This was no sooner done than from every part of the crowded edifice arose a loud and enthusiastic cry of 'God save the Queen,' mingled with lusty cheers, and accompanied by the waving of hats and handkerchiefs.
The quadrangular edifice in Lauriston, sometimes ascribed to Inigo Jones, is one of the noblest buildings in the city.
This edifice affords accommodation for the lecture rooms in the faculties of arts, law and theology, and for the museums and library.
He drew the attention of the others toward an edifice that reared at least two thousand feet into the sky a mile beyond the landing area, but which was connected with it by a long road or ramp.
It was rather symbolical in a way, Underwood thought, that such an imposing edifice should be appointed for the resurrection of the ancient Great One.
They were now in sight of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the church belonging to the Dominican convent; a brick edifice with a broad dome like a tent--the early work of Bramante.
He felt the edifice rocking under him, and the slender pinnacle towards which he was climbing bent like a reed.
To Lorenzo’s honour it must be said that he did all in his power to support the tottering edifice of concord.
When he, the experienced statesman, looked around him and surveyed the political condition of Italy, he was alarmed at the weak foundations of the edifice which it had cost him so much exertion to support by his counsels and actions.
In the whole region of Syria there is not a more stupendous or considerable edifice than this[140].
The Ephesians, it is related, when they first resolved to provide an edifice worthy of Diana, met to agree on importing materials.
The grace and lightness of the exterior of this edifice has induced several competent critics to call it "a perfect gem of art.
This edifice was upwards of one hundred and thirty cubits high; that is, one hundred and ninety-five feet.
This edifice was built, for the most part, of a very beautiful stone; but the frontispiece was of Parian marble, and the vestibule was decorated with paintings.
It is an edificethat seems to have been constructed for eternity.
The remains of this edifice are those which Wheler and all former travellers, excepting Chandler, have described as the theatre of Bacchus[64].
The Caaba; which the Mohammedans pretend was the first edifice built and appointed for the worship of GOD.
Order is that which makes, that all the parts of an Edifice have a convenient bigness, whether we consider them apart or with Relation to the whole.
The architect who first designed this structure, undoubtedly the finest Gothic edifice in the world, is not definitely known, though it is commonly supposed to be Meister Gerard, of Riehl, a small village near Cologne.
I shouldn't need it if I could have the regular Oshkosh sod-corn, but a foundation of vile English brandy, and the edifice built up and topped off with French cognac is too much for me.
The new Friedrichsbad is an imposing edifice built against the hillside upon which the springs are located.
The plans were then made out, and work on the beautiful edifice was pushed rapidly forward, and at length was so far completed that a date was set for the consecration.
One such edifice was always placed in the forum for the convenience of traders.
Then Jean Lamou, who has more in his hand than he can manage, has offered me the decoration of a palatial edifice that he is building for a great speculator, M.
Without an unkind thought the girl had shattered the edifice which he had built up with such care and pain.
The parish church of St Martin's is a handsome edifice rebuilt in 1873.
I reply, that it is a truth man has no idea of a future life; they are the ideas of the past and the present, that furnish his imagination with the materials of which he constructs the edifice of the regions of futurity.
The upper storeys of the old English edifice have been demolished and a new superstructure has been reared in their stead.
Thus, as we say, another course of the feudal edificeis constructed.
Intending to consecrate this edifice with great splendour at the Christmas of 1065, Edward summoned all the nobles and clergy to be present.
It is related that, when the foundations were dug, and the first stones of the edifice laid, the architects discovered that there would be a deficiency of water.
During the Conquest the edifice had met with rough treatment.
After flourishing for two hundred years, this edifice had suffered at the hand of King Kenneth, and gradually dwindled down to a chapel sacred to St. Cuthbert.
At the gates of this temple we were met by the goddess of it, who conducted us into that of Honour, which was joined to the other edifice by a beautiful triumphal arch, and had no other entrance into it.
Such as these I shall take particular care to place in safe custody, and have used all possible diligence to run up my edifice in Moorfields for that service.
The first great shock must always bring down a political edifice which rests not on its own foundations, but on external buttresses.
The Emperor had always professed that he was the elect of France, and would ultimately crown his political edifice with the corner-stone of constitutional liberty.
On the pediment of this edificeis inscribed, "All for the public good.
The flashy sensationalism of his policy, setting the tone for Parisian society, was fatal to the honest unseen drudgery which builds up a solid edifice alike in public and in private life.
The Third Universalist Church was organized in 1843, and the edifice known as Barristers' Hall was built for its use.
The Central Methodist Church occupied the edifice for a time, before they secured the building of the Third Baptist Society.
The edifice known as St. Mary's Church was built for this society.
In 1853, the society built another edificeon Paige Street.
The church edifice was built, in 1827, on land given by the Locks and Canals Company.
The edifice begun by Descartes has now been raised high and strong enough to have its layer of negations crowned with an affirmation of pre-eminent importance.
There is likewise an edifice in the Pueblo of Picuris[29] of the same class, and some of those of Moqui are also said to be similar.
The most splendid edifice in Chihuahua is the principal church, which is said to equal in architectural grandeur anything of the sort in the republic.
By the outlines still traceable amid the desolation which reigns around, it would appear that the plan of this edifice was conceived in a spirit of still greater magnificence than the Parroquia which I have been describing.
This edifice has also acquired considerable celebrity as having received within its gloomy embraces several of the most distinguished patriots, who were taken prisoners during the first infant struggles for Mexican independence.
Who was Mistress Holden, that she should be blessed among women by having her name spoken gratefully and the little edifice she caused to be erected preserved as her monument from generation to generation?
Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time?
But the portion of the edifice upon which particular care had been devoted, both in point of construction and ornamentation, was the tower of the belfry and the campanile, where hung the bell.
Furious at the intriguing viscount, he yet deplores the downfall of the edifice of which that individual was the keystone.
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