Reluctantly he went ahead of the samurai, as far as a gate the massiveness of which attracted attention.
The just medium between mediaevalmassiveness and classic simplicity was attained in countless buildings beautiful and various beyond description.
He lacked some sense of symmetry and sought to achievemassiveness by crowding figures in a given space.
Peculiarity is an appearance of massiveness and fluffiness.
The characteristic features of these splendid cities is their massiveness and solidity.
The very effort to secure immortality by the massiveness of these tombs defeated its own object.
Apart from its site it cannot be considered one of the really great ruins of the world; but yet there is about it a combination of massiveness and simplicity, and of solidity combined with grace, which have earned it fame for a thousand years.
And any over-weighing sense of massiveness is relieved by the elegance of the surrounding colonnade of graceful Greek-like pillars.
The chief characteristic is the massiveness of its foliage--its umbrageousness.
Although the massiveness of the Anglo-Norman piers and walls plainly suggests the intention of vaulting the nave, this intention seems never to have been carried out except in small churches and crypts.
Broad wall-surfaces with small windows and a general massiveness and lowness of proportions were long preferred to the more slender and lofty forms of true Gothic design.
Great size and splendor, massiveness and originality of construction, they do not possess.
To avoid the extremes of too great massiveness and excessive slenderness in these columns, they were built in two stages, and advantage was taken of this arrangement, in some cases, at least, to introduce lateral galleries into the naos.
The thrust must be resisted either by the massiveness of the abutments or by the opposition to it of counter-thrusts from other arches or vaults.
But for the massivenessof the details it might be a Florentine palace.
The view of the ensemble from the river shows the massiveness and general proportions in a unique and superb manner.
Its Gothic is of the true perpendicular style, however, and, with the general grand proportions of the building, gives that immensity and massiveness which is associated only with a church of the first rank.
This porch, though a small structure, has a massiveness in all its parts, which the church has been said to lack.
The huge, bearded parent rose in his massiveness against his other shoulder, hemming him in.
All these public edifices have a uniform character of massiveness and solidity.
Despite the apparent massiveness of the substructure, this soon made the whole so alarmingly insecure that it was pulled down.
There is height as well as width, massiveness and strength, boldness and light.
The massiveness on which the old Romanesque builders depended to obtain their elevations and support the great weight is most impressive.
Hence Luxor satisfies the eye in the perfect arrangement of the columns and in the massiveness of the work.
There are grottoes and alcoves, and terraces formed by runs of water; Gothic arches and Etruscan columns, carvings of most cunning elaboration, and stalactites more noticeable for their massiveness than for their grace.
Their massiveness is brought out with great effect.
The massiveness of its substructions, the splendour of its materials, the artistic skill displayed by the Tyrian workmen in all its details and adornments, added to the awful sense of its indwelling Deity, gave it an imperishable fame.
The simplicity and massiveness of its structure have defied age and violence, and, except for the shattered ornaments and a few pieces over the inner side of the window, not a stone appears ever to have been moved from its place.
Not all its massiveness and splendor could save it from the common fate; not all its treasures of goldsmith's work and sculpture and art.
Only the massiveness of a Doric structure could so perfectly chime in with the grandeur of Nature, so fittingly command the immense and silent though turbulent landscape that rolls away from its feet.
The great massivenessof the structure and absence of elaborate ornament no doubt contribute to this feeling.
The city itself, from the massiveness and solidity of the edifices, has more of a solemn than a lively appearance; but there is a delightful walk on the ramparts which are lined with trees.
The outside of this Duomo of Florence is decorated and incrusted with black and white marble, which increases the massiveness of its appearance.
There is nothing light in its structure to relieve the massiveness of the building, and in this respect it forms a striking contrast to the Cathedral of Milan which appears the work of Sylphs.
This can be told, but the massiveness of sky-piled masonry, the almost infernal mixture of grandeur and grotesqueness, are beyond expression.
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