Illustration: Palais du Franc, Bruges] One of the most interesting of the almost innumerable mediaeval buildings in Bruges is the Palais du Franc which, with its many quaint turrets and gables, overlooks the fish market on the Quai Vert.
Unfortunately its principal facadeoverlooks the narrow rue de Beffer instead of the Grande Place, and its beautiful details cannot be seen as effectively as could be desired.
Cliefden, now one of the seats of his Grace the Duke of Westminster, is situated in Buckinghamshire, and overlooks the river Thames in its most attractive part.
The bay window overlooks the park and the distant country for miles away, while the side windows overlook parts of the grounds and buildings.
The principal remaining apartment—and of this we give an illustration—is at the top of that portion of the building which overlooks the valley.
The opposite end of the Drawing-room from the entrance doorway is occupied by a large window, of similar size to that in the Dining-room beneath it, whichoverlooks the lower court-yard or quadrangle.
Hamann's main theme is that Darwinism overlooks the fact that "there cannot have been an origin of higher types from types already finished.
It regards these as arbitrary acts, and does so because it overlooks or underestimates the fact that they have to be reckoned with throughout the whole of nature.
It overlooks the bay of Naples; and such is the magnificent repose of this spot, that one is tempted to believe the bard himself must have selected it.
The Catholic church stands on a height that overlooks the main, the lash of whose tides frequently blends with the chant of the priests.
TEI FU (Right): The previous speaker overlooks the fact that the rate of wages depends, rot upon the will of the employer, but upon supply and demand.
Though no part of the beautiful Italian lake actually belongs to Tirol the town of Riva overlooks it; the country round is most productive in wine, silk, lemons, figs, and other fruits.
The former overlooks the more smiling tracts we traversed in our forced march, locally called the Ardetzen, hemmed in by noble mountain peaks.
It overlooksthe River Danube from a height of more than three hundred feet.
The church of San Miniato, which overlooks the city of Florence, was built in 1013, and is one of the most perfect as well as one of the earliest of the churches of the Byzantine-Romanesque order in Italy.
On the top of Mount Victoire, which overlooks the scene of the terrific battle, a temple was erected and dedicated to Venus Victrix.
It is planted with the ubiquitous shady plane, and overlooks the magnificent view to the south.
It overlooks Pesaro and Fano, the valleys of the Isauro and Metauro, with the hilly land which separates them.
All policy that overlooks or contemns this natural subordination in the ends of human existence, must terminate in disaster and misery.
We have consistently opposed that policy which tends to give capital an undue and factitious influence, and, in its precipitate zeal to stimulate production, overlooks all other interests.
Standing on the hill which overlooks the town, and looking to the north-east, I saw the mission of San Diego, a fine large building now deserted.
Which may make for good progress in war, but for a programme of peace it overlooks the cardinal principle.
My window overlooksthe town and I have quite an audience of Turkish heads listening.
Four miles of city, all that part of Stambul which overlooks the Sea of Marmora, lay stretched out before us, her black walls and many-colored houses reflected in the limpid water as in a mirror.
Pera lies more than three hundred feet above the level of the sea, is bright and cheerful, and overlooks both the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus.
He has power over the life and property of millions of his subjects, and the means of gratifying every whim, no matter how extravagant, and yet could not, if he wanted to, alter the fashion of his own headgear.
He shuts his eyes to history, and he overlooks the fact that there is such a thing as human nature.
Some things a man sees clearly to be inseparably connected with the object of his choice; some he is less conscious of; some he overlooks altogether.
The opposite porch is also fitted up as a living-room and overlooks the home garden.
The house to-day overlooks extensive grounds and is embowered in a wealth of rambler roses and iris.
Then, too, its location is well chosen, as it overlooks the old-fashioned garden and commands vistas cut in trees and shrubbery.
It "overlooks the unique originality of the Epistle;" and to ascribe to the writer of it "any ulterior motives at all is simply a useless display of acuteness.
A stately monument overlooksthe noble river of the Niagara, and recalls {337} the services of the gallant soldiers, Brock and McDonell, whose remains rest beneath.
From that day to this the mountain, as well as the great city which it now overlooks in place of a humble Indian town, has borne the name which Cartier gave as a tribute to its unrivalled beauty.
Some ruined gateways belonging to the old city walls are still standing; among them being the tower-gateway called the Dromedary (1540), whichoverlooks the harbour.
But, at any rate, from Roubaix one overlooks that depression for some miles; one sees five miles distant the fortifications of Lille, and the intervening country is open enough to betray the presence of troops.
St. Lorenzo, the next post, built upon a hill, overlooks the lake of Bolsena, whose woody shores conceal many ruined buildings.
Passing from the bridge through the Aujezder Thor, you come to the pleasant slopes and gardens of the Laurenzberg, a hill that overlooks the city and country around.
C] At Meistersdorf, a furlong or two farther, on a little hill that overlooksmiles of country, the school-house is one of the best buildings in the place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overlooks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
