In particular the original wooden polychrome ceiling dating from the 17th century draws the attention of every visitor.

The ringer pulls on the sally and when the bell swings up it draws up more rope onto the wheel and the sally rises to, or beyond, the ceiling.

; Chapter 7: One priest, who had been suffering an epileptic seizure during Grignr's attack, recovers, draws a scimitar and follows Grignr and Carthena through the trap door in the ceiling.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

She went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.

Keep straight ahead on the Via Falegnami, cross the wide Via Arenula, and you will come to the Piazza B. Cairoli, where you should look in at the Church of San Carlo Ai Catinari to see the frescoes on the ceiling.

Hastily the boy switched on a ceiling light.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

Then he thought of those Old Testament figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Image: Park_Guell_Tile. jpg | Another of Gaudí's Tiled Mosaics on the ceiling.

Though aware of the plot, Agrippina embarked on this boat and was nearly crushed by a collapsing lead ceiling only to be saved by the side of a sofa breaking the ceiling's fall.

Nonetheless, a badminton court will not be suitable if the ceiling is likely to be hit on a high serve.

In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:

On July 10, 2006, a concrete ceiling panel weighing 3 tons ( 2722 kg ) and measuring 20 by 40 ft ( 6. 1 by 12. 2 m ) fell on a car traveling on the two-lane ramp connecting northbound I-93 to eastbound I-90 in South Boston, killing Milena Del Valle, who was a passenger, and injuring her husband, Angel Del Valle, who was driving.

alt = A man caving in muddy passage with helictite formations on the walls and ceiling

And though, on orders from the hanging Committee and the Marquis de Chennevières, Pissarro's paintings of Pontoise for example had been skyed, hung near the ceiling, this did not prevent Jules-Antoine Castagnary from noting that the qualities of his paintings had been observed by art lovers.

With his golden ear, Porter found the studio's acoustics to be problematic, and he devised a set of acoustic baffles to hang from the ceiling, then selected positions for microphones based on resonant room modes.

The term " glass ceiling " is used to describe a perceived barrier to advancement in employment based on discrimination, especially sex discrimination.

It was probably Algarotti who introduced his friend Tiepolo to Karl Philipp von Greifenclau zu Vollraths where he painted his masterwork on the ceiling of the main hall of the bishopric residence.

The simplest form of effective fan to cool a shelter is a wide, heavy frame with flaps that swing in the shelter's doorway and can be swung from hinges on the ceiling.

The arms limitation agreement set a ceiling on the size of each nation's military forces ( 2, 500 men for Honduras ) and included a United States-sponsored pledge to seek foreign assistance in establishing more professional armed forces.

Another dome, made of wood, is reported in contemporary sources to have covered a dining hall in the palace, and may have been fitted such that perfume might spray from the ceiling.

In 1999 the hillside village of Carros in the south of France commissioned Anne Madden to paint a large vaulted ceiling painting measuring 900 × 600 cm for its medieval castle, which opened last year as an international contemporary art centre.

The Raft of the Medusa fuses many influences from the Old Masters, from the Last Judgment and Sistine Chapel ceiling of Michelangelo ( 1475 – 1564 ) and Raphael's Transfiguration, to the monumental approach of Jacques-Louis David ( 1748 – 1825 ) and Antoine-Jean Gros ( 1771 – 1835 ), to contemporary events.

On the unique flat panelled ceiling of the nave ( first half of the 16th Century ) are the heraldic shields of the contemporary kings of Europe, and the chief earls and bishops of Scotland.

The stained glass windows in the present building stem from Steiner's time ; the painted ceiling and sculptural columns are contemporary replications or reinterpretations of those in the First Goetheanum.

Dosso Dossi produced another large bacchanal, and he also contributed ceiling decorations and a painted frieze for the cornice, depicting scenes from the Aeneid, which gained immediacy by showing the heroes in contemporary dress ( illustration, left ).

It also formally limited state debt, a predecessor of many contemporary " debt ceiling " clauses.

Prior to liberalization measures, the Central Bank of Honduras ( Banco Central de Honduras ) maintained interest rate controls, setting a 19 percent ceiling, with the market lending rate hovering around 26 percent in late 1991.

This ceiling represents Lord Burlington's interest in architecture.

Regulations were altered for foreign banks to open branches and the ceiling on bank interest rates was lifted.

Also of interest to some modern scholars is the question of how Michelangelo's own spiritual and psychological state is reflected in the iconography and the artistic expression of the ceiling.

It was long believed that the ceiling was painted with frescos depicting the Arts and four Seasons to give Queen Adelaide something of interest to look at while lying sick in bed.

Of particular interest are The Holy Trinity on the ceiling and The Annunciation on the wall facing the altar.

The nave roof has a ceiling, the painted imitation-plasterwork in the covings being of interest, believed to be 18th century work.

Its ceiling was refinished to include a series of inwardly-sloped sections for visual interest.

The theater was closed during the mid-1990s after water from a leaking concrete planter above the theater collapsed parts of the ceiling, but has since been renovated due to recent interest in the building.

From opposing ideological viewpoints, the two columnists addressed topics of current interest, questions such as whether the glass ceiling was a myth, whether American women should serve in combat, and whether surrogate motherhood should be banned.

At the outset there was a 5 % interest rate ceiling on NOW accounts, and it was binding: all New England institutions offering them paid the full allowable 5 % rate.

Beginning on March 31, 1986, as part of a general deregulation of interest rates, there was no longer an interest ceiling on NOW accounts, though interest was still prohibited on demand deposits.

Of interest to travelers is the town church built during the Spanish era and with its ceiling frescoes and Baroque architecture.

Reflecting the Princess Mother ’ s deep interest in astronomy, the ceiling in the reception hall is carved in the image of the solar system, with clusters of the different star signs.