English vocabulary examples in context: balustrade
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 1.
The priest's figure now stood upright in the pulpit, two-thirds of its bulk, crowned by a massive red face, appearing above the balustrade.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 2.
We were leaning over the balustrade of the bridge, looking into the Neva at this moment.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 3.
It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut stone, with balustrade with a double curve.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 4.
The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired from above.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 5.
The galleries were full of fashionably dressed ladies, leaning over the balustrade and trying not to lose a single word of what was being said below.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 6.
Finding a free place, Levin leaned over the balustrade and began looking and listening.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 7.
A moment later the balcony was as pale and luminous as a standing water at dawn, and a thousand shadows from the iron-work of its balustrade had come to rest on it.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 8.
Those I have seen, as yet, look like villas, with balustrades and Italian roofs, which has a curious effect in Turkestan and the neighborhood of Persia.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 9.
You enter Marmaduke Lodge by an exceedingly spacious courtyard, which forms an oblong square, divided into eight spaces, each surrounded by a balustrade; on each side is a wide approach, and a superb hexagonal fountain plays in the midst; this fountain is formed of two basins, which are surmounted by a dome of exquisite openwork, elevated on six columns.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 10.
At his feet were about twenty steps, steep, narrow, worn, almost perpendicular, without balustrade on either side, a sort of stone ridge cut out from the side of a wall into stairs, entering and leading into a very deep cell.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 11.
Zigzags of balustrades rose and fell, indicating stairs of terraces.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 12.
Some have great broad stone staircases leading down to the water, with heavy stone balustrades ornamented with statuary and fancifully adorned with creeping vines and bright-colored flowers--for all the world like a drop curtain in a theatre, and lacking nothing but long-waisted, high-heeled women and plumed gallants in silken tights coming down to go serenading in the splendid gondola in waiting.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 13.
As no ladders could reach the great heights, the men swung themselves down from balustrades and the capitals of pilasters by ropes, to do this work.
Vocabulary in context: balustrade -- Example 14.
The inside of the dome is figured all over with a monstrous inscription in Turkish characters, wrought in gold mosaic, that looks as glaring as a circus bill; the pavements and the marble balustrades are all battered and dirty; the perspective is marred every where by a web of ropes that depend from the dizzy height of the dome, and suspend countless dingy, coarse oil lamps, and ostrich-eggs, six or seven feet above the floor.
