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To our right were the crags of the Breithorn, to our left the buttresses of the Jungfrau, while between both was an indentation in the mountain-wall, on which all eyes were fixed.
We had scanned the buttresses of the Jungfrau with a view to forcing a passage between the Jungfrau and the Monk from the Wengern Alp to the Aletsch glacier.
On this day it was my desire[183] to get near the buttresses of the Jungfrau, and to see what prospect of success a lonely climber would have in an attempt upon the mountain.
The most pleasant of these was to the Hinterburger See, a small and lonely lake high up among the hills, fringed on one side by pines, and overshadowed on the other by the massive limestone buttresses of the Hinterburg.
Before us were the buttresses of Snowdon, crowned by his conical peak; while below us were three llyns, black as ink, and contracting additional gloom from the shadow of[426] the mountain.
At times a bow would appear in fragments, showing the keystone of the arch midway in air, and its two buttresses on the horizon.
Our line has been called a race of visionaries; and in many striking particulars-in the character of the family mansion-in the frescos of the chief saloon-in the tapestries of the dormitories-in the chiselling of some buttresses in the armory-but more especially in the gallery of antique paintings-in the fashion of the library chamber-and, lastly, in the very peculiar nature of the library's contents-there is more than sufficient evidence to warrant the belief.
(The entertainment culture also buttresses this view.
Martin buttresses his case with one of the poorest spokesmen imaginable: Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's foreign minister.
1 Yet the rocket-shaped tower, with its cast aluminum buttresses and gleaming conical top, is the perfect fanciful crown for this rather solemn skyscraper.
Those buildings are not any more “modern” than the Chicago Tribune tower, which had gargoyles and flying buttresses but was an advanced building in terms of planning and technology.
The Scott Monument is a huge, stone Gothic structure with four buttresses supporting a spire.
The church is dominated by the massive nave and graceful flying buttresses linking the five chapels to the chancel.
The dome was damaged by earthquakes several times, and the supporting buttresses have coarsened the church’s outward appearance.
The architect, Sinan, strengthened the buttresses and added the other three minarets during the 16th century, the structure was last renovated in the 1840s.
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