And high on the roof of the other skyscraper was a tin brass goose looking out across prairies, and silver blue lakes shining like blue porcelain breakfast plates, and out across silver snakes of winding rivers in the morning sun.
In the next town they came to was a skyscraper higher than all the other skyscrapers.
They wished to know how it would look to see five long-legged, spider jack-rabbits jump over the highest skyscraper in the city.
In fact, as the reports of damage wrought by the earthquake came in, the conviction grew that one of the safest places during the earthquake shock was on one of the upper floors of the skyscraper office buildings or hotels.
She could see the supper crowds hurrying home, and out in the corridor of the big skyscraper could be heard the banging of elevator doors as the office tenants, one after another, left for the day.
Are you ready to accept contracts for putting out skyscraper blazes in all big cities?
A child of fifteen working in the pit of a skyscraper and crying himself to sleep nights for memory of his father he'd seen killed at like work, yet refusing money from me till I married his mother and made him take it.
A steel skyscraper was being erected in 42nd street and Jim asked the superintendent of construction for work.
None of us finds it all as pretty as the picture of the bugler, whether we work in a factory, a skyscraper or on a drill ground.
For according to that point of view, a skyscraper is only a symbol--and of what?
Far below them, the watchers in the tower of the skyscraper saw trees swaying and bending in the wind.
He rapidly sketched out for them, in words as simple as he could make them, his theory that a flaw in the rock on which the foundations rested had developed and let the skyscraper sink, not downward, but into the Fourth Dimension.
When the skyscrapervanished it must have left a hole of some sort, and it may be possible for them to follow us down.
Through the window beside him, he could look out of his skyscraper apartment over the domed city of Ranthoor.
Far out in the very center of the spaceport, a high, clear-glass skyscraper rose, catching the sunlight in a million colors.
It was a Lhari spaceport that lay before him, to all appearances identical with the one on Earth: sloping glass ramps, tall colorless pylons, a skyscraperterminus crowded with men of all planets.
Six hundred and twenty feet in the air, she could look down upon every skyscraper in the city.
Atop that skyscraper was a home, a pent house, a gorgeous affair that shone like marble.
The skyscraper will not come down from the heavens merely because a belated traveller rails that his view of the stars has been obscured.
The clang of the cars proclaimed the Street Railway Merger and a skyscrapercalled "The Flatiron" was just raising its giant frame on the little triangle where a half-dozen old-fashioned buildings had stood for generations.
A one-story structure eleven hundred feet long, and tall enough to take a twenty-two story skyscraper under its roof, with room to spare!
In the center of the compartment was a desk and chair, as though this were some secretarial room in a skyscraper office building.
Well the home of the six-footed farmer I am going to tell you about now is as much taller than he is as a mile-high skyscraper would be taller than a man.
Outside the revolving door of the skyscraper the philosopher lost her.
Out of the west leaped a meteor, lighting the roof of the skyscraper almost to midday.
Why, there are people living in four blocks of Broadway who never saw any kind of a building except a skyscraper in their lives!
The same causes that made the skyscraper a necessity in New York have worked a like necessity in the city at the head of the Ohio.
You travel for variety's sake, otherwise you might as well go to the local skyscraper hotel in your own town and save railroad fare and other transportation expenses.
Later that day that same man stands in another window--of a tall skyscraper this time--and again gazes down.
So the contractor began building the walls--which in the modern steel skyscraper as you know form no part of the real structure but act rather as a stone envelope to keep out hard weather--from the seventh story upward.
And because it is so typical of the best form of the so-called skyscraper architecture, let us stop and take a look at it, listen to the story of its construction.
Not that the New York type of skyscraper is not excellent.
How about plunging into the fastnesses of the skyscraper country and biting some big bull caribous in the chest?
He was a typical city Reub--I'd bet the man hadn't been out of sight of a skyscraper in twenty-five years.
A visiting Englishman envying the light, airy accommodations in the tall office buildings in American cities, has sagely said that the skyscraper would be impossible without the adequate telephone service which is here provided.
Steel rolled here may find its place as part of a skyscraper in the Babel of New York, be builded into the framework of a vessel in the shipyards of San Francisco, or help to construct a railroad into the heart of China.
For ten years she had gone every morning to her work through the streets, and she had felt herself to be as aloof from the masses as the soaring skyscraper at the corner of Broadway.
Why, there wasn't a skyscraperor an apartment house in the city when you left here, and precious few hospitals.
You wouldn't expect us to place a thing of such vital strategic importance in a skyscraperon a wide open plain as a landmark for every enemy?
It was like watching a skyscraper being built from the top down and all the way vast amber colored, translucent pillars had followed them down the shaft, the spinal column of The Brain.
The good American barqueSkyscraper was swinging at her moorings in the Clyde, off Bannock, ready for sea.
IV Early next morning windowless walls began to crawl up the stripped skyscraper between them and the lake.
He had the feeling that a new kind of mole was loose in the burrows and that the ground at the foot of their skyscraper might start humping up any minute.
Look out there," he rapped, pointing through the violet glass at a gap between the two nearest old skyscraper apartments.
These two Clubs will have their national headquarters together in a skyscraper hotel of their own in New York and will act together--in bringing an idea for the people into the world.
Spread out on the hillside below us lay the Kharsa, topped by the white skyscraper of the HQ.
Most of one wall was taken up by a TV monitor which gave a view of the spaceport; a vast open space lighted with blue-white mercury vapor lamps, and a chained-down skyscraper of a starship, littered over with swarming ants.
Once I turned, and saw below me the bright-lighted spaceport, the black many-windowed loom of the skyscraper like a patch of alien shadow in the red-violet moonlight.
