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round and minarets
The golden domes, turquoise minarets, mosques, holy tombs, long lines of pligrims walking round the holy shrines were all sources of inspiration for the artist himself in which he later adapted and turned into artworks.
The minarets are double storied and round in shape ; projecting cornices surround the shafts up to the middle height of the minarets and a window fitted at this mid height provides ventilation and light.

round and tall
The fruit is a round to oval drupe 3 – 6 cm ( rarely to 8 cm ) tall and 3-4 cm broad, borne in a loose pendant cluster of 10-20 together.
alt = Black-and-gray 1980s-era base station, with tall round desk microphone
The building is of red brick with white stone quoins and has tall windows with round arches, arranged in pairs.
A stone wall, carven with figures, runs round it ; within is a grove of very tall trees growing round a great shrine, wherein is the image of the goddess ; the temple is a square, each side measuring a furlong.
The round tower is about 35-metres tall, and is in very good condition, although it is not possible to go inside.
The round tower at Glendalough, Ireland, is approximately thirty metres tall
Descriptions of Lucayan houses by the Spanish match those of houses used by Tainos in Hispaniola and Cuba: shaped like a round tent, tall, made of poles and thatch, with an opening at the top to let smoke out.
He was tall and slender, but with a round double-chin like Robert Morley's, and a sharp nose.
Angel food cake is usually baked in a tube pan, a tall, round pan with a tube up the center that leaves a hole in the middle of the cake.
A toque blanche ( French for " white hat "), often shortened to toque, is a tall, round, pleated, starched white hat worn by chefs.
He was described as being " tall and stout " and having " a round, moonlike yellow face " topped by " bulging eyebrows " and " sunken eyes ".
It comprises two big stones, one round with a hole in the middle and the other, at six foot, tall and slender.
Fisher was five feet seven inches tall and stocky with a round face.
::" if the day were bright, you observed upon the house – tops, stretching far away, a long dark path ; the shadow of the Monument ; and turning round, the tall original was close beside you, with every hair erect upon his golden head, as if the doings of the city frightened him.
What makes the place unique is the unusual riddle of tall pine trees flourishing round its vicinity.
The 6-foot tall, 190-pound Hejduk was drafted 87th overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 4th round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, after a year with HC Pardubice in the Czech Extraliga, after winning Czech Rookie of the Year with 11 goals in 32 games.
A tall spike of glass, round in section or flat sided.
The leaves are large, on stout 80 – 120 cm tall stems, round, with a diameter of 40 – 70 cm.
The round tower is some 30 metres ( 100 ft ) tall and can be climbed using internal ladders.
The gallery passes round three sides of a tall bastion and an assailant rushing through it would be under attack from the battlements of the bastion and from those of a high wall and strong tower on the counter scarp of the moat, which are so built as to face in that direction.
The chefs are identified by the shape of their toques: Oscar's is big and round ; Angelo's is short and rectangular ; Jacques ' is curved ; and Zorba's is tall and slender.
* Ellie Dee — Cherry's best friend, Ellie is tall, slender, and dark-haired, and wears large, round eyeglasses.
Between the pilasters in the transept there are tall, blank, round headed panels and, above them, roundels, common Renaissance decorative motifs.

round and graceful
:: His over-fondness for extravagant attitudes, frequently affected starts, convulsive twitchings, jerkings of the body, sprawling of the fingers, flapping the breast and pockets ; a set of mechanical motions in constant use ; the caricatures of gesture, suggested by pert vivacity ; his pantomimical manner of acting, every word in a sentence, his unnatural pauses in the middle of a sentence ; his forced conceits ; his wilful neglect of harmony, even where the round period of a well-expressed noble sentiment demands a graceful cadence in the delivery.
" The prince's lodgings are described as a " freestone building, three stories high, with fourteen turrets covered with lead ," being " a very graceful ornament to the whole house, and perspicuous to the county round about.

round and rise
* 2004 – The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
Deforestation continued to the more remote areas as a warmer climate allowed the cultivation even of upland areas. alt = Map of Wales showing the names of Celtic British tribes in their territoriesBy 4000 BP people had begun to bury, or cremate their dead in individual cists, beneath a mound of earth known as a round barrow ; sometimes with a distinctive style of finely decorated pottery – like those at Llanharry ( discovered 1929 ) and at Llandaff ( 1991 ) – that gave rise to the Early Bronze Age being described as Beaker culture.
The nave at Chartres features alternating round and octagonal solid cored piers, each of which has four attached half-columns at the cardinal points, two of these ( on the east-west axis ) support the arches of the arcade, one acts as the springing for the aisle vault and one supports the cluster of shafts that rise through the triforium and clerestory to support the high-vault ribs.
Giardello knocked Robinson down in the fourth round, and the 43 year old took until the count of nine to rise to his feet.
By his sixth bout, however, he had to rise off the canvas against Julio Guerrero of the Dominican Republic before winning on an eight round unanimous decision.
Although Max is initially supportive of Goofy's " distractions ", tensions start to rise between them when Goofy beats Max in the first round during the X-Games qualifiers, though his success is due to cheating by Bradley, who placed a rocket booster on Goofy's skateboard.
In the box T are two wheels ( as in Dr Long's sphere ) and two pinions, whose axes come out at V and U ; either of which may be turned by the small winch W. When the winch is put upon the axis V, and turn backward, the terrestrial globe, with its horizon and celestial meridian, keep at rest ; and the whole sphere of circles turns round from east, by south, to west, carrying the sun Y, and moon Z, round the same way, and causing them to rise above and set below the horizon.
But when the winch is put upon the axis U, and turned forward, the sphere with the sun and moon keep at rest ; and the earth, with its horizon and meridian, turn round from horizon to the sun and moon, to which these bodies came when the earth kept at rest, and they were carried round it ; showing that they rise and set in the same points of the horizon, and at the same times in the hour circle, whether the motion be in the earth or in the heaven.
Incredibly, Kim managed to unsteadily rise to his feet, but referee Richard Green stopped the fight and Mancini was declared the winner by TKO nineteen seconds into the 14th round.
At each of the four corners is a square tower surmounted by a spire, and, near the center of the complex ( and taller than the rest ) rise the pointed belfries and round dome of the basilica.
Due to the Kagyu tradition's particularly strong emphasis on guru devotion and guru yoga, and the personal transmission of esoteric instructions ( dam ngag or man ngag ) from master to disciple, the early Kagyu tradition soon gave rise to a bewildering number of independent sub-schools or sub-sects centered round individual charismatic Kagyu teachers and the hereditary lineages as well as mindstream emanation lineages.
Hearns managed to rise, but was dropped again near the end of the round.
He landed a contract with Showtime and his stock began to rise, but it quickly fell after an upset loss to Fres Oquendo, who stopped Etienne in the eight round of their fight in March 2001.
It is closely associated with covering maps and their degeneration into ramification ; the aspect giving rise to monodromy phenomena is that certain functions we may wish to define fail to be single-valued as we ' run round ' a path encircling a singularity.
This locally secreted factor gives rise to a series of outside-in and inside-out positive feedback between these two types of cells, so that mammary bud epithelial cells can get to proliferate and sprout down into the mesenchymal layer until they reach the fat pad to begin the first round of branching.
In 1986, the surprising rise of Mário Soares, who reached the second round in the presidential election, defeating the party's candidate, Salgado Zenha, made the party call an extra congress.
This may have given rise to the Qin pipa, which had a straight neck and a round sound box, along with twelve frets.
There are, however, positive signs of increased activity: The number of visits from emigrant Arniotes is on the rise, year round.
The rise of Bayrou's poll numbers in February, however, complicated this " Sarko-Ségo " scenario, and raised the distinct possibility that the Parti Socialiste candidate would be excluded from the second round for a second straight election cycle, following the humiliating defeat of former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 2002 at the hands of right wing nationalist Jean Marie Le Pen.
Props have become more and more specialized due in large part to realism as well as the rise of theatre in the round, where few sets are used and the simple prop becomes as important a design element as costumes and lighting.
This building fits the description of the " rotunda tabulata " described by Wace in his Roman de Brut of 1155, which may by mistranslation have given rise to the legend of the round table.
Elchibey's rise to presidency came after the first round of heavy losses of Azerbaijan in the war against Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

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