The tablet is placed over the doorways and extends the whole length of the room, forty-three feet; only a part, however, is shown in the cut.
The house was divided in its length, that is, from side to side, by a wall, in which several doorways were left as a means of communication with the back room where they slept.
Goats about thedoorways browse; Night-hawks nest in the burnt roof-tree, Home of the wild bird and home of the bee.
A noteworthy peculiarity of the doorways in the upper stories leading toward the rearward storerooms already described was that they were often made T-shape; that is, very narrow at the bottom and abruptly widened at the top.
Yea, and through the windows and doorways of all the six chambers encircling, and at each portal, the Sálamopia of the region it pertained and led unto took his station.
The same words took the boys past the Lightning, the Snakes, and the Wind, and they entered the house, going through four doorways before coming to the living-rooms in the interior.
Its huge sides seemed to be made exclusively of great doorways now tightly closed.
The narrow streets and alleys were already dark, but the air of excitement which I had noticed in the morning still marked the townsfolk, of whom a great number were strolling abroad, or standing in doorways talking to their gossips.
The three western doorways and the pointed doorway in the south transept are later than the choir;[222] they present the finest examples in Great Britain of the use of coloured stones in the construction.
The present north and south doorways in the choir are modern, although the south one is in the position of the old doorway.
There is a north porch, and two doorwaysfrom the cloister on the south side.
The doorways are generally of the old round-headed form, with late foliage and enrichments.
The crowd had melted away into the houses, and were now standing at doorways and windows, ready for instant retreat.
People ran from the doorways and sidewalks, but stayed at a comfortable distance until the moose was dragged down; then they made to approach the insensible man.
In this case these doorways are of the nondescript variety commonly accepted as base Gothic, but hardly warranting even such a term of endearment.
The western doorways are thoroughly Renaissance, both inside and out, while the portals themselves offer a livid suggestion as to what they might have been, were all the bare niches and blocks filled and mounted with worthy statues.
Such a range of elaborated doorways is hardly to be found in such luxuriance elsewhere, though the fact that there are five in all, standing grandly in a row, is perhaps not unique of itself.
Its portals are of good design, and so also is such sculpture as survived the ravages of the past, though the outlines of the doorways are severely plain.
Footnote 32: Some of the doorways were filled with rude masonry; evidently the rooms were thus closed in some instances before the buildings were deserted.
Doorways of Cliff Palace have two forms, rectangular and T-shaped, the latter generally opening on the second story or in such a position that they were approached by ladders or notched logs.
There are doorways in walls of one of these rooms, but entrance may have been gained by means of hatchways.
Generally the tops of both doorways and windows are narrower than the bottoms, the sides being slightly inclined; but the lower part is rarely narrower than the top.
As door openings are regularly situated high above the floor, there may have been ladders by which the doorways of the second and third stories were reached.
Many of these chambers were without doorways or windows; they were not limited to storage of corn, but served for the preservation of any food products or valuable cult paraphernalia.
Walls and ceilings and doorways of this miniature city of perpetual night are sooty and black with the fumes of the lamps the Christians used.
A fire burned brightly before the doorway as it did before otherdoorways in the village.
In the Renaissance period the Italian doors are quite simple, their architects trusting more to the doorways for effect; but in France and Germany the contrary is the case, the doors being elaborately carved, especially in the Louis XIV.
In France, during the Gothic period, the several orders were carved with figure sculpture, as also the door jambs; and the great recessing of these doorways brought them more into the categories of porches.
In the doorways of enclosures or screen walls there was no lintel, but a small projection inwards at the top, to hold the pivot of the door.
All the doorways mentioned above have cornices, and in those at Palmyra and Baalbec richly carved friezes with side corbels.
The doorways of Venice are remarkable in this respect.
The deeply recessed Norman doorways in English work required a great thickness of wall, and this was sometimes obtained by an addition outside, as at Iffley, Adel, Kirkstall and other churches.
The dimensions of some of the Roman doorways are enormous; in the temple of the Sun at Palmyra the doorway is 15 ft.
In the Byzantine doorways at Sta Sophia, Constantinople, a bold convex moulding and a hollow take the place of the fasciae of the classic architrave.
At Como the two side doorways of the cathedral, one of which is said to be by Bramante, are of great beauty, and the same rich decoration is found throughout Spain and France.
These doorways are placed in a rectangular recess roofed with the stalactite vault.
The doorways were crowded, and the windows dense with eager faces peering out of the draped bunting.
Although the interior is almost free of ornament, the art of the sculptor has been employed upon the enrichment of the outside niches, of the doorways and windows, and of the mouldings of the false arcade.
Similar doorways are conspicuous on the northern and southern sides.
He speaks of three doorways and of the marvellous dome, reproducing the appearance of the sky.
If you are fortunate enough to have a little Spanish, your enjoyment will be enhanced by stopping at humble doorways for a bit of chat with Juan Bautista the woodchopper, or Maria Rosalía the laundress.
You can, if you choose, easily climb to some of them, and stooping through the small doorways get a taste of what it was like to be a cliff dweller.
One of the most curious doorways of transitional vintage is the main south entrance to "Yeocomico Church" (1706), Westmoreland County.
When he went journeying apace, he rolled heavy logs against the doorways to keep out wild beasts and marauders.
The #Northern Alley# of the Cloister, running along the south wall of the church, contains little of interest, except the two doorways previously described.
Langley's two doorways have four centred arches enclosed beneath a square label moulding, with shields bearing the Cardinal's coat-of-arms in each spandrel.
There are two doorways into the south aisle, one, known as the Monks' Door, opening from the western portion of the cloisters and immediately opposite the north porch just described.
The architectural features of the doorway would, however, seem to contradict this theory, and there is little room to doubt that both north and south doorways formed part of the original design of the structure.
This was, however, closed up by Cardinal Langley, who constructed the two doorways at the end of the aisles by which the chapel is now entered.
The four doorwaysare ogee-headed, with crockets and finials.
Rufus also replaced the then existing north and south doorways of the nave, by those standing to-day.
Looking through the doorways and not seeing among the members of the Royal Family and others, his wife, he was going to ask about her when a glance from the Queen stopped him.
At the doorways young officers, full of ardor and courage, rejoiced in the riots which gave them a chance to show their military gifts as at a tourney under view of their queens of beauty.
The arches of the doorways may be made with a big bit (1-3/8") or a scroll saw.
The portion cut off between the doorways can be sawed with the tip of the back-saw if the board is laid flat on the bench-hook.
In the Rue du Chateau, the aristocratic quarter, are many spacious domains with doorways surmounted by coats of arms and coronets.
One of the stately old doorways remains; but it is only that which leads to the castle keep--the main entrance must have fallen with the walls centuries ago.
Over the doorways of the shops hang branches of withered mistletoe.
Very old walls they are, with here and there ancient carved doorways breaking the straight monotony.
The doorways of the room were filled by the women-servants of the hotel.
At the doorways the worker in brass and silver hammered away at his metal, a sleepy, musical assonance.
We watched them disappear through one of the large round doorwaysinto the home now desolate for ever.
Gothic cloisters and Norman doorways mingled their outlines in close companionship without rivalry, and the beholder was charmed at finding himself in an element where nothing jarred.
Other fine doorways lead into the interior of the church.
Large circular doorways led to wonderful interiors; immense living-rooms in semi-obscurity; rich dark walls whose colour and tone were due to smoke and age.
It was a capacious room, not unlike an English baronial hall, the doorways and windows were furnished with old Gobelin tapestry and the heavy furniture was of mahogany, imported when France drew generously on her colonies.
Yes; I am the lover whom you cast off in favor of the student Ruprecht, as this Clemenceau was called when he pottered about Europe, sketching ruined doorways and broken windows and dreamed of architectural structures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doorways" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
