Agreeable to a unique plan, with many of these structures the ground floor was wholly open and had the appearance of a shed whose massive stone pillars supported the masonry of the upper tiers of floors.
Pipes of copper, brass and tin, of different thicknesses rose above each other in tiers on one side of the wooden structure.
The long and comparatively narrow stretch of ground which formed the race course proper (arena) is almost surrounded by the tiers of seats, running in two long parallel lines uniting in a semicircle at one end.
At the foot of the tiers of seats was a marble platform (podium) which ran along both sides and the curved end, coextensive therefore with them.
The seats were arranged in three tiers (maeniana, section 337) one above the other, separated by broad passageways and rising more steeply the farther they were from the arena, and were crowned by an open gallery.
Automatically every rower on the port-tiers of the Nausicaä had run out his blade again.
The long tiers of benches and the gangways filled with rowers peered up at him.
His last work of importance was an essay on the Tiers Etat and its origin.
The general ground plan of the ruin indicates an inclosed court with surrounding tiers of houses, suggesting the eastern type of pueblo architecture.
At u there are evidences of two stories or two tiers of rooms, but those in front have fallen to the ground.
From the moment when he ushered her into his friendly, low ceiled drawing-room with its tiers upon tiers of book shelves, he admitted her on terms of equality to the miraculous order of existence that it was the privilege of her life to share.
Upon one of the banks a factory was built, and its six tiers of windows were so many golden spots of light like the flames of candles.
In leaving the rock, the writer kept his eyes fixed upon the lighthouse, which had recently got into the form of a house, having several tiers or stories of windows.
Then followed discussions in reference to the Tiers État, as to what the third estate really represented, and as to the number of deputies who should be called to the assembly of the States General.
The next day, the deputies of the Tiers État were directed to the place allotted to them, which was the common hall.
Moreover, the court hoped, in view of the continued opposition of the parliament, that the Tiers État would defend the throne against the legal aristocracy.
The careful watchers could count three tiers of guns through the glass, which proclaimed her a ship of the line.
The forecastle, in true Dutch style, had been built directly into the bows, so that the bunks, arranged threetiers high, formed a complete half circle.
In the lower tiers of cells there are many primitive ova with granular nuclei, and others in which the nuclei have undergone the granular modification.
A) is formed of severaltiers of cells, the outermost of which are very columnar and have less protoplasm than in an earlier stage.
The Tiers Etat (as they were then called) disowned any knowledge of artificial orders and artificial privileges; and they were not only resolute on this point, but somewhat disdainful.
No great difficulty, however, need be made about this, even where windows are found made in the inner wall, equally for the wide and the most straitened tiers of galleries.
It may not have meant so much to that great audience, many of whom could neither read nor write, but those tiers upon tiers of dark Spanish faces were full of earnestness and of a proud content.
The square below was crowded with men and boys, and even some hoydenish girls, many in fantastic masks and gaudy dominos, while the tiers of balconies were thronged with eager spectators.
The houses on the opposite side of the ditch had been entered by the mob; sashes were thrown up, or torn bodily out; there were tiers and tiers of faces in every window; cluster upon cluster of people clinging to every house-top.
The nobles complained to the king of the insolence of the tiers etat in asserting themselves to be the younger brothers of the same great family; "there is between them and us the difference between master and valet.
The Assemblee divided itself into thirty bureaux to facilitate the great work of creating the constitution, and the deputies of the tiers chose their presidents from among the nobles and ecclesiastics.
One of the very first of the questions to be settled was that of the number of representatives of the tiers etat.
These are the realtiers etat of the South, and are hardly worthy a thought; for they swerve to and fro according to events which they do not comprehend or attempt to shape.
He saw by the number into which bags and packets had been thrown that the upper berths were the favourites, but he concluded that the lowertiers were preferable.
On this, the logs were laid in tiers crossing each other, sufficient space being left between them to allow for the passage of the hot air.
These apartments were set in tiers or stories, as in a modern flat-house.
Basin rises upon basin, tier upon tier, each in turn destined to clog and dry and merge into the mass while new basins and new tiers form and grow and glow awhile upon their outer flank.
The wings contain each a broad hall, on each side of which are three tiers of cells, one above the other.
Castle William, on the west end, is a semi-circular work, with three tiers of guns.
The interior of the male prison consists of a narrow and lofty hall, upon which open four tiers of cells, one above another; those above the ground floor being reached by light iron galleries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tiers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
