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* The Nether ( or Lower ) Cross, a 9th century granite cross with ornate carving, in the graveyard of St. Canice's Church, established by St. Canice, Finglas village, Dublin.
In the 1960s, the original storefronts were rediscovered and many architectural features from a century earlier had survived intact including decorative brickwork, granite archways, ornate marble, cast-iron pilasters, hand-carved wooden posts, and gas street lamps.
“ Let the reader try to fancy it ; let him first look down on the arena, and see it glistening in its frame of dull-gray granite walls ; let him then, in this perfect field, see the chariots, light of wheel, very graceful, and ornate ... let the reader see the accompanying shadows fly ; and, with such distinctness as the picture comes, he may share the satisfaction and deeper pleasure of those to whom it was a thrilling fact, not a feeble fancy .”
The ornate building is designed in an Art Deco style, constructed of limestone, granite, and several types of marble.
The ornate class-A office building was constructed of steel, limestone, granite, and marble between 1919 and 1923 and listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1985.
* Peoria attorney Jay Janssen s suite — " A large, ornate Oriental rug covers most of the green-carpeted suite, which includes six candelabra wall sconces, a chandelier in the center, cherry wood cabinetry and chair rail, decorative border print, a green marble-topped table, a rose-colored granite pedestal bar overlooking the field and burgundy leather stools and chairs.
The main church, cruciform in the “ transitional style from Norman to Early English with a clear French influence ”, is an ornate structure built of local granite with Caen stone dressings, with a high altar with solid round pillars and the nave supporting towering arches.

ornate and drinking
David then invites Michael to the gang's lair, a once-luxurious hotel sunken by an earthquake, where he is put through an unsettling initiation that includes drinking from an ornate wine bottle.

ornate and bowl
The double-story form developed similarly, except that some ornate forms then extended the tail back to the right, and to the left again, forming a closed bowl or loop.

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19th century craftsmen were famed for their ornate wooden hunting hats, which feature elaborate and colorful designs and may be trimmed with sea lion whiskers, feathers, and ivory.
* Chapel of Saint Vartan-on the north side of the Chapel of Saint Helena is an ornate wrought iron door, beyond which a raised artificial platform affords views of the Quarry, and which leads to the Chapel of Saint Vartan.
They are ornate, often with feet and lids to which figurines may be attached.
In Japan, hearses, called " reikyusha " ( 霊柩車 ), can come in two styles: " Foreign " style, which is similar in build and style to an American hearse, or a " Japanese " style, in which the rear area of the vehicle is modified to resemble a small, ornate Buddhist temple.
The ornate Buddhist-style rear area, generally constructed of wood and in which the casket or urn is placed, is built on top of this empty cavity and most often is wider than the base of the vehicle, so that it sticks out on the sides, over the rear body panels.
He left as a gift an ornate lampada ( oil lamp ) which burns constantly over the reliquary.
Lyon & Healy produces one of the most ornate and elaborate harps in the world, the Louis XV, which includes carvings of leaves, flowers, scrolls, and shells along its neck and kneeblock, as well the soundboard edges.
Inside that synagogue's ruins was discovered a rectangular stone, which had on its surface, among other ornate carvings, a depiction of the seven-branched menorah differing markedly from the depiction on the Arch of Titus, probably carved by an eyewitness to the actual menorah present at the time in the Temple at Jerusalem.
One of the concerns of the age was to find a suitable style for the discussion of scientific topics, which needed above all a clear exposition of facts and arguments, rather than the ornate style favored at the time.
Any of several Hebrew scripts may be used, most of which are fairly ornate and exacting.
Rococo architecture, as mentioned above, was a lighter, more graceful, yet also more elaborate version of Baroque architecture, which was ornate and austere.
An ornate music pavilion is also present, where the local " Philharmonikes " ( Philharmonic Orchestras ) ( Φιλαρμονικές ), mount classical performances in the artistic and musical tradition for which the island is well-known.
The Arts and Crafts style was partly a reaction against the style of many of the items shown in the Great Exhibition of 1851, which were ornate, artificial and ignored the qualities of the materials used.
The wrestler will change first into his keshō-mawashi, an ornate, embroidered silk ' apron ', which he will wear during the ring entering ceremony, or dohyō-iri.
In the three orders of Ancient Greek architecture, the sculptural decoration, be it a simple half round astragal, a frieze of stylised foliage or the ornate sculpture of the pediment, is all essential to the architecture of which it is a part.
This can be seen in the more Roman-influenced Federal structure's ornate, colossal Corinthian columns of its façade, which is also embellished by Corinthian pilasters and a symmetric arrangement of sash windows piercing the two stories of the façade.
Pre-1778 artifacts that never left the city since its founding include the Vajradhara statue made by Zanabazar himself in 1683 ( the city's main deity kept at the Vajradhara temple ), a highly ornate throne presented to Zanabazar by the Kangxi Emperor ( before 1723 ), a sandalwood hat presented to Zanabazar by the Dalai Lama ( c. 1663 ), Zanabazar's large fur coat which was also presented by the Kangxi Emperor and a great number of original statues made by Zanabazar himself ( e. g. the Green Tara ).
The beauty of the town's cultural inheritance, which has some Islamic influence, has been recognised by UNESCO, which includes four churches in the World Heritage Site Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon, notably the town's ornate cathedral in the Mudéjar style.
With their early records, Mercury Rev offered experimental, psychedelic rock, which gradually shifted to a melodic, ornate sound.
Similarly, the ornate and civilized minuet melody of Ach du min Moder ( Alas, thou my mother ) contrasts starkly with the text, which is about Fredman lying with a hangover in the gutter outside a pub, complaining bitterly about life.
The commercial boom in the town was by no means limited to just a few families, and permitted the construction of many ornate homes in Milltown and elsewhere, many of which have survived to this day.

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The characteristic part of the life-cycle of smuts is the thick-walled, often darkly pigmented, ornate, teliospore that serves to survive harsh conditions such as overwintering and also serves to help disperse the fungus as dry diaspores.
The casino building is an ornate late Victorian italianate wedding-cake structure which serves as the grand ballroom of the current establishment.

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These locations were open at all times of the day, featuring ornate tableware and reasonable prices.
They constructed stepped wells called Pushkarni or Kalyani, the ornate tank at Hulikere being an example.
Rich and ornate wood and stone carving can be found in medieval temple of Jagannath at Puri in Orissa.
The ornate buttresses surrounding the peak of the tower are especially visible when the tower is lit at night.
The ornate gothic style of the Doge's Palace ( and other similar palaces throughout Italy ) is replicated in the Hall of Doges at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington by architect Kirtland Cutter.
The last depot, that many older residents remember, was an ornate structure built in 1891 at a cost of $ 5, 041. 74.
The chapel at St. Gertrude's is among the most ornate in the state and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Original Plat Map Hathaway's ornate map of the little town " Medary Ville " was recorded in March, 1852, at the Pulaski County courthouse in Winamac, the county seat.
Following the Civil War, as surrounding agriculture became more profitable, the town expanded faster than it had at any time since the early days, and many large, more ornate buildings were built downtown, especially after a large fire in 1909.
Additionally, the city's main post office, an ornate federalist style building at the corner of Broadway and Essex Street, was razed.
This gateway is one of the finest carved castle gateways in Wales and is comparable with the much more ornate work at Newcastle near Bridgend.
In 1909-1910, the Ligonier Valley Railroad built an ornate station and headquarters building, which still stands at 339 West Main Street.
He constructed a theatre which improved the city s culture, and following the victory at Himera, he built an ornate temple dedicated to the goddess Athena.
Designed by Edward Durell Stone, the interior of the theater with its austere Art Deco lines represented a break with the traditional ornate rococo ornament associated with movie palaces at the time.
Whittingham won the President's Award, the People's Choice Award and the Best of Show Award at the 2008 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Portland, Oregon with an ornate fixed-gear bicycle that blended 1890s-style wooden rims and grips with modern hubs and a front disk brake.
Duchin had no formal music training — which was said to frustrate his musicians at times — but he developed a style rooted in classical music that some saw as the forerunner of Liberace's ornate, gaudy approach.
In Gann's description, piano works composed by Ornstein in his eighties, such as Solitude and Rendezvous at the Lake, featured melodies that " sprang through endless ornate curlicues that brought no other composer to mind.
Jean Wenner, 81 2006, and her friends grew up shopping at Kaufmann's, meeting under the store's ornate clock, lunching at the Tic Toc restaurant and bringing their own children to the Secret Santa.

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