So he cut his precious block into slices: made slabs and shallow surfaces of it, and these he laid, as an outward adornment to his building, upon a substructure of brick or rubble.
The dark azure of heaven shining through the perforated trellis-work, contrasting with the white marble of the substructure and the red columns, forms a combination both striking and agreeable.
The temple of Fortuna Virilis which rose on a lofty substructure on the banks of the Tiber, was in the Ionic style.
On reaching the bottom, a low substructure is built so that the level there may continue as long as possible.
But if there is no such venter made in the valleys, nor any substructure built on a level, but merely an elbow, the water will break out, and burst the joints of the pipes.
Then within this substructure lay a second foundation, far enough inside the first to leave ample room for cohorts in line of battle to take position on the broad top of the rampart for its defence.
With calmness and assurance he proves the logical and historical impossibility of the interpretations of the well-known Biblical prophecies which serve as the substructure of the Christian dogma.
The Shulhan Arukh became the substructurefor the further development of Polish rabbinism.
They wanted to see what was underneath, and Dodwell, who was there, saw the foundation--a substructure of Peiraeic sandstone.
The great substructure of the Cadmea, the solid marble water-pipes of their conduits, a few inscriptions--that is all.
We crossed a strange bridge over the junction of two rivers made of three arches meeting in the centre, and of which the substructure were certainly old Greek building.
Excavations have revealed the substructure of the circular building which is generally accepted as having been the Temple of Apollo.
This is by no means the first time that the substructure of a Roman monument has been dubbed "cellars" by an indiscriminating public.
Temple stones have been found in many villages round the Mendoot and particularly in Ngrajeg, about two miles distant on the main road, there is no native dwelling in the substructure of which they have not been used.
All the knowledge we have of the subject justifies the inference that most of the igneous rocks which have been poured out in our Western Territories are but fused conditions of sediments which form the substructure of that country.
Yet, the substance of metageometry, or the science of the measurement of hyperspaces, may not be regarded as an a priori substructureupon which the system is founded.
These seven phases of duration constitute the scope of space genesis or kosmogenesis, and incidentally depose the substructure of kosmic materiality, sensibility, intellectuality and spirituality, as well as the higher trinity of kosmic modes.
For back of the "groups" lay the entire range of analytic investigations; the mathematical thought of more than a thousand years furnished the substructure upon which Lie built the conception of his "groups.
Because it is a process, a series of unfoldments, an adjustment of the focus of consciousness to the kosmic essentialities which constitute the substructure of the manifested universe.
The church of San Martino del Monte is built on part of the substructure of the baths of Titus; and there is a door opening from the church, by which you descend into the ancient subterranean vaults.
The temples, although they had each a separate entrance and cella, formed but one edifice; the substructure of which, having been recently excavated, is found to have been three hundred and thirty by one hundred and sixty feet.
The place usually assigned to it is occupied by the vaulted substructure of the dormitory (Z).
His tomb still exists on the plateau between lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of Sardis -- a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones.
On the eastern side we find the remains of the dormitory, raised on a vaulted substructure and communicating with the south transept.
Such a base, it is true, does not match the dome as accurately as a round substructurelike the Pantheon.
On the other hand, to set the round rim of a dome upon a square substructure seems an attempt to join figures which from the nature of things can never coalesce.
Beneath the apostles, on the substructure in a niche facing west, is a fine statue of St. Sebald, and at the corresponding place on the other end of the monument is the excellent statue of P.
In the foreground, an inscription and an architectural substructure in the shape of a temple, according to the fashion of stained glass at this period.
I need hardly say that, when this substructure and the staircase were made, the Chapter-house was already designed; for both staircase and substructureare simply buildings subordinate to the Chapter-house.
In 1286, then, the staircase and substructure were already finished, but the works were at a standstill, and the Chapter-house itself had not yet been begun.
The substructure was built up from the bottom of the loch, partly of brushwood but chiefly of logs and trunks of trees with the branches lopped off, placed in layers, each disposed transversely or obliquely across the one below it.
The domed chambers in the towers have a circular ground-plan, and when the problem presented by the rectangular substructure arose, it was met in a fashion which is applicable only to very small edifices.
Diodorus and by Strabo of the substructure of the Hanging Gardens are examined, and the mutual interaction of India and western Asia is considered.
Above the square niched substructure the tower is circular, and for a height of about 2 metres the wall is plain.
Until a further examination has been made, the ruin at Susa offers too frail a substructure for the lightest of theories.
The mightysubstructure of the building is still in existence.
Of really better design, though blocked and in a less favourable position, is the other gateway, the Porta Martis, which now makes part of the substructure of the new piazza, as it once did of that of the papal fortress.
Perhaps the work was physically needful: but it has involved the destruction of the substructure of the ancient building on the site of which the church stands.
Seler, lying on a substructure of stones in the centre of an open space, presumably a market place, definitely proves that the design was intended to be placed in a horizontal position.
His name is associated not only with the massive wall on the southern side of the Acropolis but also with an enormous substructure intended to level up the sloping rock of the Acropolis and fill up the vacant space within the wall.
Effect of explosion:--The plate broken into three pieces, and substructure crushed.
Effect of explosion:--The plate was broken into four pieces, and substructure crushed.
The masonry of the wall under these windows and the two lancets by which it is pierced indicate that advantage had been taken of an earlier building to form the substructure of the library.
The style of itssubstructure shews that it was begun by his predecessor.
A terraced pyramid supported an altar or shrine to the southwest of the palace; at the west corner was a temple, the substructure of which was crowned by a cavetto cornice showing plainly the influence of Egyptian models.
Unfortunately, it is an afterthought, built of iron painted to simulate marble, the substructurebeing inadequate to support a dome of masonry.
In fact the complete restoration of Ulysses is both to Family and State, the two great institutions which form the substructure of the Odyssey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substructure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
