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In many offices, desks are separated by modular walls that can be moved around.
He made his old-fashioned apartment look more modern by changing the color of the walls and buying new furniture.
The walls of the living room had a delicate vine stencil drawn on them.
The kynge of Scottes planted his siege before the castell of Norham, and sore abated the walls.
Albescent shapes played over the walls, teasing hundreds of drifty pleasures from his brain.
The place was really no more than a cottage, wattle-daubed walls and a thatched roof with an ale bush pushed under the eaves.
The immense room was carpeted, the walls were covered with eighteenth-century panelling, and three electric lustres hung from the ceiling.
We will need to trace the electrical wires through the walls.
Hearing of this, Sharon sent in another task force while Gur's men used the cover of night to scale the walls of the Heitan Defile.
The daily flights of the helicopters rattle the ancient walls and the winds created by their rotors blast sand against the fragile bricks.
The remains of the Roman baths, barracks and fortress walls of Isca Augusta can be seen at Caerleon.
Sparks of creative energy flicker in her eyes, but between the walls of her mom cave is where Colleen Zalewski really lets 'em fly.
Icons can be found adorning the walls of churches and often cover the inside structure completely.
Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.
I remember not being able to answer the phone, and I remember people climbing over my walls.
Hodgkine's mural is of a banyan tree spreading its branches across the walls.
She used plaster to cast the parlor walls and ceiling in sections and assembled them on a metal frame.
Propped against or affixed to walls, the sculptures glow with absorbed and reflected light.
The temples used pylons and trapezoid walls using hypaethros and hypostyle halls and shrines.
He had them build huge walls around the city and promised to reward them well, a promise he then refused to fulfill.
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On 1 September 2011, Belfast City Council agreed to develop a strategy regarding the removal of peace walls.
There are also examples of courtyards and large stone walls enclosing settlements, such as the Wargaade Wall.
There are no surviving historical records indicating the exact length and course of the Qin walls.
Most of the ancient walls have eroded away over the centuries, and very few sections remain today.
The Ming adopted a new strategy to keep the nomadic tribes out by constructing walls along the northern border of China.
As Mongol raids continued periodically over the years, the Ming devoted considerable resources to repair and reinforce the walls.
Here the first major walls erected during the Ming dynasty cuts through the Ordos Desert to the eastern edge of the Yellow River loop.
Stone walls are a kind of masonry construction that has been used for thousands of years.
The first stone walls were constructed by farmers and primitive people by piling loose field stones into a dry stone wall.
Stone walls are usually made of local materials varying from limestone and flint to granite and sandstone.
Large structures are usually made of very thick walls, so that castles and cathedrals possess walls which may be up to 12 feet thick.
It was originally built in the Carolingian style, including marble covered walls, and mosaic inlay on the dome.
There are also a few parts of both medieval city walls left, most of them integrated into more recent buildings, but some others still visible.
Although Andrew Moray was thwarted by the walls of Urquhart Castle, he continued to prosecute a vigorous campaign against his enemies in Moray.
The monument consists of two hemicircular walls depicting the opposing parties.
Native craftsmen and artists turned to secular patrons, resulting in the flourishing of Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings and walls.
The drop of the center creates the nearly parallel steeply dipping walls of a rift valley when it is new.
The nest chamber is sometimes located in seemingly unsuitable places, such as among logs piled against the walls of houses.
The tracheids of earlywood formed at the beginning of a growing season have large radial sizes and smaller, thinner cell walls.
Like algae and land plants, bryophytes also produce starch and contain cellulose in their walls.
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The advanced architecture of the Harappans is shown by their dockyards, granaries, warehouses, brick platforms, and protective walls.
He said that the walls and the roof of a house are barren, too, but it is permissible to charge someone for allowing him to use them.
The temple walls are decorated with many examples of the work of both Sherab Palden Beru and his western pupils.
It was formalised in 1816 when it was widened and provided with decorative railings and walls.
Monuments from the Roman period are rare, but include a large temple in Corseul and scarce ruins of villas and city walls in Rennes and Nantes.
Parkside Farmhouse at Castle Farm is a listed building, built in the early 19th century with squared limestone walls and purple slate roof.
Marginal crevasses form from the edge of the glacier, due to the reduction in speed caused by friction of the valley walls.
In alpine glaciers, friction is also generated at the valley's side walls, which slows the edges relative to the center.
The main passage runs between vertical slab rocked walls roofed by a series of stone lintels.
Large sections of the Roman town walls are still in place, rising up to 5 metres high in places.
Castle House, within the old walls, is a museum and Tourist Information Centre.
Curved bricks were used to build columns, and triangular bricks were used to build walls.
Outside and to the south of the city walls, the suburb along the Divette was frequented by sailors.
Ancient Romans and Greeks recorded the Celts' habits of nailing heads of personal enemies to walls or dangling them from the necks of horses.
Unlike in other Welsh territories, inhabitants of Caerwent and Caerleon retained the use of defensible Roman town walls throughout the period.
Gwenllian was placed in the Gilbertine Priory at Sempringham, where she was held behind high walls until her death 54 years later.
Both castles are concentric in plan, with walls within walls, although Beaumaris is the more regular in design.
The walls of the inner ward contain extensive first floor passageways, similar to those at Caernarfon Castle.
While the castle was under construction, town walls were built around Caernarfon.
As the southern wall and town walls completed a defensive circuit around Caernarfon, the plan was to build the castle's northern facade last.
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Madog's forces captured the town in September, and in the process heavily damaged the town walls.
Although it was ordered in 1660 that the castle and town walls should be dismantled, the work was aborted early on and may never have started.
George, and the first phase of work between 1283 and 1284 focused on creating the exterior curtain walls and towers.
In the second phase, from 1284 and 1286, the interior buildings were erected, while work began on the walls for the neighbouring town.
The castle and town walls are part of a World Heritage Site described as the Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd.
George, may well have modelled the castle on the walls of Constantinople, possibly being aware of the town's legendary associations.
The walls are in the care of Cadw but only a small section is accessible to the public.
A Roman altar was found in one of the walls during 19th century restoration work.
His image is featured in one of nine mosaics created to adorn the castle's walls.
With the construction of the town walls, Tenby Castle was made obsolete and had been abandoned by the end of the 14th century.
The old town castle walls still survive, as does the Victorian revival architecture in a pastel colour scheme.
The church standing in Conwy has been marked as the oldest building in Conwy and has stood in the walls of Conwy since the 14th century.
However, the oldest structure is part of the town walls, at the southern end of the east side.
The parish church still retains some parts of the original abbey church in the east and west walls.
The bridge is still in use on the North Wales Coast Line, along with the station, which is located within the town walls.
Freshwater elvers travel upstream and are forced to climb up obstructions, such as weirs, dam walls, and natural waterfalls.
Her name is still remembered in St Werburgh's Street which passes alongside the cathedral, and near the city walls.
The oldest church in the city is St John's, which is outside the city walls and was at one time the cathedral church.
The most important Roman feature is the amphitheatre just outside the walls which is undergoing archaeological investigation.
This canal, which runs beneath the northern section of the city walls of Chester, is navigable and remains in use today.
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The races take place within view of the City walls and attract tens of thousands of visitors.
Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.
It includes the castles of Beaumaris and Harlech and the castles and town walls of Caernarfon and Conwy.
The British state invested heavily in the castles and town walls during the 20th century, restoring many of their medieval features.
For much of the 20th century, the castles and walls were considered primarily from a military perspective.
The Edwardian castles and town walls in Gwynedd were built as a consequence of the wars fought for the control of Wales in the late 13th century.
The castles were entrusted by Edward to constables, charged to defend them and, in some cases, also empowered to defend the town walls as well.
Caernarfon Castle's walls were intact, but buildings inside were rotten and falling down.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the castles and town walls played a more prominent part in debates surrounding Welsh identity.
Despite these strengths, the castles and town walls are now recognised to have also had military flaws.
The walls of the inner ward were more substantial than those of the outer ward, with huge towers and two large gatehouses.
Every night the castle walls and foundations are demolished by unseen forces.
Instead he made the walls of the cathedral particularly thick to avoid the need for external buttresses altogether.
The town is centred on Main Street, which is the only street that is inside the original Pembroke town walls.
Outside the walls, residential estates have been built to the north towards Pembroke Dock, to the east towards Lamphey, and to the south.
Most diatoms are nonmotile, as their relatively dense cell walls cause them to readily sink.
Along with your 'brethren, Get ready your scaling ladders, And your engines of onfall and assault, To attack the walls of Khung.
Many villages of the Wirral such as Burton also well preserved with their characteristic red sandstone buildings and walls.
The onus is on the landlord to make sure the walls are protected from mildew.
In keeping with the orchidaceous theme of the wedding, the decorator draped the walls with lavenders and pinks.
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Heraklion was surrounded by high walls and bastions and extended westward and southward by the 17th century.
Dublin became so crowded by the 11th century that houses were constructed outside the town walls.
Fish can be negatively affected by docks and retaining walls which remove breeding habitat in shallow water.
Groynes are barriers or walls perpendicular to the coastline, often made of greenharts, concrete, rock or wood.
Training walls are built to constrain a river or creek as it discharges across a sandy coastline.
In Flanders, chimneys fell and cracks opened in the walls of Ghent and Oudenarde.
It was depicted in art on the walls of tombs, and figured in funerary texts, as a protective symbol against snakes.
A later bishop, Eadbert removed the thatch and covered both walls and roof in lead.
The presence of faults and joint structures in stope walls within the ore body has resulted in overbreak of ore into adjacent stopes.
This was a consequence of the platform design, which did not include blast walls.
A new tidal energy design option is to construct circular retaining walls embedded with turbines that can capture the potential energy of tides.
After having set fire to the village and having massacred the population, he was obliged to beat a retreat under the powerful walls of the abbey.
Sometimes the sound was close, as the owner of the voice was wandering just on the outside walls of his living quarters.
Bullet holes are visible on the walls of the castle where members of the French Resistance were shot during the Second World War.
From very early history to modern times, walls have been a necessity for many cities.
The Assyrians deployed large labour forces to build new palaces, temples and defensive walls.
The walls enclosed all the seven hills of Rome plus the Campus Martius and, on the right bank of the Tiber, the Trastevere district.
Likewise, the famous walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing were established in the early 15th century by the Yongle Emperor.
These cities were only rarely protected by simple stone walls and more usually by a combination of both walls and ditches.
During the Renaissance era, the Venetians raised great walls around cities threatened by the Ottoman Empire.
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Military forts in the American Old West during the Indian Wars were often lightly fortified enclosures, with log or adobe walls.
Isolated portions of the first city walls were saved from destruction and can be seen to this day.
These were built upon the site of the second set of city walls following their demolition.
The Touques was still unchannelled but during the Second Empire the low tides permitted the construction of walls.
And the house wherein his Pagode or idol standeth, is covered with tiles of silver, and all the walls are gilded with gold.
Within its walls there is a Greek hospital, a school and housing for the elderly and poor.
These fossorial rodents bang their head against the walls of their tunnels.
The hemipenes are often grooved, hooked, or spined in order to grip the walls of the female's cloaca.
The thin walls cause the fibre to collapse upon drying, giving a paper with low bulk and low opacity.
A characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants, bacteria, and some protists is chitin in their cell walls.
Unlike true fungi, the cell walls of oomycetes contain cellulose and lack chitin.
They grow on rock, walls, gravestones, roofs, exposed soil surfaces, and in the soil as part of a biological soil crust.
The appressoria or haustoria may produce a substance that increases permeability of the algal cell walls, and may penetrate the walls.
A few lichen species can tolerate quite high levels of pollution and are commonly found on pavements, walls and tree bark in urban areas.
At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee.
They set up dwellings with walls of turf and rock and temporary roofing and stayed in them for the two weeks of the assembly.
The walls are built with basalt blocks that have been weathered and broken up and stacked without mortar.
Typical protective walls and winery's house from basalt stones in the west of the island of Pico.
A storm broke out in the middle of the night and the waves could be heard smashing against the gate and the bronze walls.
Although most of the visible structure is older, the course of the Roman wall was used for Exeter's subsequent city walls.
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Over the next few years, he elevated Exeter to one of the four burhs in Devon, rebuilding its walls on the Roman lines.
King Athelstan again strengthened the walls around 928, and at the same time drove out the remaining Britons from the city.
The men resolve to attack the chieftain's castle by starting huge fires on the walls to weaken the mortar and break down the walls.
They are important for plant life now and Bayonne's botanic gardens adjoin the walls on both sides of the Nive.
Roughly half of the walls, 13 of the original towers, and six gates survive.
On the other hand, many of the medieval buildings once situated within the town walls are now in ruins or have disappeared altogether.
Examining the pit walls revealed that the pit had probably been filled with hot stones on several occasions.
Within the walls is a well 200 feet deep and another in the centre of the keep is reputed to have been still deeper.
The British commander Albermale ordered a tunnel to be dug by his sappers so a mine could be planted under the walls of the city's fortress.
Clay was used as a mortar in brick chimneys and stone walls where protected from water.
It is also used as a type of rock for stone walls in areas where greensand is common.
The town walls at Wareham were built in 876AD, possibly by Alfred the Great, to defend the town against this threat.
The walls of the braincase are bony but lack supratemporal and postfrontal bones.
This was a double wall vessel with evaporator coils and water located between the walls at the bottom and sides of the tank.
As a true fruit, it develops from the ovary of the plant after fertilization, its flesh comprising the pericarp walls.
Most of the paintings are located on the shelter's ceiling, but many are found on the walls and pillars of the site.
This definition rests on the physical assumption that there are readily available walls permeable only to heat.
Depending on the surroundings and the walls separating them from the body, various changes are possible in the body.
In the end, the inhabited parts of the cities were separated from one another by stretches of pasture even within the city walls.
The soldiers now lived in good stone barracks within walls decorated by frescoes.
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Caesar's men stood in battle formation outside the walls of his camp each day, but only skirmishes were offered.
His successor Dagobert I reinforced the walls of Mainz and made it one of his seats.
Ammianus refers to a great number of Roman soldiers who had not been let into the city and who fought the besieging Goths below the walls.
The remains of the limites today consist of vestiges of walls, ditches, forts, fortresses and civilian settlements.
The needs of the new capital led to an explosion both in the urbanisation and in the population within and outside the Aurelian walls.
The walls were lined with paper-bark, pipe-clayed and panelled with polished bloodwood.
Odo's forces launched a surprise assault on the Umayyad forces, simultaneously from behind and from within the walls.
Dublin became so crowded by the 11th century that houses were built outside the town walls.
These main intersecting roads formed 108 rectangular wards with walls and four gates each, and each ward filled with multiple city blocks.
As a result, the capillaries in the parabronchi have thinner walls, permitting more efficient gaseous exchange.
But I must not conclude my work by omitting what he did for the poor outside the walls of the city Canterbury.
The Ottomans rebuilt the weak walls of Jeddah in 1525 following their victory over the Lopo Soares de Albergaria's Armada in the Red Sea.
King Road Tower is a commercial and office building, the external walls of which are used to show commercials.
At the onset of the siege, probably fewer than 50,000 people were living within the walls, including the refugees from the surrounding area.
The regular European troops, stretched out along the entire length of the walls, were commanded by Karadja Pasha.
As their numbers were insufficient to occupy the walls in their entirety, it had been decided that only the outer walls would be manned.
Constantine and his Greek troops guarded the Mesoteichion, the middle section of the land walls, where they were crossed by the river Lycus.
This section was considered the weakest spot in the walls and an attack was feared here most.
The sea walls at the southern shore of the Golden Horn were defended by Venetian and Genoese sailors under Gabriele Trevisano.
Although the Byzantines also had cannons, they were much smaller than those of the Ottomans and the recoil tended to damage their own walls.
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This section of the walls had been built earlier, in the eleventh century, and was much weaker.
The Anatolians managed to breach this section of walls and entered the city but were just as quickly pushed back by the defenders.
Finally, as the battle was continuing, the last wave, consisting of elite Janissaries, attacked the city walls.
When the Venetians retreated over to their ships, the Ottomans had already taken the walls of the Golden Horn.
The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire.
Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.
My cell had blackwashed walls, and I spent the next year in almost total darkness.
Along the riverbanks lie enchanted old gardens, with blueberried ivy spilling over their gray stone walls.
The Grey Bower has woodwork of white, with grey walls decorated with a bowerland of rose and fuchsia, and having an undergrowth of blue-bells.
On either side the cliffs rose higher, and the walls of Jurassic rock, above the brashy steeps, more towering, precipitous, and fantastic.
With the dim lights and the basement walls, it had a faintly bunkerish feel.
The shack was a one-room bushpole construction with a corrugated iron roof and walls.
He was as gutted and empty as the ruined walls whose shadows loomed over him in the fleeting light of day.
As they approached the clifflike walls of Black Harren's monstrous castle, Brienne squeezed his arm.
The walls are of cob, the external ones being about 2 feet 8 inches thick, and rest on a stone foundation.
All the heat of a decade of fierce Indian summers is stored in the pitch-black, polished walls of the corkscrew staircase.
The Italian enthusiasm for racing leads enthusiasts to daub the names of their favorite competitors on walls, on houses, on anything daubable.
He had painted the ceiling and window and doorframes an aqua green, the walls eau-de-nil.
Ask most people what soundproofing is and they'll describe foam tiles, egg crates, or other treatments on the walls.
And so across the bridge and into the enceinte of the massive walls, threading their way towards the quarter where the morgue lay.
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And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity.
In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.
There were a few flakes of paint on the floor from when we were painting the walls.
The apartment felt damp, and the paint on the walls was beginning to flake off.
To improve the sound the acousticians, JaffeHolden, lined up flangelike panels along the front of the side walls to bounce sound inward.
Provide them with a mansion, and they will rip out the plumbing, write obscenities on the walls, and generally foul up their own nest.
And as Dave geckoed his way along the walls, he began seeing more and more skid marks left behind by Damien's Sewer Cruiser.
Anyway, I used to get a charge out of the writing on the walls in the John.
They had also seen a Lockwood show home utilizing a mix of timber and gibbed walls.
Features such as dry stone walls, for example, are there as a result of sheep farming.
Archaeological research shows that this involved abandonment of Lundenwic and a revival of life and trade within the old Roman walls.
There, a few yards before them, was the high road from Risingham to Shoreby, lying, at this point, between two even walls of forest.
By 1000, Bruges and Ghent held regular trade fairs behind castle walls, a tentative return of economic life to western Europe.
Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy.
Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.
On imaging studies, the liver metastases of GCTs are characterized by thickened walls with hypervascularity and nodular excrescences.
Some surviving structures are almost complete, such as the town walls of Lugo in Hispania Tarraconensis, now northern Spain.
A portcullis covered the opening when the city was under siege, and additional watchtowers were constructed along the city walls.
To lighten up the small dark rooms, tenants able to afford a degree of painted colourful murals on the walls.
In 1644, during the Civil War, the Parliamentarians besieged York, and many medieval houses outside the city walls were lost.
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York's centre is enclosed by the city's medieval walls, which are a popular walk.
They have the only walls set on high ramparts and they retain all their principal gateways.
As a consequence many of the routes inside the city walls are designated as car free during business hours or restrict traffic entirely.
Alaric's first siege of Rome in 408 caused dreadful famine within the walls.
Orestes was soon forced to flee Pavia when Odoacer's army broke through the city walls, and his army ravaged the city.
For that purpose they constructed extensive walls and created permanent stations that became cities.
After collecting reinforcements, they made a sudden dash across England and occupied the ruined Roman walls of Chester.
At one point, while sick from scurvy, Richard is said to have picked off guards on the walls with a crossbow, while being carried on a stretcher.
Moreover, Richard had personally offended Leopold by casting down his standard from the walls of Acre.
Missiles were occasionally shot from the castle walls, but these were given little attention.
Their new residents were English migrants, with the local Welsh banned from living inside them, and many were protected by extensive walls.
City walls were either left in their ruinous state or only partially rebuilt.
He and other Italian architects also contributed to the construction of the Kremlin walls and towers.
In 1589, Henry III, the last of the Valois lineage, died at the walls of Paris.
Asymmetry can also occur if adjacent channel walls are isothermal but at different temperatures or isoflux but dissipating different heat fluxes.
The walls and ceiling of this drawing-room in Montague Square are painted ivory.
The refusal of the garrison at Drogheda to do this, even after the walls had been breached, was to Cromwell justification for the massacre.
Some well-mounted heads of deer and one of an enormous black javeli projected from the walls.
Paul's Cathedral a safe refuge, with its thick stone walls and natural firebreak in the form of a wide, empty surrounding plaza.
Four times he jumped the rattler, his knuckles bleeding from punching walls.
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A few weeks later, after extensive artillery bombardment, a breach was opened in the main walls of the fortress of Seringapatam.
The walls and ceiling of the little hall were lined with tongue-and-groove boards that had been, mistakenly, coated with kalsomine.
Take time to look around at the dawning light that casts lovely shadows on the rock and the gnarly kiawe trees that line the dry canyon walls.
In keeping with the station's policy of freshness and kidulthood, the boardroom's walls were giant photomurals of Star Wars collectibles.
Five frescos painted by William Dyce between 1848 and 1864 cover the walls, depicting allegorical scenes from the legend.
Their names are inscribed in gold leaf around the upper walls of Room C of the House of Commons Library.
And he strengthened the walls of Llvndain, surrounded the city with many farmsteads, and lived in it the greater part of the year.
And he had built within the city walls splendid buildings the like of which were not seen in all countries.
Nodules are to be seen everywhere in the older houses as a construction material for walls.
The oldest section lies within the Medieval walls of the city, which are built on Roman foundations.
Artist Jacqueline Crofton threw eggs at the walls of the room containing Creed's work as a protest.
The book is notable for its precise descriptions of the town before the defensive walls were removed.
This eliminated the cooling of the main cylinder walls and such, and dramatically reduced fuel use.
Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city.
Originally air turbulence was kept to a minimum by keeping all signage flat to the tunnel walls.
They are also one-hour fire rated on load bearing interior and exterior walls.
Since we do not need walls for load-bearing, the storage walls do not have to have any special thickness.
Italy made no attempt to interfere with the Holy See within the Vatican walls.
The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse.
The wooden roof, which was of an innovative design, is light enough to be able to be supported by the buttressed walls.
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These churches had such defensive features as thick walls, loopholes, machiolate parapets and towers.
At that time, a pagan army attacked Bamburgh and attempted to set its walls ablaze.
Between 1503 and 1504 More lived near the Carthusian monastery outside the walls of London and joined in the monks' spiritual exercises.
Peter Ad Vincula, within the walls of the Tower of London, as was the custom for traitors executed at Tower Hill.
Holes are still visible on the walls, and probably mark the places where the pegs for the bathers' clothes were set.
The walls feature a number of separate compartments or recesses for receiving the garments when taken off.
In the Forum Baths at Pompeii the floor is mosaic, the arched ceiling adorned with stucco and painting on a coloured ground, the walls red.
The floor of this chamber is suspended, and its walls perforated for flues, like the corresponding one in the men's baths.
It was printed in an edition of 700 copies and distributed to be coloured and pasted on the walls of city halls or the palaces of princes.
In Rome, Pula, and elsewhere some walls incorporated in later buildings have always been evident.
Since the camp was placed to best advantage on a hill or slope near the river, the naval base was usually outside its walls.
A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls made of logs placed side by side vertically with the tops sharpened to provide security.
In some equatorial countries, thatch is the prevalent local material for roofs, and often walls.
For example, in Na Bure, Fiji, thatchers combine fan palm leave roofs with layered reed walls.
In areas where palms are abundant, palm leaves are used to thatch walls and roofs.
The Romans also built town or city walls in England, which can still be seen, for instance at Silchester.
As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat.
The bailey was incorporated into the new castle and is surrounded by stone curtain walls.
When Warwick Castle was rebuilt in the reign of King Henry II it had a new layout with the buildings against the curtain walls.
By 1398 the mill had been relocated to just outside the eastern castle walls, on the west bank of the River Avon.
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The walls of the Upper Ward are built of Bagshot Heath stone faced on the inside with regular bricks, the gothic details in yellow Bath stone.
The foliage in the capitals is less conventional than in Early English and more flowing, and the diaper patterns in walls are more varied.
At about the same time that the westwork was built, the arcade walls were strengthened and towers added to the eastern corners of the church.
Curtain walls were studded with towers to allow enfilading fire along the wall.
To protect them from undermining, curtain walls were sometimes given a stone skirt around their bases.
Walkways along the tops of the curtain walls allowed defenders to rain missiles on enemies below, and battlements gave them further protection.
It was usual for the latrines to empty down the external walls of a castle and into the surrounding ditch.
While the concept of ditches, ramparts, and stone walls as defensive measures is ancient, raising a motte is a medieval innovation.
Below them were archers and bowmen, whose role was to prevent the enemy reaching the walls as can be seen by the positioning of arrowslits.
They were used to force open the castle gates, although they were sometimes used against walls with less effect.
It was a work of pure modernism, with glass and concrete walls and clean, horizontal lines.
Many of these houses erased the line distinction between indoor and outdoor spaces with walls of plate glass.
It features a reflecting pool which meanders under of the glass walls of the house.
Similarly, the Old English poem Seafarer speaks of the high stone walls that were the work of giants.
But subsequent technology has made it possible to date the paintings by sampling the pigment itself and the torch marks on the walls.
The earliest paintings on the cave walls are believed to be of the Mesolithic period, dating to 30,000 years ago.
The earliest Gothic art was monumental sculpture, on the walls of Cathedrals and abbeys.
Flat or matte paint allows a deep color expression on the walls while also hiding flaws that may be inherent on the painted surface.
Shelley's ashes were interred in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome, near an ancient pyramid in the city walls.
Ballet dancers begin their classes at the barre, a wooden beam that runs along the walls of the ballet studio.

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