lost Symbol" - Auto-generated

Your guest, Mr. Langdon, has arrived, and I will deliver him to the Capitol Building by seven P.M. You're welcome, sir.†

Chpt 1-2

capitol = the main building (or buildings) of government

The U.S. Capitol was a half hour away, and he appreciated the time alone to gather his thoughts.†

Chpt 1-2 *

Ten miles from the Capitol Building, a lone figure was eagerly preparing for Robert Langdon's arrival.†

Chpt 1-2

The luminous dome of the U.S. Capitol glowed with solemn power against the dark winter sky.†

Chpt 1-2

As Mal'akh exited his home, he prepared himself for the event that would soon shake the U.S. Capitol Building.†

Chpt 1-2

I woke up this morning anticipating a quiet Sunday at home ...and now I'm a few minutes away from the U.S. Capitol.†

Chpt 3-4

The U.S. Capitol Building stands regally at the eastern end of the National Mall, on a raised plateau that city designer Pierre L'Enfant described as "a pedestal waiting for a monument."†

Chpt 3-4

The Capitol's massive footprint measures more than 750 feet in length and 350 feet deep.†

Chpt 3-4

The new security checkpoint for tourists entering the Capitol Building is located deep within the recently completed subterranean visitor center, beneath a magnificent glass skylight that frames the Capitol Dome.†

Chpt 3-4

The new security checkpoint for tourists entering the Capitol Building is located deep within the recently completed subterranean visitor center, beneath a magnificent glass skylight that frames the Capitol Dome.†

Chpt 3-4

Child's play, Mal'akh thought as he moved past Nuñez and up the escalator toward the Capitol Building.†

Chpt 3-4

Six miles away, Mal'akh was moving through the corridors of the U.S. Capitol Building with a cell phone pressed to his ear.†

Chpt 5-6

Robert Langdon felt a sudden wave of anxiety as his driver parked on First Street, a good quarter mile from the Capitol Building.†

Chpt 5-6

The Capitol Visitor Center had been a costly and controversial project.†

Chpt 5-6

The Capitol Visitor Center was not at all what he had expected.†

Chpt 5-6

He gazed up through the rain-speckled glass ceiling at the mountainous form of the illuminated Capitol Dome overhead.†

Chpt 5-6

Langdon always found it ironic that the workers who hoisted each piece of the nineteen-and-a-half-foot bronze statue to her perch were slaves—a Capitol secret that seldom made the syllabi of high school history classes.†

Chpt 5-6

The ghost of a worker who fell from the Capitol Dome during construction was seen wandering the corridors with a tray of tools.†

Chpt 5-6

And, of course, the most famous apparition of all, reported numerous times in the Capitol basement—an ephemeral black cat that prowled the substructure's eerie maze of narrow passageways and cubicles.†

Chpt 5-6

"U.S. Capitol!" dozens of voices called out in unison.†

Chpt 5-6

The mural portrays the Father of Our Country using a tripod and pulley to lay the cornerstone of our Capitol Building on September 18, 1793, between the hours of eleven fifteen and twelve thirty.†

Chpt 5-6

But that whole thing about the Capitol cornerstone being laid while Caput Draconis was in Virgo—who cares?†

Chpt 5-6

An impressive coincidence considering that the cornerstones of the three structures that make up Federal Triangle—the Capitol, the White House, the Washington Monument—were all laid in different years but were carefully timed to occur under this exact same astrological condition.†

Chpt 5-6

The tolling of a clock began echoing through the Capitol corridors.†

Chpt 5-6

Robert Langdon had entered the Capitol Rotunda many times in his life, but never at a full sprint.†

Chpt 9-10

Admittedly, the object on the Capitol floor was odd, but its presence hardly warranted screaming.†

Chpt 9-10

Capitol police chief Trent Anderson had overseen security in the U.S. Capitol Complex for over a decade.†

Chpt 11-12

Capitol police chief Trent Anderson had overseen security in the U.S. Capitol Complex for over a decade.†

Chpt 11-12

Anderson spent the majority of his time coordinating his small army of police officers from a high-tech surveillance center in the basement of the Capitol.†

Chpt 11-12

Thirty seconds later, at a quiet exit on the east side of the Capitol, the powerfully built blond man in the blue blazer stepped into the damp night air.†

Chpt 11-12

Mal'akh had played his cards artfully within the Capitol Building, showing obeisance to all the ancient etiquettes.†

Chpt 11-12

For Robert Langdon, the Capitol Rotunda—like St. Peter's Basilica—always had a way of taking him by surprise.†

Chpt 13-14

Capitol police officers were sealing the Rotunda while attempting to herd distraught tourists away from the hand.†

Chpt 13-14

Mal'akh's stretch limousine eased away from the U.S. Capitol, moving eastward down Independence Avenue.†

Chpt 13-14

Police officers who worked near Capitol Hill were never certain what power broker they might mistakenly pull over in a limousine, and so most simply chose not to take the chance.†

Chpt 13-14

Security chief Trent Anderson stormed back toward the Capitol Rotunda, fuming at the failure of his security team.†

Chpt 15-16

In fifteen years on security detail for the Capitol Building, he had seen some strange things.†

Chpt 15-16

Anderson could not fathom why they would be interested in this incident at the Capitol, or how they had found out so fast.†

Chpt 15-16

For all Anderson knew, they had a direct feed of U.S. Capitol security cameras.†

Chpt 15-16

Then might I ask what the hell it's doing in the middle of the U.S. Capitol?†

Chpt 17-18

"This man who called me," Langdon told Sato, "was the only one who knew I was coming to the Capitol tonight, so whoever informed you I was here tonight, that's your man.†

Chpt 19-20

This is the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building, Professor, not some sacred shrine to ancient mystical secrets.†

Chpt 19-20

Sato looked doubtful that Rome's virginal guardians of the flame had anything to do with the U.S. Capitol Building.†

Chpt 19-20

You're not alone, Langdon thought, imagining the thousands of people every day, including famous lawmakers, who strode across the center of the Rotunda having no idea there was once a day when they would have plunged down into the Capitol Crypt—the level beneath the Rotunda floor.†

Chpt 19-20

In the U.S. Capitol?†

Chpt 19-20

The Apotheosis of Washington—a 4,664-square-foot fresco that covers the canopy of the Capitol Rotunda—was completed in 1865 by Constantino Brumidi.†

Chpt 21-22

Known as "The Michelangelo of the Capitol," Brumidi had laid claim to the Capitol Rotunda in the same way Michelangelo had laid claim to the Sistine Chapel, by painting a fresco on the room's most lofty canvas—the ceiling.†

Chpt 21-22

Known as "The Michelangelo of the Capitol," Brumidi had laid claim to the Capitol Rotunda in the same way Michelangelo had laid claim to the Sistine Chapel, by painting a fresco on the room's most lofty canvas—the ceiling.†

Chpt 21-22

Brumidi, however, immigrated to America in 1852, abandoning God's largest shrine in favor of a new shrine, the U.S. Capitol, which now glistened with examples of his mastery—from the trompe l'oeil of the Brumidi Corridors to the frieze ceiling of the Vice President's Room.†

Chpt 21-22

And yet it was the enormous image hovering above the Capitol Rotunda that most historians considered to be Brumidi's masterwork.†

Chpt 21-22

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