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Example sentences for "small temple"

  • Its principal antiquities are a small temple, supposed to be the remains of Eratosthenes' observatory, the remains of a Roman bridge, and the ruins of the Saracen town.

  • It consists of three courts; in the third and largest is a pond, and in the centre a small temple.

  • Near this is a small temple, elevated on a basement.

  • About the middle of the village was a small temple, with a few lamps burning dimly before the principal divinity.

  • In addition to their huts of leaves, they had erected a small temple, where they invited us to alight.

  • Round the column are fragments of three or four others, which appear to have formed a small temple.

  • Over it seems to have stood a small temple, to judge by the remains of several columns that are lying about.

  • First in order is a small temple of the Sun, in a perfect state of preservation; the front measures 38 feet by 27 feet deep.

  • A fourth class of Lycian rock-cut tombs, those with a facade resembling a small temple-front, is of particular interest to the history of architecture.

  • Upon the summit of this terraced pyramid stood the necessarily small temple, which, according to Herodotos, contained a spacious couch and a golden table, but no statue of the deity.

  • In some instances the beaten metal was gold, this being the case with the Temple of Jerusalem and with a small temple at Carthage, which contained an image similarly overlaid.

  • To the west of this, at about two hundred yards distance, are the remains of a small temple, with three Corinthian pillars, still standing.

  • This statue had just been placed in the middle of a small temple, which received light by two opposite doors, in order that a gentle light might fall on it on every side.

  • At the entrance of the bridge there is a small temple, cut in the rock, by the same person that built the bridge.

  • Plan of a small temple at Nimroud; from Layard.

  • At the foot of the temple on the right of the engraving there is a palace, on the left two obelisk-shaped steles and a small temple of a type to be presently described.

  • At the foot of the hills from which we had this view we came to a small temple and an eating-house, close to a stream crossed by a bridge called Hao Shou.

  • A small temple, presumably that from which the village is named, overlooks a rather cranky iron suspension bridge.

  • Before entering into Mithila, the capital, I stopped to rest at a small temple, and found there an old woman, who gave me water for my feet.

  • Exhausted by fatigue and the scorching heat of the sun, I went into a small temple to rest, and saw there a brahman with a number of children, all looking wretched and half-starved.

  • The front is shaped to resemble the facade of a small temple, and in it is a small altar of terra cotta for the burning of incense.

  • At the rear a small temple (3) stands upon a high podium which projects in front of the cella and reached by two flights of steps.

  • At Edayr, three miles to the north of Esneh, remains of a small temple of the Ptolemies and Caesars, lately destroyed.

  • Adjoining this temple, and on its west side, is a small temple of Oph, in which travellers sometimes lodge.

  • At Ferayg, nearly opposite, on east bank, a small temple in the rock.

  • It led to a wall of sundried bricks, coated with plaster, which proved to be part of a small temple.


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