Mr. Honeyman comes up with a faint smile playing on his features, like moonlight on the facade of Lady Whittlesea's Chapel.
As long as the dome overawes, that facade is supportable.
I don't like to say that the facade of the church is ugly and obtrusive.
And from here we pass out upon the broad terrace of masonry, with a splendid flanking octagon tower, its base hidden in trees, a rich facade for a background, and below the town the river, and beyond the plain and floods of golden sunlight.
And yet he had agreed to paint him but the reason for doing so no facade of innocence could belie.
The longfacade was imposing, dignified, with a touch of conventionality and solidity in keeping with my standing in the city.
The hospital itself loomed up before me that Sunday morning as I approached it along Ballantyne Street, a diluted sunshine washing the extended, businesslike facade of grimy, yellow brick.
It represented the facade of a Venetian palace, skilfully constructed upon the model of the Parthenon, with Wolf Roth in an Indian canoe below, playing upon his guitar.
In an old rococo garden, with the brilliant facade of the Alhambra as its background, there is a gathering of gentlemen assembled to witness the rehearsal of a tragedy.
It consisted of a solid building (scena stabilis), representing the facade of a royal palace, and adorned with the richest architectural ornaments.
Thus, part of thefacade of the southeast side of the palace, forming apparently the grand entrance to the edifice, had been discovered.
On the four bulls of the facade were two inscriptions, one inscription being carried over each pair, and the two being precisely of the same import.
The front gate led to an open court, extending the whole breadth of the facade of the building, and backed by the wall of the inner part.
Their entrance, carefully closed, was frequently indicated by a facadecut on the side of the hill.
The facade on the courtyard looking east has three towers,--one in the centre, separated from the two others by the main building of the house.
The facade on the courtyard has a view of the vast plains semicircled by the mountains of the Correze, on the side toward Montegnac, but ending in the far distance on a low horizon.
The facade on the gardens, which is absolutely the same as the others, looks westward.
The strains came down to the youth on the campus through the giant oak trees that half obscured the facade of "old Brighton.
On the right is no doubt a faithful view of part of the old facade of the Certosa of Pavia before it was completed.
Ambrogio was distinguished as an architect no less than as a painter, and was employed on the facade of the Certosa of Pavia--a view of which building figures in the background of a picture by Ambrogio in our gallery (1410).
Michelangelo was mostly employed in the unworthy occupation of procuring marble from the quarries of Pietra Santa for the facade of the church of San Lorenzo at Florence.
The facade of his house at Verona was painted with frescoes, the upper part by Mantegna, the lower by Giolfino himself.
Fillmore Street Entrance South facade of entrance, outline illumination, with bare electric lights following outlines of architecture; used elsewhere only in Zone.
South facade of Palace of Varied Industries, by Faville.
East facadeof Varied Industries, made Italian to harmonize with Italian Machinery Palace.
Reflections in lagoon, from along colonnade, north of rotunda; West facade of walled city, with half domes of Palaces of Education and Food Products, and dim reflections of Italian towers.
Does your heart blush at the sight of the facade of the church of Saint-Louis, the salamander of Francois I and the lilies?
An excellent saying," returned the Marquis, with a laugh, "and one I should like to see engraved on the facade of all the modern parliaments.
Now there is a consensus of testimony that in Florence, in the year 1303, Giotto executed the designs for the facade of the Duomo, afterwards carried out by Andrea Pisano; and that in the same year he married.
It was shortly after the execution of this work, that Giotto prepared the designs for the facade of the Duomo, which were executed by Andrea Pisano; and in the succeeding year Giotto married, and shortly afterwards removed to Padua.
Its facade is imposing, with a row of stately columns, high above which a broad sign impends, like a crag over the brow of a lofty precipice.
He ventured to differ, however, about the Corinthian columns which were to cling like leeches to the frames of the bow windows, saying that, for his part, he liked to relieve the facade by a bit of decoration.
There were a few streaks of bluish-green among the clouds, a few patches of watery light upon the earth, and then the dripping facade of San Miniato shone brilliantly in the declining sun.
But it gave them strength to drift into another Piazza, large and dusty, on the farther side of which rose a black-and-white facade of surpassing ugliness.
You see there on the wall the outline of the facade and the layout of the building.
As we rounded a group of trees and caught a full view of the splendid facade of Kirby Hall, we could not repress an exclamation of surprise.
I had seated myself with my back to the facade of my hotel, under the window of my own room.
That facade and that garden were the first images my child-eyes perceived; and they will be the last, no doubt, which I still see through my closed eyelids when the Inevitable Day comes.
Lately I have noticed that some veins of red oxide of iron exist among these hills--quarries of marble must also be found there; since the sculptured ornaments that adorn the facade of all the monuments at Uxmal are of that stone.
We see an image of it, represented floating amidst the water, in the sculptures that adorn the panel over the door of the east facade of the monument, called by me palace and museum at Chichen-Itza.
The facade is covered with mosaics representing the Virgin and Child enthroned, surrounded by ten virgins, and on either side the figure of a bishop (Innocent II.
At the foot of the palatial facade is strewn, with careful art and ordered irregularity, a broad and broken heap of massive rock.
On the facade are some curious inscriptions, referring to the height of the floods caused by the Tiber from 1422.
The facade of the basilica, the upper part of which has lately been uncovered, is toward the Tiber; it consists of a beautiful mosaic which has taken thirteen years to complete, and is the finest production of the Vatican manufactory.
The step from the lowlands to the highlands which is here called the Mogollon Escarpment is not a simple line of cliffs, but is a complicated and irregular facade presented to the southwest.
Such are the vertical elements of which the Grand Canyon facade is composed.
It is the most conspicuous feature of the grand facade and imparts its chief characteristic.
Thus the elements of the facade of the Grand Canyon change vertically and horizontally.
The heavens constitute a portion of the facadeand mount into a vast dome from wall to wall, spanning the Grand Canyon with empyrean blue.
The western edge of this plateau is known as the Nacimiento Mountain, a long north-and-south range of granite, which presents a bold facade to the valley of the Puerco on the west.
A big gray wall stretched out, the frigid facade of a State establishment, and it was through a quiet, simple, unobtrusive little doorway at the end of this wall that La Couteau went in with the child.
Finally, we saw the last Papal Benediction to be given from the facade of St. Peter's on that memorable Easter Sunday, 1870.
A great cameo," Miss Amelia Edwards calls that facade at sunrise in her fascinating book, and that phrase had made me long for years for this moment.
The wall below the cornice presents a smooth surface of limestone, no traces of plaster or paint appearing; above the cornice the facade is one solid mass of rich, complicated, and elaborately sculptured ornaments.
Year by year portions of the ornamented facade fall.
