Generally, however, throughout Germany the wrought iron grilles are fine examples of forging, and they are employed for the enclosures of the numerous fountains, in the tympana of gateways, and for the protection of windows.
Similar grilles are employed to protect the ground-floor windows of mansions not only in Spain but in Italy and Germany.
Iron grilles of 1500 isolate the space within the columns where the sarcophagus stands.
There are four towers, two towards the sea and two towards the hill, which probably contained double staircases, but no sign of them remains, though the doorways and grilles of pierced stone testify to their usefulness.
Short chimneys are frequently provided for low bungalows, for architectural reasons.
Sagging beams injure the walls and ceilings of the house and are apt to crack the chimney, rendering it dangerous.
The quantity and temperature of the heated air discharged from the grilles in figures 20 and 21 were measured to determine the merits of the convection features.
The modifications are built-in standard parts of the fireplace--only the grilles show (fig.
Along the dark and solitary cross-streets came whiffs of springtime breezes laden with garden perfumes, the fragrance of orange blossoms, and the aroma of flowers in pots ranged behind grilles and balconies.
The people of the better class were caged behind the grilles of the chapels on the sides, avoiding contact with the sweaty crowd that surged in the naves.
We locked and barred the grilles and doors and came up into the sunlight, leaving the much venerated relic to keep its watch in the dark crypt.
The oddity noted presents two grilles touching by the top and bottom, one a little farther to the left than the other, making a strip of squares from the top to the bottom of the stamp.
It is not uncommon to find parts of two grilles on the same stamp at a distance from each other, part of a grille being at the top and part at the bottom, or part of a grille on each side.
Grilles were used in France and England in cathedrals.
Illustration: 671] The grilles anglaises are similar to the sleeping tables used at Idria.
It began to throw out the grilles and the other knickknacks, even before it had committed itself definitely to the use of the steel car.
Then the massive grilles of the Tuileries swung upon their hinges and a squadron of cuirassiers slowly trotted into the Place de la Concorde.
Against the grilles of the Rue Mouffetard hung specimens of the filthy illustrated Paris papers, either the pictures or text of which would debar them from any respectable English-speaking community.
It is quite proper that there should be some means of distinction, and it would seem well that the helmet with grilles should be reserved for peers.
The earliest instance amongst the Garter plates in which a helmet with grilles is used to denote the rank of a peer is the stall plate of Lord Knollys in 1615.
They assigned different numbers of grilles to different ranks, but as the writers differ as to the varying numbers, it is probable that such rules were never officially accepted even in that country.
The foundation wall, perforated and worn by people and carriages, was cleft by several windows with grilles on a level with the ground.
Grilles were salty green and shutters were paintless.
I, you may well imagine, saw nothing funny about it, but kicked and shook the grilles in my rage and impatience.
The grilles were closed as before, but the sentry's face, luckily, was strange to me.
But, friend or foe, none stopped us till at length we drew rein before the grilles of the Hôtel de Lorraine.
It exists everywhere in the wood and brick and stone of ancient and beautiful buildings, in iron grilles and balconies unrivalled in any other American city.
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