If this be borne in mind, it will not be possible to make the mistake into which so many have fallen, of speaking of Piers the Plowman as being the author, not the subject, of the poem.
English poet, generally regarded until recently as the single author of the remarkable 14th-century poem Piers the Plowman.
In some of these visions there is no mention of Piers the Plowman, but in others he describes him as being the coming reformer who was to remedy all abuses, and restore the world to a right condition.
Langton's enemy, Piers Gaveston, were quickly followed by the arrest of the bishop and his removal from office.
Vision of the Seven Deadly Sins, and of Piers the Plowman (pass.
Piers Gaveston and the Despensers, and was beheaded for treason at Pontefract.
Between the two of them, however, there was this difference: the piers were never chipped or shaken by the ice cakes.
Meanwhile the observer had reached the base of one of the stone piers which supported the bridge.
When we were almost abreast of the Nieuport piers once more I suddenly saw a little puff of hard black smoke appear in the air in front of us.
Following up the stretch of sand-dunes I see near the lines the twinkling lights in the hutments near Coxyde, and at the Nieuport piers the occasional flash of a gun and the red burst of a shell.
At the end of the lines by the piers of Nieuport we are six miles or so from the coast.
When we could distinctly see the Nieuport piers and the Belgian Hoods stretching down towards Dixmude, the leader turned out to sea.
As we draw nearer I suddenly see the two piers of Dunkerque and the docks materialise in the mist, and on the other side the dull glow of landing flares from an aerodrome.
Twenty-eight piers would be released for steamship service and the necessity of extensive, and expensive, harbor improvements deferred, for a number of years at least.
Yet the delays upon the water sides of these piers are as nothing compared with those upon their street sides.
To these piers the freight-cars of these eleven railroads come on long clumsy car-floats, each accommodating about ten cars.
The berthings between the piers are narrow, there is much congestion in them and in the rivers about Manhattan Island, and delays are not only frequent but constant.
The nave has two aisles, and massive piers with engaged columns support the transverse and lateral arches.
In the nave are the piersand Romanesque capitals of an early, but not the earliest, church on the spot.
Upon one of the piers of the sanctuary are a pair of symbolical doves dipping their beaks into the chalice that separates them, and upon another are two grotesque and fantastic beasts facing one another with frightful jaws wide open.
The large stone piers are richly decorated, their cornices supported by fluted columns, and surmounted by two colossal lions, couchant.
They were found near two ancient piers of a large gate--Janus was the God of Gates.
The rush from the drain at the north arch of Blackfriars Bridge drove a steamer against one of the piersand damaged it.
The piers of the old suspension bridge are still standing near the brink of the falls.
No shaft must ever be used but of one block; and this the more, because the permission given to the builder to have his walls and piers as ponderous as he likes, renders it quite unnecessary for him to use shafts of any fixed size.
St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich), running from east to west without break, but the large rood piers and reduced width and height of chancel make the pause demanded in so long a church.
The piers are slender, but, owing to the depth of the panelling above the arches and the large size of the windows, the weight upon them is reduced to a minimum.
The piers at the chancel entrance contain the staircases leading to the roofs and formerly to the rood loft.
The arcade which divides the aisles shows the consummation of the process which converted columns into piers by the omission of capitals and bases and the continuation of the mouldings from pier into arch.
The eastern piers of the tower are later than the western, and very unlike them in plan.
The detail of the piersand arches is rather weak, even for Perpendicular work.
The west arch of the south arcade has been forced out of shape by the pressure of the tower piers and arches; certainly the piers, which are little more than 4 feet square, seem slender enough for the support of so lofty a steeple.
Owing to the inequality of the eastern arches there is, in the position of the windows and roof principals a curious disregard of the lines of the piers and the centres of arches.
Extensive piers and an elevator were builded there upon the bank of the St. Lawrence, and the large covered passenger station that was so long a familiar landmark of that port.
Its piers were so crowded that vessels lay in the offing, their white sails clearly outlined against the blue of the harbor and the sky, awaiting an opportunity to berth against them.
With the flanges upon her driving-wheels ground down and her frame set upon brick piers she became the first powerhouse of the Rome shops.
The piers of the nave, too, are square, with circular shafts to carry the vault.
The chains pass over the suspension towers, and are secured to the piers on each shore.
Afterwards, however, stone piers were substituted for those on the Monmouth side, before the two counties joined in the erection of the present noble structure.
On thepiers which jut out into the rivers on all sides of the city, any one can see troupes of gamins every warm, pleasant day.
The Battery, too, has its frequenters, and the piers and docks at night are crowded with them.
Outside the piers were immense wooden sterlings, which were probably added later to keep the foundations of the piers from being undermined.
The bridge consisted of a drawbridge and nineteen broad-pointed arches, with massive piers varying in breadth from twenty-five to thirty-four feet.
Its numerous narrow arches, whose piers rested on huge sterlings, caused so great a fall in the stream that the passage through was a feat which none but experienced boatmen could safely attempt.
And he wished very much to find out why people should talk under piers at night, how they could get under Pier 31A except by swimming, and if they were throwing earth overboard why they were doing so, and where they got the earth.
He had a passion for the water, and to his love of swimming was added a passion for the underworld gossip with which the piers of the East River reek in bathing weather.
A standing wave is sometimes formed on the down stream side of bridges the piers of which obstruct the flow of the water.
If it is necessary to estimate this difference of level, the flow between the piers may be treated as if it occurred over a drowned weir.
When the piers of a bridge are erected in a stream they create an obstruction to the flow of the stream, which causes a difference of surface-level above and below the pier (fig.
The local saying linking Dodman with Rame Head has already been quoted; and it is asserted that Dodman and Rame really did meet when they both came into possession of Sir Piers Edgcumbe.
There are threepiers protecting its safe little harbour, but even these are hardly enough in times of tempest, and heavy baulks of wood are let down into grooves, further to break the force of the waves.
Piers and arches in Wingfield church, Suffolk, with badges of Michael de la Pole earl of Suffolk (ob.
Piers and arches in Wingfield church, Suffolk, with badges of Michael de la Pole earl of Suffolk (ob.
It was the last order he ever issued; for, in another minute, the undermined piers had given way, and the train was piled up in the creek a shapeless wreck.
Now it was a furious torrent, swollen beyond all recognition, and clutching spitefully at the wooden piers of heavy crib-work that upheld the single span of the bridge.
For this purpose he introduces a typical Fellah named AbAº ShAidAºf, whose rA'le corresponds to that of Piers the Plowman in Longland's Vision.
And Miss Lettice Piers is going to invite us to their treat at St Wilfred's first, so that we may see.
I'm sure thePiers do all they possibly can, and you know how papa says that, even with all the strict rules in the army, it's awfully difficult to keep the men sober.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
