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...ng out of the tops of the J VOICES FROM THE PAST 450 trees, Greek pilasters by the sea. We are eating on a terrace overlooking the wa- ter, a...

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... But when I heare our Architects mouth-out those big and ratling words of Pilasters, Architraves, Cornixes, Frontispices, Corinthian and Dorike works...

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...ssers-by to note all its details. The casing of the door, formed by fluted pilasters, was dark gray in color, and so highly polished that it shone as ... ... had pulled the braided iron wire bell-cord which hung from the top of the pilaster of the doorway, and the servant-woman, coming from within, had adm...

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... tracery of the broken light above the door, the flutings of the paintless pilasters at the corners, and the round window set in the gable; and she kn... ...nd hanging their small pale blossoms above the crowd- ing grasses. Slender pilasters and an intricate fan-light framed the opening where the door had ...

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...r, faded gray, and adorned along the front, at intervals, with flat wooden pilasters, painted white. These pilasters appeared to sup- port a kind of c...

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... constructed in a most ponderous style, with a stone floor, on which heavy pilasters were planted against the wall, supporting arches that crossed one... ...licity of orna- ment. She was glad at the cherubim that fluttered upon the pilasters, and of the marble doves, hovering unexpectedly, with green olive...

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...second, going down, the stone wall on the left terminates in an ornamental pilaster facing towards the Thames. At this point the lower steps widen: so... ...eing out, there was plenty of room, he slipped aside, with his back to the pilaster, and there waited: pretty certain that they would come no lower, a...

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...red or—’ ‘One hundred it is. It’ll cost me three and six to get that there pilaster mended.’ ‘I thought so. What an out and out swindler you must have...

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...ld, it was not there! There was no door, no shop, nothing, only the common pilaster between the shop where they sell pictures and the window with the ...

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... vaulted walls of the burial recesses are supported by massive pillars and pilasters made of thigh-bones and skulls; the whole ma- terial of the struc... ... constructed in a most ponderous style, with a stone floor, on which heavy pilasters were planted against the wall, supporting arches that crossed one... ...licity of orna- ment. She was glad at the cherubim that fluttered upon the pilasters, and of the marble doves, hovering unexpectedly, with green olive...

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...ernor’s splendid mansion. It was a large brick house, decorated with Ionic pilasters, and stood in Garden Court Street, near the North Square. While t...

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...III THE TAVERN THE GATE OF BLANGY, built by Bouret, was formed of two wide pilasters of projecting rough-hewn stone; each sur- mounted by a dog sittin... ...he steward lived dispensed with the necessity for a lodge. Between the two pilasters, a sumptuous iron gate, like those made in Buffon’s time for the ...

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... vaulted walls of the burial recesses are supported by massive pillars and pilasters made of thigh-bones and skulls; the whole ma- terial of the struc...

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...e whilst Tom is being made ready for the imposing occasion. It is a spa- cious apartment, with gilded pillars and pilasters, and pictured walls and ce...

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...ht Elliston at his own house. It was a large, sombre edifice of wood, with pilasters and a balcony, and was divided from one of the principal streets ...

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...ooved walls painted pale green and white, a Corinthian portico, and fluted pilasters between the windows. From the high ground on which it stood a ser...

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...ed arches and diamond panes, divided from each other by a series of fluted pilasters surmounted by an entablature which hides an Italian roof, from wh...

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... the gallery. Rows of plants in pots, ranged on the balustrade between the pilasters of the arches, screened the corredor with their leaves and flower... ...ained still, her eyes fixed upon the house of the Avellanos, whose chipped pilasters, broken cornices, the whole degradation of dignity was hidden now...

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...ld, it was not there! There was no door, no shop, nothing, only the common pilaster between the shop where they sell pictures and the window with the ...

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..., when gates and their accessories were so elaborately treated. It had two pilasters of stone cut in facets, and the coping represented a reclining wo...

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...on resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes. Fluted pilasters, worked from the solid stone, decorated its front, and above the ...

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... station waiting-room. It was a new and enormous waiting-room, with marble pilasters, and frescoes depicting the exploration of the Chaloosa River Val...

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... ground, alike on each of the four sides. It is ornamented with Corinthian pilasters, but is not over-ornamented. It is certainly a structure creditab...

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...upon me, but when I hear our architects thunder out their bombast words of pilasters, ar- chitraves, and cornices, of the Corinthian and Doric orders,...

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...d white blossoms into the large stone vases that stood upon the two square pilasters of a curiously wrought iron gate, that dated from the time of Lou...

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...r. The apartments were inlaid with mosaic, and ornamented with columns and pilasters, in the taste of the country. M. de Montaigu, had all these super...

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...on a little portable 51 Henry James stool at the base of one of the great pilasters. The vesper service was going forward in splendid chants and orga...

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... favoured the architecture of an- cient Rome—chiefly by means of five lank pilasters, which stretched from the top of it to the bottom. Be- tween the ... ...cked the Cadchurch team. She stood up in the door- way between those stone pilasters and said, ‘No! Never again!’ and behind her was Wilbraham, whom I...

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...or most important floor, was architectural enough, with the aid of various pilasters and arches; and the stucco with which in the intervals it had lon...

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... On some patch’d dog-hole eked with ends of wall; Then clap four slices of pilaster on’t, That, laced with bits of rustic, makes a front. 52 The Poet...

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...eiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition house, library, Cornice, trellis, pilaster, balcony, window, turret, porch, Hoe, rake, pitchfork, pencil, w...

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... the sound Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a Temple, where PILASTERS round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architra...

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... sound Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a Temple, where PILASTERS round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Arch...

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...t its long walls, divided into narrow panels separated by an order of flat pilasters, pre- 152 The Arrow of Gold sented, depicted on a black backgrou...

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...e boxes, and such things, but invented pretty pleasure-houses adorned with pilasters, steps, and flat roofs. However, but little of this was completed...