The story recounts the encounter between a servant and an old woman in the dilapidated Rashōmon, the southern gate of the then ruined city of Kyoto, where unclaimed corpses were sometimes dumped.

From the gate in Ribcage the nearest site is the ruined city of Darkspine, where refugees desperately try to avoid the baatezu thought police while trying to do enough good to shift their town back to the Outlands.

On 26 November 1672, Pedro Vaz de Sampaio, master mason, was requested to replace the gate, since it was already ruined.

He built a small watch tower inside the boundary wall near the entrance gate and further along, a hermit's cave, a dolmen, a ruined abbey and beside a deep well, a tiny chamber with a stone bench and a narrow fireplace.

Akutagawa's use of the gate was deliberately symbolic, with the gate's ruined state representing the moral and physical decay of Japanese civilization and culture.

A square gate tower, largely ruined, guards the entrance to the inner castle, and may have been the first part of the original castle to have been partially constructed in stone.

Across the way from the apartment building is a ruined house, shot to hell that day in 1849, and left that way as a memorial.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

" He also owns a substantial 8-track tape collection, which is ruined in one episode by Beavis and Butt-Head.

In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.

The major part of the action in the Romance of the Forest is set in an abandoned and ruined abbey and the building itself served as a moral lesson, as well as a major setting for and mirror of the action in the novel.

Selene is seen traveling to the ruined island of Genosha with her followers who were resurrected by the Technarch transmode virus.

Other examples of jargon imported from the club are ' losing ' " when a piece of equipment is not working " and ' munged ' " when a piece of equipment is ruined ".

He travels through the " City of the Damned ", the ruined capital of the Sidhe ( its real name is revealed to be Silverspring in Heretic II ), then past Hell's Maw and finally

* If someone is careless when watering his fields, and he floods someone else's by accident, he will pay for the grain he has ruined.

Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: " Your Lordship congratulation on my succeeding Mr. Ramsay I take very kindly but it is a most miserable office, it is reduced from two hundred to thirty-eight pounds per annum, the Kings Rat catcher I believe is a better place, and I am to be paid only a fourth part of what I have from other people, so that the Portraits of their Majesties are not likely to be better done now, than they used to be, I should be ruined if I was to paint them myself ".

Knaresborough Castle is a ruined fortress overlooking the River Nidd in the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England.

Even if there is a war, the country may be ruined.

The ruined monastery is in the care of English Heritage, who also run a museum / visitor centre nearby.

However, his role in the massacre has permanently ruined his public image and thanks to the machinations of Doctor Sivana, he has lost most of his wealth and all of his control over his newly reformed LexCorp, which is now being run by Lana Lang.

For example, if one were to run their video signal through a VCR before the television, some VCRs will output a ruined signal regardless of whether it is recording.

The Temple of Olympian Zeus (), also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greek capital Athens that was dedicated to Zeus, king of the Olympian gods.

The Greek Ministry of Culture is currently carrying out a program of selective restoration and reconstruction to ensure the stability of the partially ruined structure.

The principle is that The Fall of Man ruined the human soul to such an extent that nobody wants a relationship with God.

Eager to know more about Deathshead and his secret projects, the OSA sends Blazkowicz to the bombed city of Kugelstadt (' Bullet City '), where he is assisted by members of the German Kreisau Circle resistance group in breaking into a ruined factory and exfiltrating a defecting scientist.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on these issues has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

* Statius Priscus reconquers Armenia ; Artaxata is ruined.

Malden Island, in the central Pacific, was deserted when first visited by Europeans in 1825, but the unsuspected presence of ruined temples and the remains of other structures found on the island indicate that a population of Polynesians had lived there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier.

The ruined cathedral became one of the central images of anti-German propaganda produced in France during the war, which presented it, along with the ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres and the University Library in Louvain, as evidence that German aggression targeted cultural landmarks of European civilization.

The town's two historical points of interest are the unique 14th-century three-sided bridge, Trinity Bridge, which stands at its central point and used to be the confluence of three streams ; and the other is its ruined medieval Croyland Abbey, which was dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Guthlac in the eighth century.

The central tower was rebuilt in about 1376 by a tall octagonal tower ( now ruined ), which held the monks ' bells.

The railway-related portions of the LNC site ( the waiting rooms, the caretaker's flat and the platforms themselves ) would pass into the direct ownership of the SR, while the remaining surviving portions of the site ( the office block on Westminster Bridge Road, the driveway and the ruined central portion of the site ) would pass to the LNC to use or dispose of as they saw fit.

The central figure, which is much ruined below the waist, is measured at high, is posed as if running.

One of Finkleman's central ideas was that the politicization of music in the mid-1970s ruined music, making it " mean spirited ", " pretentious " and " ugly ".

In times of war they were the central focus of armed conflict and would be sacked and ruined in defeat.

Although less central to modern conflict, vast areas of 20th century cities such as Warsaw, Dresden, Coventry, London and Berlin were left in ruins following World War II, and a number of major cities around the world – such as Beirut, Kabul, Sarajevo, Grozny and Baghdad – have been partially or completely ruined in recent years as a result of more localised warfare.

In 1646, the Parliamentarians were once again victorious, but the Cathedral suffered extensive damage: the central spire was demolished, the roofs ruined and all the stained glass smashed.

One of Finkleman's central ideas was that the politicization of music in the mid-1970s ruined music, making it " mean spirited ", " pretentious " and " ugly ".

* 1779 — A tropical storm ruined again the central group of the islands on the nights of October 30 and the 31.

Today the hermitage, still partly ruined, consists of five major sections ; a main temple compound around a central courtyard with a temple, kitchen, and some of the monks ’ living quarters, an extensive ruined terraced complex just south of the main temple which before 1959 served as the meeting rooms and the living quarters of the workers and business managers of the Drakri Lama ’ s estate, a building that had served as the living quarters for the eight fully ordained monks who formed the ritual core of the monastic community, a stable for mdzo, a yak-cow hybrid and several huts.

The setting of the action in a ruined abbey, drawing on Burke ’ s aesthetic theory of the sublime and the beautiful established the location as a place of terror and of safety.

By setting the story in the ruined abbey, Radcliffe was able to use architecture to draw on the aesthetic theories of the time and set the tone of the story in the minds of the reader.

In a 1984 interview, Agnagna claimed, contradictorily, that the film was ruined not because of the lens cap, but because he had the Super 8 camera on the wrong setting: macro instead of telephoto ..

In 1995, the ruined South Transept was used as the setting for the first Abbey Ruins Open Air Shakespeare production by MDM Productions and Progress Theatre in partnership with Reading Borough Council.

At one point a fifteen-foot camera boat capsized on the Keelung River, setting back the schedule because the soundboard was ruined when it sank.

But the " novel " has no emotional continuity … There are a few marvelous stories in this book, and one superb one Samurai and the Willows ", but they are ruined by a setting which exposes their worst weaknesses.

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting, the yuan-ti are found mainly on the continent of Hepmonaland, where they dwell in a number of ruined cities.

Swan coined the term “ sexual gothic ” to describe contemporary gothic novels that use the body as the site of the narrative the way 19th century gothic novels used a ruined building as their literary setting.