Retracing my steps to the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet, only one with six minarets, I entered the courtyard, with a gallery supported by pointed arches running around it and a fountain in the middle.

The tenth Umayyad caliph, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, built a palatial complex known as Khirbet al-Mafjar about one mile north of Tell as-Sultan in 743, and two mosques, a courtyard, mosaics, and other items from it can still be seen in situ today, despite its having been partially destroyed in an earthquake in 747.

Solomon Kohan is later revealed as one of the extremely long-lived " Wise " ( like Enoch Root ), and compares a courtyard full of inventors ' workstations to " an operation I used to have in Jerusalem a long time ago ," denominating either facility as " a temple.

High replies that daily, after they've dressed and put on their war gear, they go out to the courtyard and battle one another in one-on-one combat for sport.

Through it one reaches a large courtyard, at the end which is a wide staircase leading to the entrance of the church.

") is construction assistant, Fred Bennett ; and screenwriter Robert Bolt has a wordless cameo as one of the officers watching Allenby and Lawrence confer in the courtyard ( he is smoking a pipe ).

He also designed and painted the Loggia at the Vatican, a long thin gallery then open to a courtyard on one side, decorated with Roman-style grottesche.

To the north, the courtyard ( cour d ' honneur ) is extended by a wide public esplanade ( Esplanade des Invalides ) where the embassies of Austria and Finland are neighbours of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all forming one of the grand open spaces in the heart of Paris.

An elevated building on one side of the courtyard held the Basille's archives.

In a more contemporary version of the Chinese model, a courtyard can also can be used to separate a home into wings ; for example, one wing of the house may be for entertaining / dining, and the other wing may be for sleeping / family / privacy.

The medieval European farmhouse embodies what we think of today as one of the most archetypal examples of a courtyard house — four buildings arranged around a square courtyard with a steep roof covered by thatch.

Entering the house through the great north portico on the piano nobile, one is confronted by the marble hall designed to suggest the open courtyard or atrium of a Roman villa.

Through the arch of the gate one views across the courtyard a second equally massive gate, that beneath the clock tower, through which, rather like the sanctuary of a temple, one glimpses the Great Court.

" Other small domes can be inferred from the remaining ground plans, such as one in the courtyard of Ur-Nammu's ziggurat, and in later shrines and temples of the 14th century BC.

In the Hasidic story of an earlier episode among the " Holy Society " disciples of Dov Ber of Mezeritch, one of the great followers saw a page of Hasidic writings blowing around the courtyard.

As a Catholic missionary, Ricci strongly criticized the " recondite science " of geomancy along with astrology as yet another superstitio absurdissima of the heathens: " What could be more absurd than their imagining that the safety of a family, honors, and their entire existence must depend upon such trifles as a door being opened from one side or another, as rain falling into a courtyard from the right or from the left, a window opened here or there, or one roof being higher than another?

The pools remain, but the buildings which once hosted the island's affluent and colonial soldiers are gone, except for the remains of one central wall structure which has been preserved and incorporated into a fountain courtyard on the grounds of a popular tourist hotel and rest stop which has replaced the ancient Spanish ruins.

Bollhustäppan, a small courtyard at Slottsbacken behind Finska kyrkan, just south of the main approach to the Royal Palace, is home to one of the smallest statues in Sweden, a little boy in wrought iron.

" Alcatraz " was a special facility in a courtyard behind the North Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense, located about one mile away from Hoa Lo Prison.

The sculpture has since been moved to the courtyard of Morse College, one of the university's residential dormitories.

Nakhi houses are built in a standard Han style of one courtyard with one, two, three or four buildings around it, sometimes with linked adjoining courtyards.

But there were other homesteaders who passed the Lewis murder off as a personal grudge killing, the work of one of his neighbors.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

In one hand he gripped firmly a parasol though there had been no indication of rain.

Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.

No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.

In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;

A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating class of nearly one thousand at Yale ; ;

Thus the cocktail party would appear to be the ideal system, but there is one weakness.

These assumptions lead to an organization with one man at the top, six directly under him, six under each of these, and so on until there are six levels of personnel.

Within institutions there is a marked decline of the process of persuasion and the substitution of a force-fear process which masquerades as the earlier one of persuasion.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

In the range and variety of characters who, in their literary lives, get along all right with life styles one never imagined possible, there is an implicit lesson in differentiation.

But there is one in particular which, it seems to me, deserves special attention.

They had to take blood samples to the laboratory to test them, for one thing, and there was much required preliminary procedure.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

The problem of NATO is not one of machinery, of which there is an abundance, but of the will to use it.

He spent one year at the University of North Carolina because Thomas Wolfe went there.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

For one thing, there wasn't going to be any ceremony at all this year.

The unstable political situation there represents one reason new plants shy away from the East Side.