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At Prince Eugene's Belvedere Palace, Vienna, a sunken parterre before the facade that faced the city was flanked in a traditional fashion with raised walks from which the pattern could best be appreciated.
The garden planting, laid out within the former forecourt and in the slightly sunken grassed parterre square, was the work of Mrs Ellen Phelips, who lived at Montacute from the 1840s to her death in 1911, and her gardener, Mr Pridham.
To the landscape gardens designed by Lancelot Brown in 1781 have been added a parterre ( illustration ), grotto, the sunken Dutch garden created by Frances, Countess of Onslow in the late 19th century, and a Māori meeting house named Hinemihi.

sunken and garden
The largest commemorates the Royal Naval dead of the two world wars ; its central obelisk is by Robert Lorimer and was unveiled in 1924, while the surrounding sunken garden was added by Edward Maufe in 1954.
It is named for a large central wholesale marketplace which was demolished in 1971 and replaced with an underground modern shopping precinct, the Forum des Halles, whose open air center area is below street level, like a sunken garden, and contains sculptures, fountains, and mosaics.
Works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge Dublin, which consists of a bridge over the railway and a bridge over the river Liffey ( unbuilt ) and two tiered sunken gardens ; Heywood Gardens, County Laois ( open to the public ) consisting of a hedge garden, lawns, tiered sunken garden and a belvedere ; extensive changes and extensions to Lambay Castle, Lambay Island near Dublin consisting of a circular battlement enclosing the restored and extended castle and farm building complex, upgraded cottages and stores near the harbour, a real tennis court, a large guest house ( The White House ), a boathouse and a chapel ; alterations and extensions to Howth Castle, County Dublin ; the unbuilt Hugh Lane gallery straddling the River Liffey on the site of the Ha ' penny Bridge and the unbuilt Hugh Lane Gallery on the west side of St Stephen's Green ; a Lodge at Costelloe, County Galway ( that was used for refuge by J Bruce Ismay the Chairman of the White Star Line following the sinking of the Titanic ) and a hunting lodge near Rosapenna in northern County Donegal, most recently used as a youth hostel.
Surrounded by hills, it is a kind of a sunken garden -- a well at the bottom of the stairway of hills and highways -- so that it seems to be in a world of its own.
Originally created as a Victorian sunken garden it was remodelled by Lindsay in the early 1930s.
There was a rose garden and a sunken Italian garden with an ornamental pool at its centre.
Kensington Gardens was carved out of the western section of Hyde Park and designed c. 1728-1738 by Henry Wise and Charles Bridgeman, with fashionable features including the Round Pond, formal avenues and a sunken Dutch garden.
Poirot visits a sunken garden built for Mrs. Llewellyn-Smythe in an abandoned quarry, where he meets Michael Garfield, the handsome and talented young man who designed the garden.
The gardens are made up of different segments such as a rose garden, dutch sunken garden, kitchen garden, main lawn and hedge maze.
The town's main park is Milton Garden, which has an ornamental sunken garden, a skatepark and a play area.
The semi-circular sunken garden behind the corridor
The Second World War memorial takes the form of a semi-circular sunken garden located behind the corridor, to its north.
It contains the names of 24, 000 British seamen and 50 Australian seamen, listed on the walls of the sunken garden.
The estate of consists of extensive private gardens with stands of mature cypress, pine and oak trees, a boating pond, walled garden, sunken garden, out offices and a herd of rare native Kerry cattle.
Nevertheless, the character is recognizable in a number of cartoons, both by his appearance ( bald, stooping, sunken eyes ) and behavior ( e. g. turning the shower to a special " scalding " setting, feeding his garden plants on blood plasma, or releasing an eagle on the neighbor's homing pigeons ).
The sunken garden pool.
The sunken garden is the first of four main rooms ; the rectangular pool at its center that houses hardy and tropical water lilies is flanked by twin panels of lawn and two two olive trees, within the hedge of clipped Japanese yew.

sunken and design
* 1531: Guglielmo de Lorena dives on two of Caligula's sunken galleys using a diving bell from a design by Leonardo da Vinci.
With the simpler design of the old temple, Chavín de Huántar followed the U-shaped ceremonial center design accompanied by a sunken circular plaza.
* The Spanish Fountain-a relic of the town ’ s colorful historical past at the heart of the municipal plaza, has a unique sunken design, and was once the town ’ s major source of water supply ( invented by an Augustinian friar to channel water from an upland spring ).
The basic design of sunken ditches is of ancient origins, being a feature of deer parks in England from Norman times onward.
It is in sunken bed, shaped in a hexagonal design.

sunken and with
Abel Poupin, a tall man with sunken cheeks and deep-set eyes, got to his feet.
He was a square brick of a man with a moon-round face and sunken Polish features.
He was a man with fair skin, thin, emaciated, with a sparse beard, a slightly hunched frame, sunken eyes and protruding forehead, and the bases of his fingers were hairless.
A person with severe dehydration due to cholera-note the sunken eyes and decreased skin turgor which produces wrinkled hands
They have flowers with ovaries that lie below the sepals and petals, often deeply sunken into a fleshy receptacle ( the part of the stem that flower parts grow from ).
File: Juvenile French Angelfish near a sunken van, St. Kitts. jpg | Juvenile Black or Grey Angelfish with a sunken van behind it
It became a common scene to observe melted Sheridan hulls with their sunken steel turrets sitting at odd angles with their gun tubes pointing towards the sky in various parts of the country, either awaiting final disposition, or simply forgotten.
In 1892, Robert Weir experimented unsuccessfully with xenografts ( duck sternum ) in the reconstruction of sunken noses.
They are composed of about 100 species of vermiform creatures and live in thin tubes buried in sediments at ocean depths from 100 to 10, 000 m. They can also be found in association with hydrothermal vents, methane seeps, with sunken plant material or whale carcasses.
The Romans built a high-quality road, with layers of cemented stone over a layer of small stones, crowned, drainage ditches on either side, low retaining walls on sunken portions, and dirt pathways for sidewalks.
Fungal diseases include wirestem, which causes weak or dying transplants ; Fusarium yellows, which cause stunted and twisted plans with yellow leaves ; Alternaria blight, which causes yellow leaves ; downy mildew, which causes pale leaves with white growths on bottoms ; and black leg, which causes sunken areas on stems and gray-brown spotted leaves.
Fester is a bald, barrel-shaped man with dark, sunken eyes and a devilish grin.
* Javert is in the book described as a tall man, with a small head, sunken eyes, large sideburns and long hair hanging over his eyes.
* Multi-step: A series of waterfalls one after another of roughly the same size each with its own sunken plunge pool.
Dermabrasion is useful for scar removal when the scar is raised above the surrounding skin, but is less effective with sunken scars.
There, she used to meet up with the moon goddess Selene, who cast her light on the ocean, revealing the sunken island of Patmos.
Eliot talks of Macavity's virtues in stealth, his tall and thin stature with sunken eyes and a domed forehead.
E. Lee Spence, a pioneer underwater archaeologist and prolific author of books and articles about shipwrecks and sunken treasure discovered, with the help of Isle of Palms residents Wally Shaffer and George Campsen Esq., many shipwrecks along the shores of the Isle of Palms in the 1960s.
At one stage, during the General Strike of 1926, the salvage operation was about to grind to a halt due to a lack of coal to feed the boilers for the water pumps, until Cox ordered that the abundant fuel bunkers of the sunken battlecruiser Seydlitz be broken into to extract the coal with mechanical grabs, allowing work to continue.

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