Round the walls of the rotunda are the cells, 208 in number, and arranged in four tiers with balconies reached by iron staircases.
On the interior of the dome which covers the rotundaare a series of paintings by Oliver Dennett Grover (b.
Once she saw Arsinoe dressed out like a queen, followed by beggar children and pelted with bad words--then she saw her on the rotunda below the balcony romping with Pollux, and in their bold sport they broke her mother's bust.
Soon after breakfast Pollux went up to the rotunda where the Queens' busts stood, hoping to see Arsinoe again, and a loud snatch of song soon brought her out on to the balcony.
At the rotunda his pupil had done his business better than his master could have expected, but Pollux was by no means satisfied with his own arrangements.
Well, now she would ask him plainly whether he had placed it on therotunda for her or for her sister, and let him see she was not pleased.
I only request you to tell my master Papias when he comes here with Gabinius, the dealer in antiquities, that he will find me at the rotunda that you inspected with me yesterday.
On goin' through a wide lobby you come into a vast open rotunda reachin' clear up to the top of the buildin', where the sunlight falls down most graciously through a richly ornamented skylight.
A large historic composition by him, The Landing of Columbus, finished in 1846, fills one of the panels in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
Thomas Jefferson, awe-struck and gaping, found himself foot-loose for a time in the Marlboro rotunda while his father talked with a man who wanted to bargain for the entire output of the Paradise furnace by the year.
When I reached the Rotunda it was more fitting that I should have found a bed there than a rostrum, for when I rose to speak I was weak as well as timid.
First, a series of nine arches and piers which separate the rotundafrom the ambulatory.
The interior walls of the rotunda are treated in five distinct stories.
But the mount on which the rotunda stands, is of much more ancient date than the building, and perhaps was raised for some other purpose than to support it.
It stands on the summit of an ancient artificial mount, about twenty feet high; and the rotundaat the top, being about thirty feet more, gives to the whole fabric an elevation of sixty feet from the ground.
On the strip of ground to the east of them once stood Ranelagh, the gay rotunda which played such a part in all London flirtations; where misses met their beaux and walked round in stately steps to the sound of music.
The last public entertainment was given in 1803, and of the gay rotunda with its gorgeous fittings not a vestige now remains.
After all, Daly might have come to Montreal on business, and the rotunda of a Canadian hotel is something of a public resort.
Its bare walls were cracked and exuded resin; black drops from the central heater pipes stained the rotunda floor, which was torn by the spikes on the river-Jacks' boots.
Still he felt a puzzling curiosity about the fellow, and after supper went to the rotunda where the man presently sat down not far off.
As he passed, he took the letters from his coat, and entering the rotundasat down and lighted his pipe.
The great meeting of Irish peers, members of Parliament, and landlords, as it was called, was held in the Rotunda on the above day.
But the "Kenton" was never to be eternized in bronze or marble for that niche in the rotundaof the capital where Ward may have imagined it finding itself.
In Rutland Square, at the northern end, is the Rotunda, containing public rooms for meetings, and adjoining it, the Rotunda hospital with its Doric facade.
They were here when we came down into the rotunda to smoke after dinner.
He was both surprised and concerned, while smoking and chatting with Mr. Allerton in the rotunda of the St. Charles, to see Lascelles with a friend, evidently watching an opportunity of speaking with him.
The men went and smoked by the rotunda and the women joined them.
That corner of an old courtyard, with its rotunda of Greek columns, its sun-dial and its fish-pond and that ruined well with the Renascence roof and those stone steps and stone benches: all very picturesque.
At the back, against the opposite wall, the same Greek rotunda displayed its slender columns.
For one reason or another no one was disposed to respond to the Macedonian cry, and when the Governor at last gave it up and walked out into the rotunda he was about as disturbed as he permitted himself to get.
The third floor is nothing but store rooms; we'll not be disturbed up there, and we can look right down the rotunda and see the whole show.
The old man's remains lay in state in the rotundaof the State Capitol, and the building was draped in mourning.
Rotunda at Woolwich, made of bars of iron laid longitudinally, and bound together with iron hoops.
Bronze guns, of a great size, were cast in 1468 at Constantinople, and one of them is now in the Rotunda at Woolwich.
The idea of her pinning that paper on a man and standing him up in the rotunda looks absurd at a first glance.
That's the professor," whispered Jo to Jim as the man came into the rotunda where the boys were waiting.
The chamber preceding the rotunda also affords access to another corridor, leading to various apartments, presenting similar appearances to those already described.
But the most entire of all is a small rotunda, which, as well as the rotunda at Rome, and some others to be met with in Italy, demonstrates that form to be the most durable of any.
Congress repeatedly endeavored to have Washington's remains removed to the crypt under the rotunda of the Capitol originally constructed for their reception, but the family always refused, knowing it was his desire to rest at Mount Vernon.
It contains the battle-flags of the Virginia troops and other relics, and in a gallery built around the rotunda are hung the portraits of the Virginia Governors and of the three great military chiefs, Lee, Johnston and Jackson.
The rotunda is the most striking feature of the Capitol interior; it is nearly one hundred feet in diameter, and rises one hundred and eighty feet to the ceiling of the dome, which is ornamented with fine frescoes by Brumidi.
This, as rebuilt under Hadrian, with the rotunda which we know, must have been one of the earliest Roman buildings in solid mortar-masonry.
Rogers, who has executed many exquisite works indicating fine sentiment and fancy, is most favorably known for the bronze doors in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
Some of the alto-relievos in the Rotunda are of such exceptional uncouthness that one is astounded to think that some of the men are still living who permitted them to be placed there.
Thus one may translate in more detail, that the rotunda is the posterior--a part of the body which the child regularly considers as part of the genital--while the smaller building before it is the scrotum.
The dreamer himself interprets as follows: "The rotunda is my genital, the balloon in front of it is my penis, of whose slackness I have been complaining.
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