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" ; the total depth of the building is nearly equal to the frontage; the height from pavement to cornice is 60 ft.
[1] The cornice seemed firm; still we cast about for some piece of rock which might shelter us from the destroyer should he leap from his lair.
Here and there upon the northern side the snow was folded over, and we worked slowly upward along the cornice snow.
For a long time the snow cornice hung high above us; we now approached its level; the last cliff formed a sloping stair with geologic strata for steps.
But the smoke would again whirl in upon us, and we looked once more into infinite haze from the cornice which lists the mountain-ridge.
A wilder precipice is hardly to be seen than this wall of the Eiger, viewed from the cornice at its top.
When the cornice became unsafe, the guide retreated, and step-cutting recommenced.
We went upward along the edge of the cone with the noble sweep of the snow cornice at our left.
Between the chief building and western wing arose a very tall and rather slender square chimney of hard Dutch bricks, alternately black and red:-a slight cornice of projecting bricks at the top.
The walls on either side were of bronze from end to end, and the cornice was of blue enamel.
She lay in bed with open eyes, by the light of a single burned-down candle, gazing at the carved cornice of the ceiling and at the shadow of the screen that covered part of it, while she vividly pictured to herself how he would feel when she would be no more, when she would be only a memory to him.
Massivity informs the details: sturdy Tuscan columns, a heavy cornice at the eaves of the large roof, rugged window frames.
The site chosen is a stout horizontal branch, or the top of a post, and they also frequently build on a cornice or the roof of a house; and sometimes, but rarely, on the ground.
A large white cat was mounted on the cornice of a cupboard, at the far end of the apartment, where he seemed to have taken refuge.
""Then they've not gone to bed yet? What do you think? Mind now, don't forget to put out my new coat,"" added Rostov, fingering his new mustache.
""Now then, get on,"" he shouted to the driver.
""Do wake up, Vaska!"" he went on, turning to Denisov, whose head was again nodding.
""Come, get on! You shall have three rubles for vodka-get on!"" Rostov shouted, when the sleigh was only three houses from his door.
It seemed to him the horses were not moving at all.
At last the sleigh bore to the right, drew up at an entrance, and Rostov saw overhead the old familiar cornice with a bit of plaster broken off, the porch, and the post by the side of the pavement.
He sprang out before the sleigh stopped, and ran into the hall.
The house stood cold and silent, as if quite regardless of who had come to it.
There was no one in the hall.
""Oh God! Is everyone all right?"" he thought, stopping for a moment with a sinking heart, and then immediately starting to run along the hall and up the warped steps of the familiar staircase.
The well-known old door handle, which always angered the countess when it was not properly cleaned, turned as loosely as ever.
A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom.
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