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Species are diagnosed on the basis of carinal height and the nature and number of flanking rows or parapets.
Look at the gables, look at the pinnacles, look at the crockets, look at the parapets!
Each of these frontons is again distinguished by bordering ornamental turrets on its either flanks, which are carried beyond the parapets.
Its parapets, grand staircases and sheltered side gardens are used to great effect.
The parapets of the tower lined with ancient ballista, pots of boiling oil, and Vulcan AA cannon.
A young woman sat in an embrasure on one of the highest parapets overlooking the moat of the castle.
And framing the curving arches and flowing ramparts and parapets was the incredibly rich wood of the giant trees.
The carefully wrought and fully detailed weather vane, set high above the machicolated parapets of the building, at once attracts attention.
The building, rich with turrets, parapets, statues, and heavy baldachins, is greater than the sum of its parts.
Faces massed at windows and parapets all around the courtyard as the small convoy drew to a halt.
The architecture is Tudor style, complete with turreted parapets, fortified towers, arches and battlements.
The wind wound its blustery course around the towers and parapets of Castle Clifgard.
The imposing sandstone facade, steep pitched roof, decorated parapets and grand full length bay windows overlook well-kept gardens.
The attacks started when Surrey County Council's contractors began work on the bridge to replace the parapets.
The new Pavilion boasted great stucco arches and curvilinear parapets on each of its four facades and three-story towers at the corners.
The German soldiers even had a line of little Christmas trees along the parapets of their trenches.
If she shoves her head above the parapets to stand in the next general election, just wait for it and watch her get it in the neck.
Belonging to the first type were all the perimetrical beams acting as parapets and floor-structure keepers.
The slabs, balconies, parapets, piers and stair shaft had to be built monolithically in weekly lifts.
Much of the trelliswork was done away with, banks of grass replaced stone parapets, and gardens became more natural looking.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The parapets were raised, extra traverses erected, and the terreplein sunk.
The north front, the most ornamented, had large pointed windows and embattled parapets, lozenged with flint.
The crenelated battlements were transformed into mere parapets, the chemins de ronde into terraces and hanging gardens.
And these parapets are covered with sculpture in high relief.
The parapets were of sand or soft earth, unprovided with merlons.
Some of the parapets had to be 30 rebuilt for modernization.
From the parapets of Perugia are views of supreme poetic beauty.
The parapets of our terraced roofs were higher than my head.
The parapets in front of the hotels were usually fringed with fishers of all ages.
Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.
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