The two upper storeyshave Corinthian columns or pilasters and the sky-line is broken by sculpture rising over the balustrade.
A very substantial stone structure, two storeysand an attic high, faces the square at Reykjavik; it bears date 1881.
Each transept has the usual three storeys with corner turrets and a square chapel opening on the east.
Build me a terem [49] thirty-two storeys high with a little bow-window at the top of it.
And on the right-hand side of this crystal bridge let him build a cathedral fivestoreys high, with golden pinnacles, where he may receive the wedding crown with my daughter, and where the marriage may be celebrated.
Four storeys high it rears its chequered walls, topped by tall, beetling gables, and broken into play of light and shade by ranges of oriel windows.
The chapel to the east of the north transept contained several storeys and a staircase.
The walls of this building were partly erected about the time of the construction of the choir, but were afterwards raised to two storeysin height, and vaulted by Bishop Cameron.
These outbuildings are two storeys high, with loop-holes to shoot out of.
From this again a flight of fifteen steps leads up to a terrace, garden, and pavilion three storeys high.
The house, as far as I can recollect, consisted of four storeysand a basement.
I was upstairs in the nursery reading to Teddy, and my mother was in the drawing-room, two storeys beneath.
It was one of those houses of which there are thousands in Paris, ignoble, vulgar, narrow, yellowish in tone, with four storeys and three windows on each floor.
He gazed, unhappy man, at the different storeys of the house, with the keen attention of a detective searching for a conspirator.
All that portion of the west end not occupied by the window and the porch is filled with storeys of niches and arcading.
These upper storeys do not correspond with the roof of the aisle behind them.
No doubt, in the meantime the upper storeys of the two bays were kept from falling by temporary props.
Meanwhile, of course, with this new arrangement, the upper storeys of the bays did not correspond with the arches below them.
The aisle fronts have upper storeys ornamented with blind arches and an upper row of small lancet windows.
The buttresses separating it from the aisle are decorated with six storeys of niches, two to each storey, except the lowest, which contains only one.
It was a problem which probably presented itself to them in the question how they were to treat the different storeys of the building.
At York the three storeys of single windows give the design an air of monotony and weakness.
She whipped him upstairs, and she whipped him down, and finally she whipped him over the window, which was two storeys high.
I knew a man who kicked his own cat out of his pigeon loft, three storeys high.
Along each of the four sides is a Gothic arcade, on which the first and all the higher storeys of the houses rest.
Sta Maria is an early Lombard pile of buildings, with a very lofty tower and an octagon over the crossing, which rises in four galleried storeys surmounted by a low spire.
The two upper storeys are not like the lower, built of stone, but have been constructed in a very beautifully coloured brick.
The deeply-recessed arcading of the central lights of the first and second storeys gives just the right amount of shade to an otherwise flat surface, which the windows above and at either side only slightly relieve.
Rising in two storeys from the ground, which is six feet below the present level of the surrounding orchards, its dome is barely visible above the tops of the fruit trees.
The two lowest storeys of this grand tower are the original Norman work of Roger's day.
A couple of turrets rise in three storeys above the two side wings of the block.
This enormous fabric of marble and brick, stands facing a wide open piazza on two sides of which are low houses--houses of three storeys are very rare in the older parts of the city.
The upper storeys of these grey-brown walls overhang and are supported by huge wooden cantilevers.
Many of the houses here are seven, eight, or nine storeys high.
Illustration: The Remains of the Two Upper Storeys of Rustam's House.
The buildings have two storeys and nearly all have tiled fronts, less elaborate than the minarets and dome, but quite pretty, with quaint white verandahs.
Rustam's favourite room was said to have been the top one, represented in the photograph facing page 266, where the outside of the two top storeys of the building can be seen.
It was a tall building with basement rooms below and at least three storeys above.
All the intervening storeyswere by Whymper’s command left vacant.
Byzantine style, is four storeys high, and has two towers of 140 ft.
The business houses are of stone or brick, and many of them are attractive architecturally; there are a number of modern office buildings from 15 to 20 storeys in height.
This colossal figure, five storeys high, extends from the pavement of the church to the roof.
The church was of almost elementary simplicity; above its three porches rose a straight wall with two storeys of columns forming arcades and surmounted by grotesque figures.
Perhaps the nine storeys are an exaggeration: at any rate the building suffered from fire and underwent numerous reconstructions and modifications.
In other buildings, notably Angkor Wat, the pyramidal form is obscured by the slight elevation of the storeys compared with their breadth and by the elaboration of the colonnades and other edifices, which they bear.
The same shape is repeated in four upper storeys of decreasing size which however serve merely for external decoration and correspond to nothing in the interior.
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many storeys high," a metaphor seemingly borrowed from Bacon's "Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four storeys high.
Its walls were of a rough rubble of granite and whinstone, grown upon at the upper storeys with grasses and weeds wafted upon the ledges by the winds that blow indifferent, bringing the green messages of peace from God.
The building is one of three storeys each with ten pointed windows forming the facade facing the square.
On the summit of the plateau stands the residency proper, the official residence of the chief commissioner, a lofty building three storeys high, with a fine portico.
He has a place of his own now, about four storeys underground, where he tinkles on every sort of Chinese instrument.
The building towered to a height of sixteen or seventeen storeys at least, and appeared only a lesser mountain among mountains.
Several shops of superior description, two and three storeys high, have recently been erected, and Queen Street, besides being the longest, is certainly just now one of the most improving streets in Auckland.
Two storeys were gutted, and one of the guests was burned to death.
Here, the houses of several storeys have stone walls of such thickness that they resist by sheer strength; and the one-storey mud houses, in the suburbs, are too low to suffer much by being shaken about.
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