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Sentence Examples A heavy cornice with dentils and modillions and a boxlike parapet with a decorative panel at the center crown the facade. The walls of the pool enclosure are running bond brick with a three-brick corbel at the top of the parapet wall. My first sight of a trench was of two greasy clay walls with a parapet on the top and duckboards on the bottom. A passing motorist found the car, which had hit the bridge parapet and rolled into a ditch near the river. His pace was brisk and he did not seem to appreciate the music of the sea waves breaking against the parapet. Typical of its period is the way the upper parts of the walls step back above the buttresses before reaching a straight parapet. Repairs included re-lining the nave parapet gutters with lead, re-covering the north aisle roof with steel, and re-pointing stonework. Speaking through an interpreter Mr Candia described a wall moving after they pulled out timber purlins supporting a parapet wall. Leaning on a stone parapet overlooking the Seine, a young man loses himself in a book held open in front of him. It also required raising the limestone crenellated parapet that runs along the roof battlement. In consequence we are becoming a tight-lipped silent majority afraid to rise above the parapet. Was the evidence that the applicant ran across the road diagonally at the bridge parapet and went over? When he looked again the water was as high as the peak of the parapet on the bridge, which is about 10 feet above the road. The steel-faced external wall extends into the house to mark the entrance, form a parapet and frame the fireplace. It happened when the lorry hit a bridge parapet on the north bound carriageway, near Charnock Richard services. You should be sure to form a parapet around the edges of the flat roof in order to contain your new upside-down roof from wind uplift. A pair of figures knelt behind the parapet of the balcony overlooking the ballroom. And it is true that the young have always been in love with edges, walking the parapet of a bridge when the pavement is right beside it. I would ask as his final gift a charismatic last hurrah before risking my untried head above the stormy parapet. The parapet is a steel-plated wedge with no need for handrails, and the boardwalk is gently inclined for wheelchair users. Show More Sentences The desktop itself was lost beneath teetering stacks of leather-bound volumes and slim folios that formed a parapet around the edges of the desk. The house I grew up in had a sort of an attached garage with a flat roof and a little parapet. The tub-shaped space within the parapet, formerly open to the air and sun, was now arched over by a light dome of lath-work covered with felt. To kiss this fabled rock first you must lie, arched backwards, leaning out from the castle's parapet with a 27-metre drop below. Eilish had, he said, the courage to put her head above the parapet and undertake the enormous task of logging the memories of the area. This is running off the parapet above and is caused from defective rainwater disposal at second storey level to the external balcony. Just below the machicolated parapet there are traces of the older crenellations. It raises its head up above the parapet now and then and when it finds me it bites me hard and makes me cry. You were not able to check whether there were any splits or tears in the lead in the parapet gutter? Three young men had a lucky escape after their car left the road, ploughed through a bridge parapet and ended up on its roof in a river. The look-out openings on the parapet and even the gun-holes that honeycomb the scarp, serve as ventilators. An internal spiral staircase connected the two, while around the top would have been a parapet providing a wide field of view. The cold was harsh and some found the food inedible and spat it out over the parapet. The barbette mounted the gun on a pivot so that it could fire over a parapet. After the World Cup debacle, a few brave men put their heads above the parapet to question whether the coach should be retained. Notable features are the parapet above the third-floor cornice and the segmental window frames. Harry heard the scream of an incoming shell, as he went to dive for cover, the round burst on the parapet, directly above him. The house is two storeys high, excluding a deep basement and an attic storey tucked behind the parapet which hides the hipped roof. The edge of berm is protected by erecting parapet wall of dry stone masonry in Gabion structure. They sat at one of the better tables up beside the parapet overlooking the courtyard. Show More Sentences Not that Alliance Trust, the venerable investment trust company, minds keeping its head below the parapet. During Diwali, for instance, it was difficult to tell if the diyas were lit on the parapet of our house or on that of our Hindu neighbours. There is little sign of satisfaction among the crowd of suppliants, relegated after the audience to the external space beyond the parapet on the right. You know, every time something happens and then the dust settles and they begin to raise their head over the parapet, they're then shot down again with yet more revelations. Sadiq dropped over the parapet and into the trench beside him. Only the Conference of the Religious in Ireland dares to poke its head above the parapet, and that is to preach radical-left redistributionism, not conservative-right dogma. Use the same type of masonry units in both exposed wythes of the parapet. Elsewhere, late afternoon sun seems to signal the coming end, as it washes over a group of revelers on a parapet celebrating the suicide of the poet Petronius. Even as the camera recorded this blatant act of arson, on the parapet sat a group of women, one of them nonchalantly dangling her legs, watching the tamasha. At its top end, the trench opened out into a shallow circular pit that had been built up with a parapet of scree stone and mud from the valley bottom. Although a parapet from inside, outside this spoil creates the stub of a wall or 'mastaba' the sitting bench as it has become known in Arab Egypt. Admirably willing to raise his head above the parapet and defend his corner, the barrel-chested midfielder might even be said to epitomise Martin O'Neill's side. Erected within the existing parapet walls, externally it is a simple box of fibre cement sheet with black-painted cover battens and projecting hardwood window frames. The height of the parapet wall is usually kept as above the berm level. The real treasures of the parapet are the huge single beasts, a set of six designs, three living and three extinct, which are highly dramatic in their pencil work. The head of this family, atop his roof with the rest, poked his head gingerly above the parapet, fearing the worst. He left them at the edge of its northeast corner behind a parapet wall. Standing on a parapet of fictive marble, dressed in the brown habit of his order, St Francis gazes intently at a wooden crucifix held between his crossed hands. The lengths of lead in the parapet gutters were too long by modern standards, and in consequence thermal movement was liable to cause overstress in the lead. We were putting our head above the parapet and challenging everything. Show More Sentences He would not have stuck his head above the parapet without some form of political cover, never mind without a possible financial backer behind the scenes. While takeover speculation has been on and off the agenda for the best part of a decade now, as yet nobody has even popped their head above the parapet. Thank goodness someone in the county has the courage to stick their head above the parapet and challenge the validity of this quite outrageous system. Without wanting this to turn into some sort of awards ceremony, I'm just raising my head above the parapet here to say a big thanks to Tom for the past week's writing. Mr Baggs expected his decision to stand in the election would provoke controversy, but said he is prepared to put his head above the parapet for what he believes in. St Peter's, which dates back to the 12th Century, will stage the concert to build up its reserves after having to spend 60,000 replacing the tower pinnacles and parapet. Then, with a beating of drums, forty or fifty well-built villagers filed out of the temple and took up their stations along the side of the tank parapet. The height from ground level to the top of the parapet is approximately 110 feet. Both towers are machicolated and Caesar's Tower features a unique double parapet. A parapet protected the guns, a new entrance was cut into the main tower and other adjustments made. Then a German soldier popped up from behind a parapet and fired. Which is why no carpet bagger has so far dared stick his head over the parapet. It rises to a parapet without visible roof, a decidedly urban treatment in contrast with the roofy back. When he saw a second machinegun firing, he took a Lewis gun and found a high point on the parapet from where he could engage the gun. Other elements such as water tables and the roof parapet were structurally reinforced or replaced. Work included heightening the wall to include a second tier of higher arrow slits behind a new parapet walk. The other bodies were those of the choush that had fallen by my side, and the soldier who had been shot on the parapet. The three elliptical arches were built in 1854, although the parapet is slightly later, as it had to be rebuilt following damage sustained during the flood. Glazed lime plaster would be applied on the interior and exterior of the dome of the mosque while a parapet of glazed tiles merlons would also be restored. Deidre Mackle added that work to replace the stone parapet walls and provide vehicle restraint system on both sides of Gelvin Bridge on Legavallon Road has been completed. Show More Sentences In 2004, a member of the pressure group Fathers4Justice spent five and a half hours standing on the parapet by the balcony at the front of Buckingham Palace. Stephen stood up and went over to the parapet. Leaning on it he looked down on the water and on the mailboat clearing the harbourmouth of Kingstown. These picturesque craggy heights form the parapet of High Raise's southern plateau, standing atop the valley wall and the centrepiece of many views. But for a certainty, the 6 foot 4 inch Lincoln, in frock coat and top hat, stood peering through field glasses from behind a parapet at the onrushing rebels. Examples from Classical Literature By making the crest of the parapet quite independent of the escarp line he obtained great freedom of direction for his fire. In six days they completed the parapet, with a glacis on the opposite side. Sometimes, however, a parapet or pierced balustrade was carried on the corbel table enclosing the gutter. As he set foot on O'Connell bridge a puffball of smoke plumed up from the parapet. Spires of this period are not very common, and usually spring from within the parapet. The tricolor planted on the parapet was the signal for our troops to advance. He leapt on the parapet of the window, laughing as he leapt, and waving his sword in his hand. Corbel Table, a lino of small corbels placed at short distances apart supporting a parapet or arcade. Curiously, too, there were remains of an outhouse with a crenellated parapet, suggestive enough of a castle. Also the use of shrapnel made it impossible for troops to find cover on the terreplein of a work some distance behind the parapet. High walls with an embattled parapet surround the lower court, or ballium, which we enter by a gate defended by strong towers. The parapet above, including its cyma and corona, is one half the height of the parapet below. F G the berme, or place left to prevent the parapet from washing down into the ditch. He insisted on his ability to go, and with a companion he climbed over the parapet. Leaning on the parapet, he and Ryan stood for some time looking at the sea. The stone-work of the octagon must be completed by the restoration of the pinnacles and parapet. They passed out by the big gate and caught sight of the brown dwarf on the parapet of the stockade. On the parapet, in his old place, the brown dwarf squatted, expressionless as the Sphinx. The parapet is, of course, damaged, but the casemate embrasures are uninjured. High explosive of the kind the Germans use will pulverise the parapet of a trench and kill every one within reach. Show More Sentences Marsh turned away from the water, and stood with his back to the parapet. The parapet and corbelling were renewed about forty years ago. Use only the cutlass when you gain the parapet and ply like men. At the inner angle of the mound he met the sisters, walking along the parapet, in search, like himself, of air and relief from confinement. Guppy, refolding his arms, resettles himself against the parapet, as resuming a conversation of interest. The telescope reveals a parapet of scoria on the brim, as on Teneriffe. He had a vast coil of cord efficient for the purpose, which worked on a roller fixed on the parapet of the tower. He had hardly done it before they were under the parapet of the earthwork. It is surmounted with an embattled parapet with a turret at each angle. The whitish parapet makes the skyline to observers in the English line. The building rose from an island in the circling stream, so that this formed a perfect moat spanned by a two-arched bridge without a parapet. I was almost at the edge of the parapet of the listening post. It was a plain Gothic parapet, in keeping with the time-worn building. Mathieu slowly seated Marianne on the low broad parapet once more. My first vision over the parapet revealed but a mottled grey. Somebody was leaning out of my bedroom window, refreshing his forehead against the cool stone of the parapet, and feeling the air upon his face. Let us sit down on the parapet and try to realise the scene. Weevle are the possessors of those eyes, and they have been leaning in conversation against the low stone parapet under the trees. The parapet is revetted with timber, and the interior ditch is very wide. I saw her agonized face over the parapet, and smiled to reassure her. Show More Sentences When they came to the bridge, however, she halted, leaned on the parapet, and stared for a moment at the clear, brown pool, and swift, transient snowdrift of the rapids. The narrow glazed face, beetle-browed roof canopy and high parapet walls allude to the great anthropomorphic totem poles of indigenous Pacific Coast tribes. A quarter of an hour later I ascended the parapet and there found the king and the court assembled and gazing off in the darkness toward Merlin's Tower. The stone parapet and spandrel wall also requires extensive repair. Find more words! 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