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The work comprises a limestone bust lodged under a classicized pediment surmounted by the poet's coat of arms and two putti.
The viewing platform resembles a raised circular sheepfold and is surmounted by a weathervane depicting a front-load tractor.
For years she surmounted her weekly shortfall by pooling her income and expenses with Elsa.
In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
Grey bricks, some with dragon motifs, were surmounted by wooden screens, vivid lattice and slender doors.
I forgo interaction with eight biscuit tins surmounted by illuminated photographs.
Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
He was portrayed standing under a tabernacled canopy consisting of three arches slightly pointed, surmounted by crocketed pediments.
This tower was raised thirty-three feet by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, crowned with a machicolated battlement, and surmounted with a flag-tower.
Each corner of these square towers is again surmounted by a projecting octagon turret, machicolated.
Kali's attributes include a third eye and smiling face surmounted by a towering headdress bristling with horns, pink lotus blossoms at her ears.
It has Tuscan columns, a frieze with triglyphs, metopes, guttae and mutules, and is surmounted by a triangular pediment.
The facade faced toward the Forum piazza with 19 columns surmounted on a trabeation.
She surmounted the role's many difficulties with ease and grace and imbued the Czech language with particular bite.
Both wore outstanding 'molly dook' punchers who surmounted the difficulties wllh which such boxers roust contend.
The buttery blandness of the usually overrated filet mignon gets surmounted by a brash pepper-splattered crust.
The front door is surmounted by an elliptical recessed arch in which a glass with five vertical muntins has replaced the original wooden fan.
The first, made in 1976, is a vertical cardboard tube surmounted by another with a smaller bore.
After arriving, we encountered a few administrative snafus, but we quickly surmounted them, and we were set to start carrier ops the next day.
They include a white or orchre-painted cone surmounted by a tapering spire and standing on a square pedestal.
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Of that time, too, is the double bay, surmounted by a sexpartite vault which precedes the apse.
Philip remembered the garden-party, and saw that they could never be surmounted.
The relief is bounded by two pilasters surmounted by a pediment, with acroteria.
The acroterion, which originally surmounted the east pediment, was larger and more important than that of the west.
Fragment of a plain stel, surmounted by an acroterion, in the form of a palmette in low relief, springing from acanthus leaves.
A further development was to make the porch a kind of arcaded avant-porte surmounted by a gable with sculptured features.
When the window was new it must have been surmounted in the middle of the arch by an ornamental design.
The Loch Buy brooch, of more elaborate workmanship, is likewise surmounted by a cabochon crystal on a raised dais.
At night, our couch will be on a platform surmounted by a canopy like a throne.
Over his clustering hair he wore a carcanet of diamonds, surmounted by the precious plumage of the bird of Paradise.
The walls of the chapter house are embellished with an arcade of trefoiled arches, surmounted by a cornice.
Over each seat is an ogee canopy, cinquefoil, crocketed, and surmounted by a huge finial.
Between the circles the ducks are repeated, facing a shield enriched with rows of the crenelated pattern surmounted by a vine.
At either end of this crescent or demilune is a large orbweb, surmounted by a tower.
They were afterwards restored, and fifteen years ago, a handsome clock tower was erected, surmounted by the Russian double eagle.
It is a representation of the Roman fasces in ebony, and is surmounted by a globe and an eagle in silver.
The panels have richly crocketed canopies, the central one being surmounted by a floriated cross.
A couple of ornate pillars flanked the door, and a gable roof, topped by a gilt vane, surmounted it.
A child prodigy of gospel music, he has surmounted personal adversity to become an accomplished pianist and singer.
But in the hypogea the difficulties were frequently great, and yet they were always surmounted.
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