Some of the substructures of the residence are still visible.
Until some twenty years ago extensive substructures were visible on the north-east of the church, affording homes for poor Greek families.
An examination of the ruins themselves and of the monuments figured upon the bas-reliefs shows us that these substructuresdid not always have the same form.
Further back rises one of those domes over square substructures whose existence seems to us so probable.
If theirsubstructures should ever be found and laid open, we have little doubt that arches as carefully built as those of the Assyrian ruins will be brought to light.
From the point of view of the special study on which we are now busy, the inhabited and visible part of an Assyrian building is less interesting than those channels hidden in the substructures which acted as drains.
The Villa itself lies partly hewn out of the sides of the steep rock, partly supported by a vast series of substructures whose arched vaults served as water-reservoirs and baths for the service of the house.
And so not only city walls but substructures in general and all walls that require a thickness like that of a city wall, will be long in falling to decay if tied in this manner.
Above the foundation walls, the ascending rows of seats, from the substructures up, should be built of stone and marble materials.
The summit and sides of this hill display the substructures of walls and buildings; and at least two edifices in a fair state of preservation rise against the background of sky.
Above the palace, within the narrowing tongue of the circumvallation, the space is occupied by the substructures of the keep, over which we clamber to the parapets of the outer wall.
On that side too there is a tower, projecting into the waves with the form of a wedge, and still joined to the north-eastern angle of the fortress by the substructures of a massive wall.
Issuing from the citadel or inner fortress, we examined the substructures of a curious building which had been recently brought to light by Mr. Marr.
What remains of the substructures of the walls of Aradus, Berytus, and Sidon, indicates the employment of large and fine blocks irregularly laid.
This platform or basement of unbaked brick on which the building was placed is met with everywhere, not only at Nineveh and Babylon, but from the beginning in the substructures of Mugheir, Tello, Warka, and Abu Shahrein.
The great substructures of the Haram esh-Sherif are the remains of Herod’s gigantic work.
The principal tell contained the substructures of a palace which was, two or three thousand years before our era, the dwelling of a prince named, according to Assyriologists, Gudea.
The palaces stand upon platforms like those of Nineveh and Babylon; but these substructures follow the Greek method of building.
The recent excavations which we have shortly described, though they have scarcely brought more than substructures to light, yet enable us to describe the Cypriote temples with some exactness.
The relics of these buildings of Titus are now remaining mingled with the substructures and lower parts of the Domus Aurea which they superseded.
These decorative paintings have, of course, suffered very much from damp and neglect, and all the principal features of the house have been destroyed by the substructures of the Flavian triclinium.
Gudea did not destroy the work of his remote predecessor, he merely incorporated it into the substructures of the new building, thus showing an indifference similar to that evinced by the Pharaohs for the monuments of a former dynasty.
Their disposition has been advanced to support the theory that the population of the Dieng lived in wooden houses, built on those substructures of stone.
The theory that the superstructures of stone have been carried away and the submerged substructures left because not so easy to get at, is just as plausible; perhaps a little more so.
There are various examples in walls and substructures of the Augustan period, and they are also found in vaults, where their purpose is undoubtedly to lighten the weight.
This long Piazza is built on substructures which connect the two hills on which Perugia stands; these substructures are said to be in some places built on the foundation of the Etruscan wall.
In those times men would not have neglected to utilize the massive substructures and walls.
The Palazzo del Comune, with its lofty arched substructures at the back, was the work of Margaritone d' Arezzo, but has been since twice restored.
Here substructures of a large building or group of buildings have been exposed, which are perhaps part of the Serapeum.
From the third long wall these rafters are joined and tied to the ends of the opposite rafters, so that they may not slip, and besides they are strengthened with substructures which are made of cross and oblique timbers.
The substructures in the interior which support the second set of rafters, and those on the opposite side which support the third, being not unusual, I need not explain.
The conflagration had caught an oil merchant's stores that were planted against the substructures supporting the temple.
The little feudal castle built on Roman substructures was wrecked by the Saracen corsairs in the thirteenth century.
Le Grand Fraxinet itself may be visited, but there remain few traces of the Saracen stronghold; some substructures and a cistern are all.
This appears to have been the case with the so-called tomb of Cucumella at Vulci, where two tall tower-like elevations still remain, which doubtless served as substructures for the terminating piers.
It must be remembered in this connection that the crumbling bricks to which the Mesopotamians were restricted would, in such high buildings, have demanded clumsily massive substructures and lower-story walls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substructures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
