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The street is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels ( opened in 1847 ), the Passazh in St Petersburg ( opened in 1848 ), the Galleria Umberto I in Naples ( opened in 1890 ) and the Budapest Galleria.
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The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.
It is always difficult, or at least time-consuming, to get approval of any kind of line under a public street, as one example.
Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.
Downtown Los Angeles is already two-thirds freeway, interchange, street, parking lot and garage -- one of those preposterous `` if '' statistics has already come to pass.
The downtown store continues to offer the great inducement of variety, both within its gates and across the street, where other department stores are immediately convenient for the shopper who wants to see what is available before making up her mind.
Public relations strategists everywhere, watching the reaction of the German press, the liberal press, the lunatic-fringe press, listening to their neighbors, studying interviews with men and women on the street, cried out: Too much, too much -- the mind of the audience is becoming dulled, the horrors are losing their effect.
This is particularly acute for those who attended Midwood High School directly across the street from Brooklyn College.
One of the offices slated for reconstruction is the aged Court of Claims, diagonally across the street from the White House.
One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.
He is the sort who, with an appraising eye, would cross the street to help a strange woman on to a bus and then pinch her.
Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.
Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.
So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.
Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.
" The American visitor " once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life " and " the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant.
Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.
A street sign in Vienna, " Fußgeher " is normally replaced with " Fußgänger " ( in English " Pedestrian ") in Germany.
The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.
* A street in Belgrade ( Serbia ), next to the Belgrade University Library which is one of the Carnegie libraries, is named in his honor.
It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America.
A deep ditch separated the city from its " suburb ;" its location is today marked by a wide street named " Graben " ( meaning Ditch ).
However, a special event to mark the signing is held every year on the 6th of April and involves a street procession and short piece of street theatre.
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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.
: Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage.
In the early 20th century, the Poltva was covered over in areas where it flows through the city ; the river flows directly beneath the central street of Lviv, Freedom Avenue ( Prospect Svobody ) and the Lviv Opera House.
Boyle later testified he noticed Ike was armed and covered his gun for him, recalling that Ike told him "' As soon as the Earps and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street, the ball would open — that they would have to fight '...
The weather has direct impact on how the game looks-on a rainy day, people are walking around with umbrellas, and on a snowy day, the street is covered with snow.
In June 1923 there was a huge flood, which covered the main street with 10 feet of water.
In former years, Noble had four hotels: The Cottage Hotel operated by the Black family ; the old Gertsch Hotel located on the north side of main street ( this was said to be one of the oldest buildings in town ); Hotel Hazel, a large frame building ( later covered with brick ), which was just north of the railroad on Noble Avenue ; and Truitt's OK Hotel in the northwestern part of Noble.
The original covered walkways are now being removed in favor of a more traditional main street thoroughfare.
The ring is a tin star provided with a hole at its centre, hanging from a ribbon strung above horseman's height across the street near the Cathedral, at which masked horsemen aim with their swords on steeds galloping at breath-taking speed, after being announced by trumpets and drums and having gathered pace down a route, covered with sand, snaking across the town centre.
The shopping street contains high street chains and a covered shopping centre.
Choco Mallows are usually covered in foil and sold in boxes of six, although street vendors and small corner stores may also sell them by piece.
Mall is generally used in North America to refer to a large shopping area usually composed of a single building which contains multiple shops, usually " anchored " by one or more department stores surrounded by a parking lot, while the term arcade is more often used, especially in Britain, to refer to a narrow pedestrian-only street, often covered or between closely spaced buildings ( see town centre ).
They argue that the bill will disproportionately affect transgender street sex workers, given that gender identity is not covered within New Zealand's Human Rights Act 1993.
Many restaurants and street stands serve the fish in a variety of ways: wrapped in paper and steamed, fried, highly-spiced or " a la diabla " and covered in garlic butter.
Borough Park street covered with snow.
In France and other European countries, there exist street markets, as well as covered marketplaces, where farmers and purveyors sell.
" The moat was finally covered over and filled in at the end of the 16th century, becoming the present street.
This development was sometimes chaotic, as it happened in 1985, when the new Unirii Boulevard was rerouted by mayor Dochia who ordered that the foundations of some blocks that were being built be buried during one night and the street to run over the covered foundations.
The architects proposed a covered shopping arcade that would preserve the style of an ancient Roman street using contemporary materials.
Passing through the principal entrance, a, which is removed from the street by a narrow footway surrounding the building and after descending three steps, the bather finds a small chamber on his left ( x ) which contained a water closet ( latrina ), and proceeds into a covered portico ( g, g ), which ran round three sides of an open court ( atrium, A ).
By the end of the 1920s, the street level had been raised by one and a half stories, and a five-block area was completely covered up.
* In Europe, especially in France and Britain, street markets, as well as " marketplaces " ( covered places where merchants have stalls, but not entire stores ) are commonplace.
Brixton Market comprises a street market in the centre of Brixton, south London, England, and the adjacent covered market areas in nearby arcades Reliance Arcade, Market Row and Granville Arcade ( recently rebranded as ' Brixton Village ').
He was once attacked and beaten by a street gang, leaving him so covered in blood that a priest was called to administer the last rites,.
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