The immense, overwhelming presence of Gormenghast Castle ; its ' umbrageous ceilings ', its ' empire of red rust ' and the way in which it shapes and deforms the personalities of those who dwell in and under it, marks Gormenghast out as one of the great Gothic edifices, as Hill House in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House or Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.

" with one fearful rush the demonic fire seized upon the doomed cathedral, and sooner than tongue could tell the immense edifice, a gem of Gothic architecture, the masterpiece of Sir Gilbert Scott and the pride of every Newfoundlander, was a seething mass of flame.

Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild ( d. April 13, 586 ) (, from Gothic Ermen Gild, " immense tribute "), was the son of king Leovigild of Visigothic Spain.

In the early 14th century the Perpendicular Gothic style was created in England, with an emphasis on verticality, immense windows and soaring arcades.

Given the size of the Catholic community at the time, the massive bluestone Gothic cathedral was an immense and very expensive undertaking, and there were long delays while funds were raised.

Construction of the Temple, an immense German Gothic structure located near Lake Michigan and across from the Northwestern University campus, was started in 1929, and the building was dedicated in the winter of 1930.

His building activity at Babylon was what turned it into the immense and beautiful city of legend.

Until the early 20th century, the chief ancient buildings at Sparta were the theatre, of which, however, little showed above ground except portions of the retaining walls ; the so-called Tomb of Leonidas, a quadrangular building, perhaps a temple, constructed of immense blocks of stone and containing two chambers ; the foundation of an ancient bridge over the Eurotas ; the ruins of a circular structure ; some remains of late Roman fortifications ; several brick buildings and mosaic pavements.

They say that in 1720, a Brazilian Jesuit, named Bartholomew Gusmao, possessed of abilities, imagination, and address, by permission of John V. fabricated a balloon in a place contiguous to the Royal Palace, and one day, in presence of their Majesties, and an immense crowd of spectators, raised himself, by means of a fire lighted in the machine, as high as the cornice of the building ; but through the negligence and want of experience of those who held the cords, the machine took an oblique direction, and, touching the cornice, burst and fell.

Of this magnificent building, sometimes ranked among the seven wonders of the ancient world, thirty-one immense columns still stood erect in 1444.

In chapter 40, Gangleri says that Valhalla must be an immense building, yet it must often be crowded around the doorways.

In 1851 the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park was housed in an immense glass building, called the Crystal Palace.

Architecture flourished, attaining a high point with the building program of Shah Abbas in Isfahan, which included numerous gardens, palaces ( such as Ali Qapu ), an immense bazaar, and a large imperial mosque.

His immense learning served him rather as a storehouse of illustrations, or as an armoury out of which he could choose the fittest weapon for discomfiting on opponent, than as a quarry furnishing him with material for building up a completely designed and enduring edifice of systematized truth.

The " His Master's Voice " logo as rendered in immense circular leaded-glass panels remains in the 1915 factory building tower, now converted to apartments.

The Million Programme ( Miljonprogrammet ) is the familiar term for an ambitious housing programme implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 with the aim of building one million new dwellings in 10 years ; in the beginning strongly influenced by the " Garden City " developments in England during the 40's – 50's, but towards the end the developments were mostly built as single family homes along curving streets and cul-de-sacs and / or as immense tower blocks, similar to many residential districts built in Eastern Europe.

Enthusiasm for the immense new building soon spread among the population, and the shrewd Gian Galeazzo, together with his cousin the archbishop, collected large donations for the work-in-progress.

The failure of the Lebanese government to do so has led to the strengthing of Hezbollah's militants and to the building of an immense arsenal of 13, 000 rockets all aimed at civilian centers within Israel.

This also involved evicting 40, 000 people with only a single day's notice and relocating them to new homes, in order to make way for the grandiose Centrul Civic and the immense Palace of the People, a building second in size only to the Pentagon.

Although he preached the Message of God with immense zeal, his people refused to mend their ways, leading to his building of the Ark and the famous event of the Deluge, the Great Flood in which all the evil people of his time perished.

Many of these captains of industry, in addition to building the still fledgeling American economy, participated in immense acts of philanthropy ( referred to by Andrew Carnegie as the " Gospel of Wealth ") and used private money to endow thousands of colleges, hospitals, museums, academies, schools, opera houses, public libraries, symphony orchestras, and charities.

The current building was finished in 1709, and although immense — 57 m long and 50 m wide — it is actually 30 % smaller than its predecessor.

An avid collector of art, he accumulated immense debts in building and furnishing New Wardour Castle, designed in the Palladian style by Giacomo Quarenghi.

His great-great-great-grandson, the eighth Baron ( the title having descended from father to son ), was an avid collector of art and accumulated immense debts in building and furnishing New Wardour Castle.

Winston Churchill then sought information about building Britain's own diffusion plant, a heavy water plant and an atomic reactor in Britain, despite its immense cost.

The people who entered the massive building, spanning nearly, were generally awed by its immense size and extensive ornamentation.

After immense public pressure to save the building, it was purchased by the state in 1987 and was declared a National Monument.

The first building they would see across the Spaarne was the immense classical building of the Catholic Diocese ( now the Police station ).

The rapid growth and urbanisation of the population entailed an immense amount of new domestic and commercial construction, while the same processes combined with a religious revival to bring about a resumption of widespread church building.

On the columns around the immense dome are round plaques with Arabic writing.

They rode on mules with gilded bridles, rich saddles and housings, carrying hawks on their wrist, followed by an immense train of attendants.

On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.

His likeness, too, they fashion with an immense phallus.

A collection of immense importance, the holdings of Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian antiquities are among the most comprehensive in the world with entire suites of rooms panelled in alabaster bas-reliefs from highly important sites between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and include the biblical cities of Nimrud, Nineveh and Khorsabad.

The next big growth occurred with the advent of World War II, when large numbers of people moved to the Bay Area to work in the many war industries, such as the immense Kaiser Shipyards in nearby Richmond.

The emperor's role became more autocratic, although Zhu Yuanzhang necessarily continued to use what he called the " Grand Secretaries " ( 内阁 ) to assist with the immense paperwork of the bureaucracy, including memorials ( petitions and recommendations to the throne ), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records.

The immense debt resulting from Isma ' il's projects provided a pretext for increasing European control, which culminated with the British invasion in 1882.

The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.

Draugr also exhibit an immense and nearly insatiable appetite, as shown in the encounter of Aran and Asmund, sword brothers who made an oath that if one should die, the other would sit vigil with him for three days inside the burial mound.

On the international front, the Honduran government, after years of negotiations, finally concluded an agreement with the British bondholders to liquidate most of the immense national debt.

" High details that in this realm Hel has " great Mansions " with extremely high walls and immense gates, a hall called Éljúðnir, a dish called " Hunger ," a knife called " Famine ," the servant Ganglati ( Old Norse " lazy walker "), the serving-maid Ganglöt ( also " lazy walker "), the entrance threshold " Stumbling-block ," the bed " Sick-bed ," and the curtains " Gleaming-bale.

Soon after, the Picts come from Albania with an immense army and attack the northern part of the island.

As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!

The Juruá River ( Portuguese Rio Juruá ; Spanish Río Yurúa ) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.

Ribbentrop's habit of summoning tailors from the best British firms, making them wait for hours and then sending them away without seeing him with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process, did immense damage to his reputation in British high society.

The Phoenix Force, as Jean Grey, emerges in a new green and gold costume and adopts the new codename " Phoenix ", with immense cosmic powers.

' Combine that with an immense ego and you wind up with an actor.

They returned in 1806, bringing with them an immense amount of information about the region as well as numerous plant and animal specimens.

After the immense success of SimCity, Maxis experimented with different genres.

From the beginning of the 17th century the Dutch cannibalized the Portuguese Empire in the East and, with the immense wealth gained, challenged Spanish hegemony at sea.

During the 1870s, the Philological Society was concerned with the process of publishing a dictionary with such an immense scope.

D. W. Winnicott took a more positive view of a belief in early omnipotence, seeing it as essential to the child's well-being ; and " good-enough " mothering as essential to enable the child to ' cope with the immense shock of loss of omnipotence ' - as opposed to whatever ' prematurely forces it out of its narcissistic universe '.