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front and windows
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
In front of the large windows, as if they were pillars that support the complex stone structure, there are six fine columns that seem to simulate the bones of a limb, with an apparent central articulation ; in fact, this is a floral decoration.
The Earnhardt team car, the RCR number 29 Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick, still always displays the Earnhardt stylized number 3 on the " B " posts ( metal portion on each side of the car to the rear of the front windows ) above the number 29.
* Panel front door centered, topped with rectangular windows ( in door or as a transom ) and capped with an elaborate crown / entablature supported by decorative pilasters
This generally requires the rear of the vehicle to be extensively altered ; commonly, the rear roof is cut away from the front windows back and all interior parts are removed from the rear as well.
Book presses came to be arranged in carrels ( perpendicular to the walls and therefore to the windows ) in order to maximize lighting, with low bookcases in front of the windows.
In 1989, Mazda introduced the MPV, which featured a swing-out door with roll-down windows and was the first Japanese minivan with a front engine.
Equipped with manual steering, manual windows and door locks, sunroof delete, radio delete, AC delete, cruise delete, passenger side door mirror delete, wider 15x7 phone dial alloys for the rear while retaining 15x6 in front, and the M030 package which included stiffer springs and Koni shocks.
A number of security measures were added to the exterior of New Scotland Yard during the 2000s, including concrete barriers in front of ground-level windows as a countermeasure against car bombing, a concrete wall around the entrance to the building, and a covered walkway from the street to the entrance into the building.
Forester L comes with a high level of standard equipment, including ABS, air conditioning, power windows, power locks, cruise control, digital temp gauge, multi-reflector halogen headlights, fog lights, roof rack, rear window defogger, trailer harness connector, reclining front bucket seats with adjustable lumbar support, tilt steering, tinted glass, AM / FM / cassette stereo with its antenna laminated in the left-rear quarter window, 24-hour roadside assistance.
A riot ensued, with the patrons of the cafeteria slinging cups, plates, and saucers, and breaking the plate glass windows in the front of the restaurant, and returning several days later to smash the windows again after they were replaced.
Jimmy's younger sister, Alison, was sent to the shops minutes before the attack Mrs. Kemp is seen shielding her youngest son, Michael, as a blast blows in the front windows of the house.
The pilots of manned aircraft operate them from a cockpit located at the front or top of the fuselage and equipped with controls and usually windows and instruments.
Until 1855 diving helmets were equipped with only three circular windows ( for front, left and right sides ).
The term is also used to describe full-fledged station wagons ( passenger car front sheetmetal, back seats, windows all around ) and even hatchbacks with a basic trim package intended for commercial use.
Indicative of the car's utilitarian design, the interior featured painted metal surfaces, a metal dash consolidating instruments in a single, circular binnacle, adjustable front seats, a fold-down rear seat, optional swing-out rear windows, front windows with pivoting vent windows, heating via air-to-air exchange manifolds operating off the engine's heat, and a windshield washer system that eschewed the complexity and cost of an additional electric pump and instead received its pressurization from the car's spare tire ( located in the front luggage compartment ) which was accordingly overinflated to accommodate the washer function.

front and place
The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.
The actual surface becomes both ground and background, and it turns out -- suddenly and paradoxically -- that the only place left for a three-dimensional illusion is in front of, upon, the surface.
Richard M. Forbes's Paget, which had what seemed to be a substantial lead in the early stages, tired rapidly nearing the wire and was able to save place money only a head in front of Glen T. Hallowell's Milties Miss.
In social games, the players may make their calls orally ; otherwise, players use a bidding box containing cards for each possible call and place the respective card face up on the table in front of their position.
A black Gl and a Chinese soldier place the flag of their ally on the front of their jeep, truck convoy on the Stilwell Road, Burma, 1945
One plane crash was said to have taken place in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida, in front of hundreds of witnesses ; a check of the local papers revealed nothing.
IRA members openly mounted roadblocks in front of the media, and daily clashes took place between nationalist youths and the British Army at a spot known as " aggro corner ".
The clear implication is that to bare one's throat would be tantamount to suicide ( which Jewish law forbids ) and it would also be considered helping a murderer kill someone and thus would " place an obstacle in front of a blind man " ( i. e., makes it easier for another person to falter in their ways ).
Rackmounts are most commonly used in recording studios and " front of house " live sound mixing situations, though many musicians use them in place of stompboxes.
In these cases, the front line, FEBA, FLOT and FLET are almost conceptual ideas ; and the term ' front line ' has come to refer more to any place where bullets and bombs are flying-or are likely to fly.
Filming for the series took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California in front of a live studio audience.
In addition to other attractive prizes awarded to the top 3 winners in each division, the first place winner of the Adult Division is invited to perform on the main stage of the Bean Blossom Blues Fest later that evening in front of a crowd of several thousand.
The front teeth are inclined slightly forward and outward, thus allowing the killer whale to withstand powerful jerking movements from its prey while the middle and back teeth hold it firmly in place.
One method of opening is where the blade exits out the front of the handle point-first and then is locked into place ( an example of this is the gravity knife ).
Technologists are relearning the fact that sound architecture, practiced up front, helps businesses avoid costly and risky rewrites in the first place.
It is common to stick the heart to a window or place it in front of the doormat.
In some theaters, the orchestra is the area of seats directly in front of the stage ( called primafila or platea ); the term more properly applies to the place in a theatre, or concert hall reserved for the musicians.
Directly in the centre of one of them I particularly noticed a very large dog, sitting in front of the door or entrance to his burrow, and by his own actions and those of his neighbors it really seemed as though he was the president, mayor, or chief — at all events, he was the ' big dog ' of the place.
Nevertheless, its exact position showed that the platz was starting to be opened out: the former hotel had mostly stood on a large flagged area laid out in front of it, indicating that the new building curved away from the existing street line ; this would have enabled future street widening to take place.
During the Berlin Blockade, the Uprising of 1953 and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Rudolph-Wilde-Platz in front of the building became a gathering place for protest rallies.
Image of a traversable wormhole which connects the place in front of the physical institutes of Tübingen University with the sand dunes near Boulogne sur Mer in the north of France.
they may have a ' cuddy ' cabin, where the front part of the hull has a raised solid roof to provide a place to store equipment or to offer shelter from wind or spray.
As Observance unfolds, the line slowly advances, with each person pausing at the front of the line in a state of intense — though quiet — grief, before ceding their place to the next person in line.

front and were
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
When they reached the school, a gang of boys and girls were already there playing `` crack the whip '' in front of the schoolhouse.
The manservant Devol and his mistress, Delphine Lalaurie, were pursuing a young girl -- an octoroon of cameo-like beauty -- across the front lawn of the Lalaurie mansion.
Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.
Across the front of a yard and down the side, they were iron, either spiked along the top or arched in half circles.
front fences were covered with Virginia creeper or trumpet vines or honeysuckle.
This year, on a night cool with the front of September moving in, but with plenty of summer still about, the Podgers were holding a neighborhood gathering in the Pod.
The yards, front and back, were narrow ; ;
In the very front rank, two men were wounded and staggered along, trailing blood behind them.
The front of their column had already passed us, when another officer came riding down the side of the road, not five paces from where we were.
He handed Harold a key to the front door, and cautioned him against leaving it unlocked while they were out of the apartment.
Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.
Already the jonquils were blooming in a flock by the front gate, and the periwinkles were coming on, blue by the porch steps.
It was late, we were playing kissing games, and Jessica and I were called on to kiss in front of the others.
Suppose the lines in front of the movie houses were too long and we couldn't get in??
There were three houses in Salyer's Canyon just at the foot of a low bluff, the road winding along the top, entering above, and then passing down in front of the houses, thence to the Vermejo.
Johnny Rebs from the deep South who were plagued with diarrhoea after transfer to the Virginia front often informed their families that they were suffering from the `` the Virginia quickstep ''.
There were two front rooms, both dark behind their transoms, and there was no sound or light in the entire house to indicate that any of the occupants were awake.
The figures on the worksheet paper in front of her were jumping and waving around so badly it was all she could do to make them out clearly enough to copy them with the typewriter.

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