| And the house wherein his Pagode or idol standeth, is covered with tiles of silver, and all the walls are gilded with gold. |
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| Office buildings and department stores featured high courtyards covered with stained glass cupolas and ceramic decoration. |
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| In addition officers were promoted in other troop arms such as artillery and armoured troops which are not covered in this article. |
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| At this time vast rainforests covered the equatorial region of Europe and America. |
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| There is uncertainty over how much of Greenland was covered by ice during the previous and earlier interglacials. |
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| This zone is permanently covered with seawater and is approximately equivalent to the neritic zone. |
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| Water levels rose, and the western Tethys shallowly covered significant portions of Europe, forming the first Tethys Sea. |
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| The Great Lakes formed and giant mammals thrived in parts of North America and Eurasia not covered in ice. |
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| In Australia, shifting sand dunes covered half the continent, whilst the Chaco and Pampas in South America became similarly dry. |
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| Northern Europe was largely covered by ice, the southern boundary of the ice sheets passing through Germany and Poland. |
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| Ice covered the whole of Iceland and almost all of the British Isles but southern England. |
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| In Southeast Asia, many smaller mountain glaciers formed, and permafrost covered Asia as far south as Beijing. |
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| In North America, the ice covered essentially all of Canada and extended roughly to the Missouri and Ohio Rivers, and eastward to Manhattan. |
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| In the Southern Hemisphere, the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered the whole southern third of Chile and adjacent areas of Argentina. |
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| Over the years, the irritating object is covered with enough layers of nacre to become a pearl. |
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| Aside from the vibrissae, the walrus is sparsely covered with fur and appears bald. |
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| The parenchymatous thalli are generally covered with a mucilage layer, rather than cuticle. |
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| They also lack vertebral centra, and are partially covered with 5 lateral rows of bony plates called scutes rather than scales. |
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| Boston outshot New York by 16-10, including by 8-3 in the first half, but Gao Hong, the Power's goaltender, covered her zone impressively. |
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| It is accessible, most times, at low tide by crossing sand and mudflats which are covered with water at high tides. |
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| A later bishop, Eadbert removed the thatch and covered both walls and roof in lead. |
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| Hexham covered County Durham and the southern part of Northumberland up to the River Coquet and eastwards into the Pennines. |
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| Whithorn covered most of Dumfries and Galloway region west of Dumfries itself. |
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| In Russia, the war was covered by anonymous satirical graphic luboks for sale in markets, recording the war for the domestic audience. |
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| The centre of the island is largely moorland covered with heather, and cultivation is confined to the coasts. |
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| The Museumplein is covered almost entirely with a lawn, except for the northeastern part of the square which is covered with gravel. |
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| These research trips covered the North Sea, the Bay of Biscay and in particular the English Channel. |
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| Most of the county is covered by local radio network KMFM, owned by the KM Group. |
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| Be careful not to oversteam as food will become soft and mushy, and remember to keep your pot covered throughout the process. |
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| The area immediately to the north was covered by the heavily wooded Ardennes region. |
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| Many dramatisations focus on the initial landings, and these are covered at Normandy Landings. |
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| The Fitch steamboat was not a commercial success, as this travel route was adequately covered by relatively good wagon roads. |
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| The distance of 82 miles from London to Folkestone was covered in 2 hours and 40 minutes. |
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| Following the beheading, it refused to be parted from its owner's body and was covered in her blood, until it was forcibly taken away and washed. |
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| The footprints were found in sediment, partially covered by beach sand, at low tide on the foreshore at Happisburgh. |
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| During the last glacial period, much of northern Europe, Asia, North America, Greenland and Antarctica was covered by ice sheets. |
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| Dressed in a simple grey cotton sari, her head covered with the pallu, she sat on a platform behind a table with a microphone. |
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| Antarctica is almost completely covered by ice, making it uninhabitable by rats. |
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| The animal appears brownish with most of its body covered by up to 6,000 brown and white spines. |
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| These bats possess long muzzles and long, extensible tongues covered in fine bristles that aid them in feeding on particular flowers and plants. |
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| Most fawns are born with their fur covered with white spots, though in many species they lose these spots by the end of their first winter. |
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| The surface of the flight feathers is covered with a velvety structure that absorbs the sound of the wing moving. |
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| Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. |
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| As in other reptiles, the skin of lizards is covered in overlapping scales made of keratin. |
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| Both sexes have orange bellies, although paler in females, which is covered in rounded black spots. |
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| Large areas of the Chilterns are covered with beech woods, which are habitat to the common bluebell and other flora. |
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| At the base of each petal is usually one nectary gland that is naked or may be covered by a scale. |
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| Margaret's Cave, now covered beneath a municipal car park, is open to the public. |
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| The majority of Earth's polar regions are covered in ice, including the Antarctic ice sheet and the sea ice of the Arctic ice pack. |
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| Evidence of the latter would since have been covered by a sea level rise of hundreds of meters following the last ice age. |
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| It is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year and almost completely in winter. |
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| Much of the Arctic Ocean is covered by sea ice that varies in extent and thickness seasonally. |
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| In the winter the relatively warm ocean water exerts a moderating influence, even when covered by ice. |
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| Much of the Arctic ice pack is also covered in snow for about 10 months of the year. |
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| The ice began to spread, replacing the forests that then covered the continent. |
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| After that, the Pleistocene ice age covered the whole continent and destroyed all major plant life on it. |
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| The geological study of Antarctica has been greatly hindered by nearly all of the continent being permanently covered with a thick layer of ice. |
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| The polar ice cap of the Carboniferous Period covered the southern end of Pangaea. |
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| Archeological evidence of the latter would have been covered by the sea level rise of more than 120 meters since the last ice age. |
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| In winter, a large area north of Iceland, between Greenland and Jan Mayen, which is called West Ice is covered by continuous ice. |
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| To the east, the stable Florida platform was not covered by the sea until the latest Jurassic or the beginning of Cretaceous time. |
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| The northern and western parts of the Labrador Sea are covered in ice between December and June. |
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| The eastern area is covered by fracture zones and may represent an abandoned spreading centre. |
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| The existence of such microcontinents is speculative, however, since their remains tend to be covered by younger layers of lava and sediments. |
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| The probability of cold winters with much snow in Central Europe rises when the Arctic is covered by less sea ice in summer. |
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| During the winter the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by sea ice increases, usually reaching a maximum extent during the month of March. |
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| The area covered in sea ice then decreases, reaching its minimum extent in September most years. |
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| Pannonia Inferior covered much of the western half of the basin, as far as the Danube. |
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| Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine. |
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| The resulting large igneous province is, in area covered, the most extensive on earth. |
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| During the Late Early to Middle Cretaceous, the basin subsided rapidly and was covered by the sea. |
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| Activity continued for several weeks or months, with pyroclastic currents which covered valleys up to ten kilometres away with sticky tephra. |
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| When the Laurentide ice sheet retreated, north central North America was totally covered by Lake Agassiz. |
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| If covered with sand, it will compost to form a fertile bed where annual coastal flowers and marram grass will thrive. |
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| From the fifth week they are covered in dark brown feathers flecked with white. |
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| The cliffs containing the colonies appear to be covered in snow when seen from a distance, due to the number of nests present on them. |
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| Males play no part in rearing the young, which are born blind, deaf, toothless and covered in fine white or pinkish down. |
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| The Scots pine formed much of the Caledonian Forest which once covered much of the Scottish Highland. |
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| In some specimens, the forehead is covered in dense clusters of brown spots. |
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| Their body is covered by hair at 21 days, their eyes and ears open after three to four weeks, and they develop all their teeth by 42 days. |
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| The tundra is covered in marshes, lakes, bogs and streams during the warm months. |
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| Most of Antarctica is too cold and dry to support vegetation, and most of the continent is covered by ice fields. |
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| From a room that appears to have been set aside for bathing, waste water was directed to covered drains, which lined the major streets. |
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| When Franz appeared on Radio 1's Live Lounge on 6 April 2009 to promote No You Girls, they covered Womanizer by Britney Spears. |
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| The smooth, cylindrical geotextile tubes could be difficult to climb over before they were covered by sand. |
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| The best soils were primitively covered by large forests which had been progressively replaced by bocage during the Middle Ages. |
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| During the Quaternary glaciations, Brittany was covered by loess and rivers started to fill the valleys with alluvial deposits. |
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| In the late 19th century, the lade was covered over and the area from Cockshaugh Park to Law Mill was landscaped and planted with trees. |
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| As on Earth, many glaciers are covered with a layer of rocks which insulates the ice. |
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| Dolmens were typically covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus. |
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| They consist of a kerb surrounding an oval mound, which covered a rectangular chamber of stones with the entrance on one of the long sides. |
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| The wall at the front, right section, is missing or has collapsed, and the rubble has tumbled out leaving a previously covered orthostat exposed. |
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| The Sikh Golden temple, the Harmandir Sahib, is a building covered with gold. |
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| Thus it covered the modern county of Ceredigion, part of Carmarthenshire, and the Gower Peninsula. |
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| Hwyel quickly merged Seisyllwg and Dyfed into the new kingdom of Deheubarth, which covered most of southwest Wales. |
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| In Flanders, sands, gravels and marls predominate, covered by silts in places. |
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| All headstones were supposed to be removed, and the cemetery was to be covered in a layer of gravel, then concrete, but this was not done. |
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| The whole of the walled cemetery next to where the chapel stood was completely covered in concrete. |
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| As with North America and Europe, Gondwana was largely covered with shallow seas during the Ordovician. |
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| Nestlings are covered in pale buff down feathers, shading to whitish on the belly. |
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| Ears are small and not very developed, while the tail is long and completely covered with hair. |
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| On the back and hindquarters, the underfur is almost completely covered by the dark guard hairs. |
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| Traditionally, the stylised dolphins in heraldry still may take after this notion, sometimes showing the dolphin skin covered with fish scales. |
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| The original distribution of the Genus Oncorhynchus covered the Pacific Rim coastline. |
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| By 1955 income no longer covered operating costs, and things got steadily worse. |
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| The line covered six and three quarter miles with stations at Rhewl and Llanrhaiadr. |
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| These mosques have square or rectangular plans with an enclosed courtyard and covered prayer hall. |
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| The mine is covered by HM Inspectorate of Mines regulations, because it is still classed as a working pit. |
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| Slag heaps are still visible on the skyline, now covered with flora and fauna. |
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| Above this attic rises the dome, covered with lead, and ribbed in accordance with the spacing of the pilasters. |
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| Initially, the Cardiff Blues' region covered only the City of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. |
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| All matches were covered live in the United States, a first for a Ryder Cup in Europe. |
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| As for the Offices, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self. |
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| Later the pods become covered completely with white powdery mass composed of mycelium, oidiophores and oidia of the fungus. |
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| In places covered by ice sheets during Ice Ages, such as Scandinavia, northern North America, and Siberia, glacial erratics are common. |
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| The plates are covered by the epidermis, which consists of a smooth syncytium. |
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| The plates are covered in rounded tubercles, to which the spines are attached. |
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| The tentacles and tentilla are densely covered with microscopic colloblasts that capture prey by sticking to it. |
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| The zygote sheds its silica theca and grows into a large sphere covered by an organic membrane, the auxospore. |
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| The head and thorax may be fused together to form a cephalothorax, which may be covered by a single large carapace. |
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| Each arm has a pad covered in suckers which grabs and pulls prey toward its beak, paralyzing it with venom before eating it. |
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| The head and lower jaw are covered with knobs called tubercles, which are hair follicles and are characteristic of the species. |
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| They have a layer of fat, or blubber, under the skin to keep warm in the cold water, and, other than the walrus, all species are covered in fur. |
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| Almost all pinnipeds have fur coats, the exception being the walrus, which is only sparsely covered. |
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| I know from personal experience that it's not fun to be covered with oobleck. |
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| These had long bodies, a head covered with bony plates and generally weak or undeveloped limbs. |
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| It is covered with volcanoes that erupt sulfur, sulfur dioxide and silicate rock, and as a result, Io is constantly being resurfaced. |
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| The size of the oolite reflects the time they have had exposed to the water before they were covered with later sediment. |
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| She sat there for more than three hours, as sheet after sheet became covered with her open-handed writing. |
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| This has become an opposition tactic during important votes which are widely covered in the media. |
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| These normally try to embarrass the government and are widely covered in the media. |
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| Intertidal zones, the areas that are close to the shore, are constantly being exposed and covered by the ocean's tides. |
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| This is a squat, windowless World War II fortress north west of Horse Guards Parade, now covered in ivy. |
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| The actual roof was probably made of animal skins that were covered with soil and moss. |
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| However some areas of continental crust are regions covered with water not usually included in the list of continents. |
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| Some areas of continental crust are largely covered by the sea and may be considered submerged continents. |
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| In the south, there is very little left of the indigenous subtropical rainforest which once covered the whole island. |
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| The Carolingian Empire during the reign of Charlemagne covered most of Western Europe, as the Roman Empire once had. |
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| However, the respective national definitions and the type of roads covered may present slight differences in different EU countries. |
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| Denmark has a well covered motorway system today, which has been difficult to build due to the county's geography with many islands. |
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| Indeed, Elio would take prototypes out on the autostrada covered in wool tufts in order to test air flow over the body. |
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| The emergence of the classic Porsche 356 is covered in the accompanying sports car article. |
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| Ocean planets are a hypothetical type of planet with a surface completely covered with liquid. |
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| They are covered with a mixture of gravel, sand, and mud, and the trenches are used by fish as spawning grounds. |
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| Over time, shoals arose, which ultimately were only covered by infrequent storm floods. |
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| The drainage basin acts as a funnel by collecting all the water within the area covered by the basin and channelling it to a single point. |
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| Oslo is also covered by a bus network consisting of 32 city lines, as well as regional buses to the neighboring county of Akershus. |
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| It forms from the irregular melting of ice covered with a thick layer of debris. |
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| In common with the rest of Scotland, Yell was covered in thick ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages. |
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| The Andes were covered in the south by the Patagonian ice cap. |
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| The plateau is covered with a layer of flinty clay and a fertile silt. |
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| The Driftless Area, a portion of western and southwestern Wisconsin along with parts of adjacent Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois, was not covered by glaciers. |
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| Shetland is covered by the separate Shetland Partnership for Transport. |
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| Before the Cambrian, the sea floor was covered by microbial mats. |
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| While land seems to have been devoid of plants and animals, cyanobacteria and other microbes formed prokaryotic mats that covered terrestrial areas. |
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| Over the last century, extensive field observations have provided evidence that continental glaciers covered large parts of Europe, North America, and Siberia. |
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| The vast ocean of Panthalassa covered most of the northern hemisphere. |
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| Eyes never beheld the sea so angry, so high, so covered with foam. |
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| The association of Saint James with the scallop can most likely be traced to the legend that the apostle once rescued a knight covered in scallops. |
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| The ears are covered in short hairs, which strongly project from the fur. |
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| During the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, this part of Eurasia was covered by shallow seas that formed the northern margins of the Tethys Ocean. |
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| It covered many small plates, Cretaceous island arcs and microcontinents. |
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| Kittens are born blind and helpless, and are covered in a fuzzy coat. |
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| Frankish paganism has been observed in the burial site of Childeric I, where the king's body was found covered in a cloth decorated with numerous bees. |
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| After the nest is completely covered, she returns to the sea. |
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| When building dens, females make use of natural shelters such as fissures in rocks, cliffs overhanging riverbanks and holes thickly covered by vegetation. |
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| Vast ice sheets covered much of North America, northern Europe, and Asia. |
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| Livingston is covered by the BBC Scotland and STV Central regions. |
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| Unsurprisingly excise men were installed in a covered booth in the centre of the bridge to collect tax from any entering the royal burgh with goods. |
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| A second trench was to be dug behind the front line, to shelter the trench garrison and to have easy access to the front line, through covered communication trenches. |
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| At this time, Portugal covered about half of its present area. |
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| In hydrology, an oceanic basin may be anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater, but geologically ocean basins are large geologic basins that are below sea level. |
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| Vast swaths of forest covered the land, which would eventually be laid down and become the coal beds characteristic of the Carboniferous stratigraphy evident today. |
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| Nantes and St Nazaire, the most important ports, were covered by 1 Squadron, 73 Squadron and 242 Squadron, with a small detachment covering Brest. |
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| Vesuvius was described by Roman writers as having been covered with gardens and vineyards before its eruption of 79 CE, which destroyed the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii. |
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| In 2011, the bridge was covered in a new coating designed to last for 25 years, bringing an end to having painters as a regular part of the maintenance crew. |
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| The front face of each box was lightly held by battle outposts and the rest of the box was unoccupied but sowed with mines and explosive traps and covered by enfilading fire. |
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| Worse, the large open ditches surrounding forts of this type were an integral part of the defensive scheme, as was the covered way at the edge of the counter scarp. |
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| The high sea level and warm climate of the Cretaceous meant large areas of the continents were covered by warm, shallow seas, providing habitat for many marine organisms. |
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| Antarctica was not always cold, dry, and covered in ice sheets. |
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| The Halberstadt quarry today is covered by a housing development. |
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| Lobster anatomy includes the cephalothorax which fuses the head and the thorax, both of which are covered by a chitinous carapace, and the abdomen. |
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| Except where secondarily lost, shrimp have one pair of stalked eyes, although they are sometimes covered by the carapace, which protects the cephalothorax. |
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| The volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit is located at the border of the Ordovician to the Llandovery epoch the ore is covered by an overlying layer of volcanic rhyolites. |
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| Built in 1857 at the height of the Gothic Revival, the cathedral was home to the Bishop of Menevia from 1898 until 1987, whose diocese covered all of Wales. |
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| During the laying down of the Peninsula Formation sediments, the western portion of the region was covered for a brief period of time by glaciers. |
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| In 2006, the 23 Pacific oyster farms throughout New Zealand covered a total of 750 hectares of marine space and produced 2,800 tonnes of product per year. |
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| The head of a gull may be covered by a dark hood or be entirely white. |
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| One of the farmsteads covered was Hafod Fadog, a Quaker meeting place. |
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| The dry prominence of a summit is equal to its wet prominence unless the summit is the highest point of a landmass or island, or its key col is covered by snow or ice. |
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| Lava flows will also typically show evidence of weathering on their upper surface, whereas sills, if still covered by country rock, typically do not. |
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| During the late Paleogene, when the family presumably originated, much of Eurasia was covered by shallow seas, as the Indian Plate finally attached to the mainland. |
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| The exterior was covered with a matting made from reeds and twigs and then covered with hay and earth, which protected the interior from rain, heat and cold. |
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| Each volume covered two years, spread over three calendar years. |
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| Much of the Canadian Arctic is covered by ice and permafrost. |
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| The skin is covered in a protective layer of epicuticular wax. |
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| Over the years, the sand covered them up, creating a huge sand dune. |
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| The 1979 Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats covered the natural heritage of Europe, as well as in some African countries. |
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| Also inside was an embossed silver covered travelling altar. |
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| The population figures below are for the borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham, which existed only between 1974 and 2009, and covered a much wider area than the town. |
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| This civic code covered the Jutland Peninsula from the area north of the River Eider to Funen as well as the North Jutlandic Island and other smaller islands. |
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| The Diocese of Llandaff covered almost the entirety of Glamorgan and continued throughout the history of the county of Glamorgan, and through to modern times. |
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| In the Paleogene period southern Sweden was at a lower position relative to sea level but was likely still above it as it was covered by sediments. |
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| East Antarctica is largely covered by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. |
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| This lake was covered during the early 18th century as the city grew. |
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| The American eel has a slender snakelike body that is covered with a mucous layer, which makes the eel appear to be naked and slimy despite the presence of minute scales. |
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| Scent can be unreliable when the ground is too dry or covered in snow. |
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| This covered the Autumn Rugby Union Internationals and Remembrance Day. |
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| If the slopes are covered with ice and snow, the katabatic wind will blow during the day, carrying the cold dense air into the warmer, barren valleys. |
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| The fight was a sporting disaster for Welsh, losing seven of the ten rounds, and by the tenth he was being chased around the ring as he covered himself up. |
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| The matches were covered live domestically by BBC and Sky Sports. |
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| The slopes of hills not covered by snow will be warmed during the day. |
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| Since about 15 Ma, the continent has been mostly covered with ice. |
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| However other methods are favored for stopping a reaction and it is preferred to keep the nuclear core covered with water so as to ensure adequate cooling. |
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| The Hunt for Gollum, a fan film based on elements of the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, was released on the internet in May 2009 and has been covered in major media. |
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| The main towns in the county are covered by regular bus and train services, and many villages by local bus services, or community or education transport. |
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| The Ribble Estuary has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1966 and is now covered by Natural England's Ribble Estuary National Nature Reserve. |
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| O is for Olm. The Olm has teeny-weeny legs. Its eyes are covered with skin and it can barely see. Olms live in caves where there is hardly any light. |
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