She pointed to the great works near the river, the famous Saguntine potteries, which revealed, between clay walls, the cupolas of its ovens like enormous red bee-hives.
The buildings, within which the springs are enclosed, are surmounted by small cupolas with windows.
Not far from the column is a neat little mosque, whose countless towers and cupolas are ornamented with gilt metal balls, which glitter and glisten like so many stars in the heavens.
Instead of handsome cupolas and minarets, it consists of a moderate sized tower, rising from an octagon building; the tower has a considerable resemblance to those of the Hindoo temples.
Three lightly arched and lofty cupolas cover the principal building, small towers adorn the corners, and two high minarets stand at the sides.
The drum (tamburo) of these cupolas is generally octagonal, as in the cathedral of Florence, and with similar round windows in its sides.
This may explain the decidedly Lombardo-Bramantesque tendency in the style of these studies, among which only a few remind us of the forms of the cupolas of S.
Among several studies for the construction of cupolas above a Greek cross there are some in which the forms are decidedly monotonous.
The dome is to this day one of the most wonderful cupolas ever constructed, and with its two smaller domes might well attract the attention and study of a never resting genius such as Leonardo.
The Salute, with its cupolas and volutes, loomed spectral in at the windows; the moonlight spread in a soft, shining carpet to their feet.
The church of the Salute, with its cupolas and volutes, stared in at the long windows, white, luminous, spectral.
The lofty and battlemented centre and the noble cupolas give it a character among our Lancashire mansions quite unique.
Its cupolas I raised up to heaven, and its roofs I built entirely of brick.
Others are broad and huge, with great cupolas above them, and, far up, wooden galleries running round them.
But the smoke rises from household fires; the cupolas are cupolas of churches; and the bells are the bells of Cattaro, calling from this vale of enchantment to the cannon which are thundering before Scutari beyond the mountains of Montenegro.
And now surely faint outlines are becoming visible, as of turrets and cupolas striving to break in glory through the mist.
Opposite to me, at the edge of Stamboul, the huge Mosque of Yeni-Valide-Jamissi rose, with its crowd of cupolas large and small and its prodigious minarets.
This immense vault is covered with a series of cupolas of a modified form which finally take the feature of the early development of the ogival arch.
Including its sustaining wall, one of the cupolas rises to a height of eighty-two feet, and the other to one hundred and five feet.
As the most notable and peculiar details of the interior, will be remarked the cupolas of the roof, and the lantern at the crossing, which is pierced by twelve windows.
Mark's at Venice must have been in his eye when he designed his church, and the crowd of cupolas which form its roof remind one forcibly of its most distinguishing feature.
The embossed and crocketed cupolas which crown the towers of Saint Gatien are not very pure in taste; but, like a good many impurities, they have a certain character.
Sometimes Venice will appear blue and rosy, the smooth sea as green as in Canaletto's pictures, the white cupolas of Santa Maria della Salute and the silver domes of St. Mark's standing out as on an azure background.
The morning sun poured down upon a vast, hanging space of which you can have no conception, and rising up on every side from snowy-white ramparts were towers and cupolas with gilded roofs which blazed like gold.
So high was the roof on which we stood that only one of the towers or cupolas rose much above us.
Still farther off, misty towers with minarets and domes, cupolas and spires, smoking chimneys, and the outline of a broad river.
There, on the opal-blue horizon, loomed a town of minarets and pinnacles, of cupolas and obelisks, surrounded with golden walls.
The clouds had dispersed, and it had cleared up completely; the leaves, the frozen puddles and the gilt crosses and cupolas of the monastery glittered brightly in the sun that had risen above the forest.
Fields now lay stretched along both sides of the road, and the crosses and cupolas of a monastery appeared in the distance.
And she pointed to a beautiful building on a height, whose gilded cupolasand marble minarets were sparkling in the sunshine.
The villages naturally become more populous as we advance, and gilded domes and cupolas occasionally loom up above the tree-tops on either side of the road, indicating a Greek church here and there amid isolated communities.
It was really truly 'fantastical' from the airiness of its littlecupolas and galleries, and was in tolerable order.
English in character, while on the other hand it is a northern representative of a class of bulbous spires which are as much cupolas as spires, and were probably often intended as fantastic domes.
These, although later found all across Europe, from Russia to Belgium, were never naturalised in England on a large scale, our nearest approach to them being in the ogee cupolas of small turrets and lanterns and some of Wren's spires.
On the other side of the sheet of water shone the cupolas of the Casino and the many Monte Carlo hotels, with their multi-colored facades, the windows of their balconies and belvideres.
Various green and yellow cupolas of different sizes revealed the existence of the latter, rising above the upper balustrade.
Any cupolas constructed nowadays would be of steel, either forged or cast, and would probably be face-hardened, but a large number of those extant are of compound or even of iron armour.
The majority of the cupolas to be found in continental forts are not, however, of very recent date, those erected in 1894 at Molsheim near Strassburg being comparatively modern instances.
The cupolas that we have examined in this article have been constructed on the hypothesis than an enemy will not be able to bring into the field guns of much greater caliber than 6 inches.
These explosions were due to the bursting of five four-twenty shells which demolished straightway the three cupolas of the Grand Jonas and the two cupolas of the Petit Jonas.
His solution was of the most brilliant kind, and seen from the river the grouping of the several blocks with the colonnade and cupolas of the two central ones is admirable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cupolas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
