They were in time to see another section of cornice break loose and fall to the ground.
The group paused as a section of building cornice crashed to the ground just outside.
With her back to the house she zigzagged her feet along the cornice to get away from the smoke, which now poured directly from the window.
A narrow ledge of cornice scarcely wide enough for her feet ran along the house to a distant balcony.
A deep drip should always be worked in the upper members of a cornice to prevent the rain trickling down and disfiguring the face of the moulding and the wall below (fig.
Blocking Course, a heavy course of stone above a cornice to form a parapet and weigh down the back of the cornice (fig.
Why, we have only torn off a small piece of the cornice and some of the eaves," said Jerry, pointing to where the damage had been done.
They were over a farmyard, and the anchor rope, to which was attached a grapple, with several prongs, had caught under the cornice of a large barn, holding the Comet securely.
Over these are richly-decorated windows, and above the cornice there are a balustrade and attic.
The chair rail I'm sure is original and the door trim, but the cornice I installed.
Chair rail, baseboard, and door trim in the room are thought to be original; but the ceiling cornice was added in 1942 and consists of double-ogee design over beaded plasterboard which is typical of the period of the house.
The entire room has a cornice molding of stained wood, matching the paneling used for the stairs, the fireplace, and the built-in cabinets flanking the fireplace.
The cornice in the living room is of cypress wood.
On the cornice was the inscription, [Greek: TARSEoN], filled in with bronze.
It forms a striking contrast to that of the tribune, where the projecting cornice rests upon two pillars, whereas the architrave, broken through by the doorway, is supported only by pilasters.
These pillars, as well as the fragments of the architrave and cornice supported by them, are among the most beautiful architectural remains of ancient Rome.
Each of these pilasters is decorated, on the side of the middle aisle, by two fluted pilasters, supporting a cornice which goes round the church.
The vaults, hewn in the tufa, with the traces of a cornice over the entrance arch, and the stump of a Doric column, are all that now remain.
They contain several antiques and remains of the cornice of Aurelian's Temple of the Sun.
The upper part of the Mamertine Prison was partly rebuilt in the time of Tiberius, as we know from an inscription remaining in the cornice over the flight of steps under the church.
The holes in the cornice with the corbels below them were to receive the masts that supported the velaria on the outside.
It is of travertine, with four large columns and six pilasters of the Composite order, which support a cornice surmounted by a balustrade, on which are placed colossal statues of Jesus and several saints.
The two porphyry columns and the cornice belong to the temple; but the bronze doors are Etruscan, having been sent from Perugia by Urban VIII.
Eustace watched it grimly as it hung on to the cornice with three fingers, flicking thumb and forefinger at him in an expression of scornful derision.
As we approached nearer, however, arches and lines of cornice could be discerned, and we recognized it as the celebrated amphitheatre, one of the grandest Roman relics in the south of France.
It is of circular form, surrounded by nineteen Corinthian columns, thirty-six feet in height; a clumsy tiled roof now takes the place of the elegant cornice which once gave the crowning charm to its perfect proportions.
Above thecornice on the southern side, stand twenty-five colossal statues of celebrated painters, by Schwanthaler.
Farmer and Brinley, the sculpture of the cornice by Mr. Armstead, and the alabaster and marble work by the Abbey masons, Henry Poole and Sons.
The whole is surmounted with a carved and sculptured cornice of bold proportions.
Above that range of pilasters is a cornice, and above the cornice four other smaller pilasters; and these support another cornice, which is divided into compartments to hold three little tablets that correspond to the spaces below.
The chapel, then, is supported at the corners by four large pilasters, which likewise uphold the great cornice that runs right round, over which curve four semicircular arches that lie in line with the pilasters.
On the side-walls are four other scenes, two to each wall, and each is divided off by the cornice that forms the impost of the arch upon which rests the groined vaulting of the chapel.
Then the pigeon flew toward the sea, and afterward, moving in a circle, returned to seek refuge in the cornice of the Casino.
To own sumptuous galleries, and live in an attic above the topmost arabesque cornice constructed of marble brought from the Morea --the land which a Memmius had marched over as conqueror in the time of the Romans!
In front every box is draped in the same way, with the same silk: from the cornice hang curtains, also all to match; and these remain drawn when the family to whom the box belongs is in mourning.
Anne sat in a low chair, with her chin in her hand, her elbow on her knee, and her gaze fixed intently on the cornice of the room.
The cornice was delicately traced against a pale-blue ceiling frescoed with silver, the most beautiful ceiling I have ever seen.
The Annunciation is a large relief, in which the angel and the Virgin are placed within an elaborately carved frame, while on the cornice above there are six children holding garlands.
There are fourteen of these boys, and they overstep the cornice like Michelozzo's angels in the Capella Portinari at Milan.
The four monks, who had leaned their heads against the cornice of the wide, closed fireplace and, in spite of the flies which buzzed around them, had fallen asleep, awoke.
Alternating with these are several filled with floriated ornament, having in their centres shields, continued also on the cornice above, displaying the descent and alliances of Lower.
A continuous cornice surmounts both tomb and doorway, of vine foliage and mouldings, crested originally by the Tudor flower, only a part of which now remains.
The single ornamental portion is the cornice or frieze toward the street, temp.
Round the wall ran a corniceof delicately wrought fan-work and foliage, and the ceiling of carved oak, assimilated perfectly with the rest of the edifice.
With the dome of St. Peter's resting on theircornice and the hugely clustered architecture of the Vatican rising from them as from a terrace, they seem indeed the valid bulwark of an ecclesiastical city.
Back of it rise other roads, the most picturesque of them being Altamont Road, which runs to the top of Red Mountain, reaching a height about equivalent to that of the cornice line of Birmingham's tallest building.
If it were Parisian, it would have more trees and the surrounding buildings would be uniform in color and in cornice height.
The illustration of a portion of a cornice of carved pinewood appearing as the headpiece to this chapter shows this tendency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
