From these particulars, it appears that the edifices must have been spacious and magnificent.
Among other public edifices at Boulogne, there is an hospital, or workhouse, which seems to be established upon a very good foundation.
The palaces are like “a reduced copy of the great royaledifices of the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates.
Builds monasteries and many splendidedifices for the new faith.
If this be doubted, we must be prepared to show that such efforts of art as the edifices of Chehl-Menar could have started at once into existence, as if by enchantment.
There are few ancient edifices in Great Britain, now in ruins, which attract so much attention from the curious traveller as Tintern Abbey, on the Wye.
In fact, it is generally found that the arches of ancient edifices are the parts of the masonry which are the last to fall.
Those of a later date, with the exception of some few edifices on ancient models, are, alas!
In 1909 a private mansion worthy of its neighbour edifices was built on the site.
There are temples of every shape in all stages of completion and dilapidation, and at all angles of inclination; for the banks give way so much that many of these edifices are fearfully out of the perpendicular.
To this commendable custom is no doubt to be attributed the good condition in which the religiousedifices were found by the Conquerors.
The island of Cozumel was especially devoted to religious observances, and was annually visited by great numbers of pilgrims; there were therefore more religious edifices here than elsewhere.
In looking into one of theseedifices a stranger would be apt to conclude that they were Polytheists, which I do not understand to be the case.
The superb edifices which he had commenced were abandoned by the builders; the benefits which had been heaped upon him in the past were changed into injuries, honours into insults.
Monks pulled down or defaced the edifices and statues raised by genius, and the beautiful temple of Apollo gave place to the cells of Benedict on the summit of Monte Cassino.
When the English arrived the 6th Legion had been gone for upwards of a century and a half, the place had been frequently pillaged, the walls were broken down in several places, and the beautiful Roman edifices were in ruins.
Famine was frequent, theedifices were exposed to ruin, and the chief person in the city was the Bishop, who exulted over the desolation of idolatry.
This is a splendid modern four-story building of brick, stone and steel, with two artistic towers reaching a height of 125 feet, making it one of the most imposing edifices in the City.
There are in both public and private edifices many examples of the finest modern architecture and construction, some rising many stories above the two-and three-storied buildings characteristic of former years.
Some of the public edifices are built of Onondaga limestone, quarried a few miles out of the city.
Its churches, banks, hospitals and colleges are all edifices of which to be proud.
Philadelphia may have less elegant public and business edificesthan New York, but her dwelling houses stand as far more desirable monuments to the prosperity of a people than the splendor united with the squalor of the metropolis.
The city of Montreal is distinctly outlined against Mount Royal or Mont Real, which rises back of it, itsedifices showing dark and gray, except where the sun catches its numerous tin roofs, making them glitter like burnished steel.
Its business is not so extended or so important as that of New York, nor, as a rule, are its business edifices so imposing, though some of them present a very fine appearance.
The building, which was one of the costliest edifices of Charleston, was destroyed by the great fire of 1861, and the walls, turrets and niches still standing are exceedingly picturesque.
The Jewish Temple, at the corner of Seventeenth and Pine streets, is one of the finest religiousedifices in the city.
One of the finest church edificesin the Dominion is the Jarvis street Baptist Church, in the decorated Gothic style.
The Capitol is considered one of the largest and finest edifices of the kind in the world, and in point of durability of structure and costliness of material, it certainly has no superior.
The former is entirely devoted to trade, while church edifices are found in the latter.
The streets are narrow, and overshadowed as they are by edifices six or more stories in height, seem to be dwarfed into mere alley-ways.
Ever since Canada has passed into the hands of England they still hold their own, and exercise an influence over the people, and display a magnificence in their edifices and appointments, unknown in other sections of America.
We believe that it has as many edifices occupied for religions purposes as the city of Mexico.
There are a number of important edifices in the city, among which is the municipal palace, the cathedral, and the mint.
The state and government buildings, the mint with its low, square tower, and a few other edifices are large and handsome structures.
Puebla, Guadalajara, and the city of Mexico contain cathedrals which will compare favorably even with those of continental Spain, where the most elaborate and costly religious edifices in the world are to be seen to-day.
Probably, in laying out a town, the originators first select this important centre, and then all other avenues, streets, and edifices are made to conform to this location.
Our master minds built their theoretic edificesupon the rock of fact, the quantity of fact necessary to enable them to divine the law being a measure of individual genius, and not a test of philosophic system.
At the base of one of these edifices Bennen paused and looked closely at the grand mass; he wiped his forehead, and turning to me said, 'Was denken Sie, Herr?
The ultimate plan of the village with streets and edifices has already been mapped out, and the patients are continually occupied in erecting new buildings, etc.
Tiffany, it is one of the most beautiful of all the city's edifices for religious worship.
The vast, expensiveedifices of public welcome in the neighbourhood of the Plaza as "something rather on the order of Claridge's and the Carlton.
These majestic edifices were associated with the memory of those who had done with time, and might assist him in the time-annihilating process which was then his chief object.
It was easily found, and Maurice stood before one of the most sumptuous of the magnificent edifices which adorn that aristocratic locality.
Though I do not mean to say that the congregations do not "enjoy their religion " in their splendid edifices which cost so much money and are really so beautiful.
Nothing is so beautiful as springing, changing flame,--it was the last freak of the Gothic architecture men to represent the fronts of elaborate edifices of stone as on fire, by the kindling flamboyant devices.
A conspicuous building is a large market-house shingled all over (as many of the public buildings are), and this and other cheap public edifices stand in the midst of a large square, which is surrounded by shabby shops for the most part.
Rich people who may have endowed or founded sacred edifices are buried in an arched recess of the abbey or church they have benefited.
Like their brothers of Ireland, the fishermen of Wales assert that at low tide they can see the ruins of ancient edifices far down beneath the clear waters of the bay.
The temples and public edifices gave up their national peculiarities for manners of building characteristic of Greece and Rome.
But we are acquainted only with those places of worship which stood in immediate connection with the palaces, no traces of edifices for general and popular worship having been discovered up to the present time.
Rising up in the midst of the verdure are the white lines of the negro cottages and the plantation offices and sugar-houses, which look like large public edifices in the distance.
Ottilio had, perhaps with a little malice, arranged the napkins in a most artistic and intricate fashion; these edifices so impressed my friends that they did not sit down opposite to their plates but on one side of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "edifices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
