At each of the four corners is a similar tower, and in each of the two sides are three large windows separated by buttresses like square towers.
The walls, pierced with small round-headed deep-set windows with sculptured arches resting on colonnettes, are supported by flat buttresses rising to the eaves.
The buttresses are shallow, and do not reach the eaves.
In the buttresses on the Euphrates at Babylon we find bricks which show that walls on the river commenced by Nabopolassar, and continued but not completed by Nebuchadnezzar, were carried on by Neriglissar.
The great extent of the building, the masses of its towers and walls, the cornices and mouldings, the buttresses and turrets, conceal all the contrivances which were resorted to in its construction.
It was like a fortress with its buttressesand ramparts carved by nature.
There were long lines of round buttresses and great concavities of rock, more like the famous Causses of southern France than anything I have ever seen.
The common terrestrial species is Anolis humilis uniformis; sometimes this small species perches or suns on the bases of small trees or buttresses of some large trees.
Individuals were most readily observed on the buttresses of some of the gigantic mahogany and ceiba trees.
Anolis lemurinus bourgeaei is about twice the size of Anolis humilis uniformis and is usually observed on buttresses of large trees or on the lower two meters of tree trunks.
Important herpetological habitats include the leaf litter, rotting stumps, and rotting tree trunks on the forest floor and the buttresses of many of the gigantic trees, especially Ceiba pentandra (Pl.
Anolis lemurinus bourgeaei lives on the bases and buttresses of large trees, from which it often descends to the ground.
At either side of bay window buttresses with moulded water-tables, plinths, &c.
From the centre of the roof carry up a square tower with battlemented parapets and pinnacles at all corners, and flyingbuttresses from the turrets of the main buildings.
In Iceland the walls of a house between the gables are buttressed with turf--thick walls or buttresses that project several feet, and are about six or nine feet thick.
Such buttresses stood one on each side of the hall door at Biarg, and behind one of these Thorbiorn concealed himself.
Between these rugged buttresses lie narrow valleys, now spreading into broad amphitheatres, now contracting into straightened ravines, winding upward to the passes across the mountain chain.
They left the car in the shade of a sandy lane, and clambered up the steep intricacies of sandstone, to a wide table-rock slipped from the hoary buttresses above.
The persuasive structure that Wells had erected foundbuttresses and foundations.
Then, by a process of dilapidation, these buttresses might easily be brought to assume in their perspective of ruin the forms indicated at B, which, with certain modifications, is the actual shape of the Chamouni aiguilles.
Let A be supposed to be a castle wall, with slightly elevated masses of square-built buttresses at intervals.
They perched upon sterlings and buttresses and along the slope of the embankment, gently occupied.
Hollow-backed buttressescarry vases, which figure for the stern lanterns.
In the town, in one of those little shops plastered like so many swallows' nests among the buttresses of the old Cathedral, that familiar autocrat, James VI.
On the north, behind the Palais de Justice and the belfry, stands St. Walburga, with the delicate tracery of her flying buttresses and her spire fine as a needle.
The east end is supported on two huge buttressesthat are pierced with arches for the roadway.
The buttresses are surmounted by pinnacles that are crowned with cupolas.
It has a gallery above the porch, another at the summit of the tower, and curious flying buttresses support the turrets at the angles, and a cupola in the centre surmounted by a lantern on three stages.
To support the gallery the angles of the tower are very massive, buttresses are added and between them the wall is reduced, and the gallery sustained on heavy corbels.
The main spire, with its flamboyant gallery, is corbelled out on the west gable and is tied by two flying buttresses to two smaller towers with spirelets.
In this way curious little alcoves are formed, in which are quiet bays of water, but on a much smaller scale than the great bays and buttresses of Marble Canyon.
The walls themselves are half a mile high, and these buttresses are on a corresponding scale, jutting into the river scores of feet.
Sometimes the streams in their curving have cut under the rocks, and overhanging cliffs of towering altitudes are seen; and somber chambers are found between buttresses that uphold the walls.
Softer beds give rise to a vertical structure of buttresses and columns, while the harder strata appear in great horizontal lines, suggesting architectural entablature.
The walls and buttresses and chambers are all of marble.
Without even noticing the request, Ulpius hurriedly proceeded to erase the drawings on the buttresses and the inscriptions on the table.
The thick buttresses that projected inwards from the walls, made visible by their prominence, displayed on their surfaces rude representations of idols and temples drawn in chalk, and covered with strange, mysterious hieroglyphics.
The walls are nearly four feet thick and the buttresses are sturdy in proportion.
At the corner of Bugle Street is the "Woolhouse," said to belong to the fourteenth century; very noticeable are the heavy buttresses that support this fine old house on its west side.
Its plan is as perfect as its simple but imposing architecture; the ecclesiastical appearance is heightened by the lancet windows between the heavy buttresses and the slight transeptal extensions that give the structure the form of a cross.
On the south side of the church the buttresses are enriched with canopies and other sculpture; and there was originally a highly-wrought balustrade, ornamented with figures of children, a part of which remains.
The northern one has obtuse angles, imperfectly defined; the southern has four projecting buttresses and four windows, alternating with each other.
The buttresses are also ornamented with tabernacles of saints at different heights; and one of the tabernacles upon each buttress, about mid-way up the tower, still retains a statue as large as life, of apparently good workmanship.
The central window is composed of five lancet divisions, supported upon slender pillars: massy buttresses of several splays bound it on either side.
On either side of the bay, there are flying buttresses of elaborate sculpture, spreading along the wall.
Narrow lancet-shaped windows took the place of the round arch; bold projecting buttresses were introduced; and the roofs and spires became more lofty and more pointed, while in the interiors pointed arches rested on lofty clustered pillars.
Longitudinal division of every trench, either by projecting buttresses of earth or by bends, so that no straight portion exceeds 10 yards in length.
Yet, strange to say, amid all this arctic repression the mountain pine on ledges and buttresses of Red Mountain seems to find the climate best suited to it.
Its walls were buttressesagainst which she could lean when she felt her weakness and longed for supporting strength.
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