The gate, protected by a large quadrangular bastion, opened in the middle of this wall.
The quadrangular pillar, with parallel or slightly inclined sides, and generally without either base or capital, frequently occurs in tombs of the ancient empire.
Four long grooves in the façade, reaching to a third of its height, correspond to four quadrangular openings cut through.
The court (I) was square, and surrounded by a double colonnade entered by way of four side-gates and a great central gateway flanked by two quadrangular towers with sloping fronts.
The quadrangular graves were constructed in two somewhat distinct ways.
Section of a quadrangular grave, showing the surface pack of river stories and the positions of the slabs and objects of art.
He describes the pits as being oval and quadrangular and as having a depth ranging from a few feet to 18 feet.
The headdress consists of a flat, broad cap with slightly projecting rim and large quadrangular flaps, which extend downward and outward over the large ear plugs.
From one of the incisor teeth a quadrangular piece had been cleanly removed (fig.
Then when they were alone at the extremity of the passage, Abdalonim, with one of the keys hanging at his girdle, opened a large quadrangular chamber divided in the centre by pillars of cedar.
Round her neck she wore little quadrangular plates of gold, representing a woman between two rampant lions; and her costume was a complete reproduction of the equipment of the goddess.
Two long porticoes, with their architraves resting on dumpy pillars, flanked a quadrangular tower, the platform of which was adorned with the crescent of a moon.
But as soon as the doorway was crossed one found oneself in a vast quadrangular court bordered by arcades.
At regular intervals they met with little quadrangular temples, which served as stations for the pilgrims who repaired to Sicca.
He reared a long quadrangular terrace in front of Utica, but in proportion as it ascended the rampart was also heightened, and what was thrown down by the one side was almost immediately raised again by the other.
From time to time he would press his face against the quadrangular openings in the closed apartments, and he thought that in several of the latter he could see persons asleep.
The earliest portion of the building is probably a high quadrangular tower, with lofty pointed pannels, in the four walls.
The other part consisted of the fort, which was formed by a quadrangular rampart, armed at the angles with bastions and small turrets.
It consisted of a quadrangular work of sandbags, constructed in a very durable manner, and evidently not long made.
It was a huge quadrangular building, like the barracks at Scutari, with a courtyard in the centre.
They have both a quadrangular depression in the centre, leaving the rest of the terrace elevated several feet above it.
From the Tongans the Samoans also borrowed the custom of building oblong quadrangular houses, which were called afolau.
So far as the mortuary platforms of the Marquesans are described, they appear to have been quadrangular piles of stone, with upright sides, not stepped or terraced.
They stood on quadrangular stone platforms of the usual type, ranging from three or four to six, eight, twelve, and even fifteen feet in height.
A large quadrangular tower, constructed in the same way, enclosing four stories, and terminated by a roof of reeds covering a crenelation, served as a place of retreat.
With this design quadrangular towers of the kind described were raised at the salient angles of the defences, which were weak points, but which, on the other hand, facilitated the discharge of missiles over a more extensive field.
They consisted of a cluster of bullet-proof log-cabins, arranged in a quadrangular form, so as to enclose a large internal area.
The fortress at Boonesborough consisted of ten strong log huts arranged in a quadrangular form, enclosing an area of about one-third of an acre.
Inside is a large quadrangular court, paved with broad slabs of sandstone; occupying the centre of this is a white marble reservoir of water.
The caravanserai is a big, commodious affair, a quadrangular structure of brick surrounding fully an acre of ground, and with a small open space outside.
This brings me to a caravanserai, consisting of a quadrangular enclosure with long rows of cell-like rooms.
It is a Cracovian costume in her colors, light-blue with red facings, and red quadrangular cap, ornamented with peacock-feathers.
It is only two stories high, quadrangular in the Italian fashion.
A round figure leaves us in some degree uncertain as to this: a quadrangular figure removes all doubt.
When short the handles are thick, even to the extent that they can scarcely be grasped by the two hands; these forms too are often perforated by quadrangular holes.
The lotus is here represented solely by the black triangles which occupy the angles of the quadrangular spaces which contain the rosettes; at all events there is good evidence to support this view.
Beneath there is a large quadrangular plate, ornamented with concentric lines, the sides of which often extend up to the dorso-lateral angle of the tail.
I know not what god, which they represent by a quadrangular stone.
FN#58] They are quadrangularor round steeples, in no way differing from other minarets.
We were struck by the appearance of a large quadrangular building, which having no windows on the outside, and only one carefully secured door, resembled a prison for state-criminals.
They drive a number of stakes into the ground in a quadrangular form, fill the interstices with thin planks, and roof in the whole with the bark of trees.
Close to the shore the fortress rears its strong turreted walls in a quadrangular form, planted with cannon, and bearing the striped national flag of the Sandwich Islands.
Upon their bodies is traced a sort of blackish-brown chain, presenting nearly quadrangular links upon a clear yellowish ground, extending from the nape of the neck to the extremity of the tail.
By inspecting the figure, we perceive the workings of a coal-field are resolved into quadrangular areas, having a pillar situated in one of the angles.
The sulphate of lime precipitates, while the sulphate of magnesia remains in solution, and may be made to crystallize in quadrangular prisms, by suitable evaporation and slow cooling.
In working, it separates in large quadrangular sharp-edged masses.
These are bags of coarse cotton cloth, in the form of inverted quadrangular pyramids, each of which is suspended from a frame of wood, about 2 feet square.
Chromic acid is obtained in quadrangular crystals, of a deep red colour; it has a very acrid and styptic taste.
At e, e, a deep quadrangular groove is made in the beams, for fixing down the four boards which form the bottom of the steam-way.
It has the form of a quadrangular pyramidal, approaching considerably to a prism, from the smallness of the angle included between the sides and the axis.
The iron fittings at the ends of the boat-hooks used by the boatmen on the lake are frequently found at La Tene; they terminate in a quadrangular pyramid or in a cone (fig.
The iron produced was introduced into commerce in large blocks, shaped like two quadrangular pyramids joined at the base, weighing from 12 to 16 lbs.
In this locality were found several quadrangular spaces very distinctly enclosed by piles, between which were raised as many as five platforms one above the other.
The provision of iron-ore is enclosed between four wooden slabs, forming a quadrangular space.
I have never seen a more romantic sight than this huge, quadrangular pile, with its array of battlements and towers rising abruptly out of the dark waters of the moat.
It is quadrangular in shape, with high walls from twenty to thirty feet thick surrounding a small court.
Its fine quadrangular tower is one of the landmarks of the city, and they will tell you of the quaint custom that has prevailed for many centuries of celebrating May Day morning with music from the top of the tower by a choir of boys.
Saxifraga with a creeping stem, the leaves placed in a quadrangular form.
It has eight stamens, placed in a quadrangular position, and two pistils.
The remains of this once magnificent structure consist of four circular massy bastion towers, each forming an angle of a quadrangular court, inclosed by walls three feet thick; the grand gateway on the south side is flanked by similar towers.
To the west of the church are a quadrangular bank and trench.
It is a magnificent example of a Quadrangular Castle, surrounded upon three sides by the waters of the North Sea, and defended upon the remaining side by gigantic walls flanked by the Keep, and also a deep ditch.
A type of castle appeared based like that of Bodium upon a French ideal,--the building of a high embattled wall strengthened with towers around a quadrangular space.
Valve quadrangular with more or less concave sides, sometimes cruciform.
What the author means by a jungle vine I do not exactly know, but conjecture that it may be one of the Bignoniaceae, the woody climbing species of which have in general their stem divided into lobes arranged in a quadrangular manner.
One appears to be a bit of the stem of an Aristolochia; the other is so dry as to render it difficult to identify it, but it resembles the quadrangular stem of a jungle vine.
