These are rather like João de Ruão's pulpit at Coimbra in outline, but supported on a large capital are quite Gothic, as are the large canopies which rise above them.
On the outer side of each window is a twisted shaft with another between them, and from the top of these shafts grow round branches forming an arch over each window, and twining up above them in interlacing curves.
Above them, along the ridge top, was moving an army.
With gleaming muskets and gleaming swords and with the stars and stripes above them, they advanced, huzzaing.
The men, climbing from the Shenandoah, saluting their general, above themthere in the wind and the rain, thought the voice with which he answered them unusually gentle.
Above them, on that plateau, ranged beneath the stars and bars, there awaited the impact six thousand and five hundred Confederates with sixteen guns.
The old corbel-tables under the eaves remain throughout the east end; but the wall has been raised above them with a line of pierced quatrefoils, over which the rough timbers of the roof project.
The arches, of which four spring from each capital, are all of the round horseshoe form; above them is a string-course, and all the intermediate walls are carried up to the same height as the main walls.
Above them there is a string-course, and then the vault, which rises to a point in the centre, and is not a complete octagon, the cardinal sides being much wider than the others.
The transepts do not, however, show much on the exterior, as they form the base of the towers which are erected, as at Exeter cathedral, above them.
Up from the hollow below them came a faint strain of music, a very light sound that was drowned a moment later by the solemn rushing of the wind through the great trees above them.
And there, brought face to face with the mortal question, even her fear burned low in her, and once more she remembered the youth who would not leave her in the snow, but held her in his arms with the strange cross above them.
Above them in the sky the thunder rode; the rain whipped against the rocks like the rattle of a thousand flying hoofs; and now and again the lightning flashed across the sky.
Hence he is set in opposition to those high priests that had infirmities, that were not holy, and upon this very account preferred above them.
Their fetters cannot spirits tame, Nor tie up God from me; My faith and hope they cannot lame, Above them I shall be.
By an extraordinary and daring feat of engineering skill, they were able to do so without disturbing the triforium and clerestory above them.
Above them is a plain battlement, with two rows of ornament below it, and three figures in each bay above it.
Above them is a passage running round the whole chapter-house and passing behind the vaulting shafts and through the masses of masonry between the windows.
Round these outer arches is a mass of pinnacles, with three larger, richly-ornamented pinnacles, and two smaller, above them.
There are some persons who, if they did know their inferiors and themselves, would be ashamed to be above them.
We can be but a very few leagues from the falls, still fewer from the Indian villages above them.
As they neared the bank their occupants saw that the usual sleepy evening stillness was not upon the village above them.
Gold and silver make the feet stand sure: but wise counsel is above them both.
Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both.
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
Above them, Petra silently flew the plane and flashed messages on the screens.
Above them, the stone caryatids smiled down, their pale faces timeless and ethereal.
Above them banks of floodlights were creating heavy shadows around the office, and out there somewhere, she realized, was the prototype.
The mice are an enlightened people, and the mouse-king is above them all.
Above them, on laths and perches, were more than a hundred pigeons, who all seemed to be asleep, although they moved slightly when the two little girls came near them.
Above them floated a peculiar flag, a field of deep blue on which was a crescent moon and stars.
The common mill girls--were they not all looking at her, were they not all wondering, did they not all despise her, her who by birth and breeding should be above them?
It is therefore absurd to say that the Good, which is above them, seeks other higher good beyond itself.
Sir 40:20 Wine and musick rejoice the heart: but the love of wisdom is above them both.
Sir 40:18 To labour, and to be content with that a man hath, is a sweet life: but he that findeth a treasure is above them both.
Sir 40:21 The pipe and the psaltery make sweet melody: but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
Sir 40:26 Riches and strength lift up the heart: but the fear of the Lord is above them both: there is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek help.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "above them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
