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...tand for the earth and rise on a path laid bare to the eyes. And the ivory ceilings look down upon her. 35 Journey X The sun shines, glorifying her w...

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...rtains drape man-sized windows. Tinkling chandeliers hang from the stucco-decorated ceilings. It reminds me of a Habsburg-era opera house. Eichmann ...

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... Helen looked around her new home and was surprised at its size and elegance. It had old timbered ceilings and polished wood flooring, covered by ri... ...houseboats on the River Thames. Constructed entirely of wood, the rooms had walnut panelling and ceilings. A large, open drawing room, with elegant ...

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...n horror as the Draxen Stronghold shook violently under the power of the blast. Walls and ceilings were ripped apart. Many of the soldiers and their... ...laj’s head, chest and arms, but his lower body was pinned too tightly under the rubble of ceilings, walls and beams. Traeus tried hard, but he could...

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...ee terror lurking in her gaze. “Laylah?” he prompted. “It has really high ceilings and it smells like chemicals. It's big enough to fit Britta’s part...

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...ight money market has been restricted to banks and primary dealers. Higher ceilings have been imposed on their borrowing and lending operations in thi... ...eliverable currency forwards, cross-currency swaps and forwards. Also, new ceilings have been imposed on domestic banks and branches of foreign banks ...

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... scientific and business field. Women are still pushing against the glass ceilings, ceilings that are much higher in the less developed countries, bu...

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...d upgrade all wet areas of the old weatherboard house with its decorative ceilings and open fireplaces. As Chris was no stranger to a paintbrush or ... ...n the threadbare carpet on the spacious floor of the grand room with high ceilings and fancy cornices. Antique furnishings were placed in a manner th... ...was nothing like the church he attended as a child with its old cathedral ceilings and uncomfortable wooden pews. He was surprised at the amount of ...

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...ld. How nice.” She ushered them into an elegant living room with ten- foot ceilings, filled with antique furniture, and indicated that they should sit... ...t she was cramped and uncomfortable. Cracks of light were vis- ible in the ceilings again, and she crawled out of the van. She checked her watch for t...

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.... To the uninitiated, the house is rambling with hidden passages, dark corners, low ceilings, folklore and horror stories, and accumulations of tons...

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...her people who exhibited the highest human traits. ―We can also learn much from self-actualizing, mentally healthy people. ‗They have higher ceilin...

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...one must find me! He slammed into walls, bashed his head against so many ceilings he was sure his skull was scraped bone raw. Some primordial urge...

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.... The large area had the feel of a top-secret project. Concrete walls and ceilings secured advanced computer systems that were all fully functional....

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...ing to brag about. The interior has worn carpets, smoke stained walls and ceilings, dusty benches, dusty artificial plants, dusty cocktail glasses, ...

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... blocks gleaming with mica, windows fashioned of paper-thin minerals, thick ceilings guarding against the heat and supported by numerous columns—bef...

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...d gypsum in mass produced wallboards: used to make all the interior walls and ceilings of nearly every modern building. Replacing the older method o... ...nder the buildings they lived-in. Then rich people built houses with vaulted ceilings that looked like the burial vaults of ancient Kings. Then ban... ... of ancient Kings. Then banks created sanctified palaces with somber vaulted ceilings to keep their sacred money in. Now all banks have vaults: to ... ... They have always permeated it. Why do you think they manage to get vaulted ceilings into buildings? Just so living idiots could look up and admi... ...ok down on unsuspecting living congregations. Why do you think they had the ceilings and walls of huge buildings painted and covered with mythic h... ...f human spirits. Images of them of them are everywhere… on the walls, on the ceilings, as busts, as statues, even inside the glass windows for god’...

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...side; the vestibules are crowded with frescoes, and made light by sky-blue ceilings across which graceful figures float amid ornament rich in design, ... ... had furnished some contribution to the splendor that decked the walls and ceilings. But now the panels were stripped of the handsome hangings, the me... ...panels were stripped of the handsome hangings, the melan- 13 Balzac choly ceilings were speechless and sad. No Turkey carpets, no lustres bright with... ... an- tique Venetian furniture, and employed skilled hands to re- store the ceilings. There, old Venice lived again. The splen- dor was not merely nobl... ...duced, having taken example from Venice. Here were to be seen the original ceilings of woodwork cov- ered with scrolls and flowers in gold on a colore... ...scrolls and flowers in gold on a colored ground, or in colors on gold, and ceilings of gilt plaster castings, with a picture of many figures in each c... ...accommodate eight or ten per- sons, are decorated with handsome silks, the ceilings are painted and ornamented in light and pleasing colors; the woodw...

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...antiquated finery, in great, rambling, time stained apartments, with fretted ceilings, gilded cornices, and enormous marble fireplaces. The lanes and ...

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...have already spoken. While the objects around me—while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the flo...

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...industrious Parisian workmen had moulded the doors and window- frames; the ceilings were imitated from the middle-ages or those of a Venetian palace; ... ...the mantel-pieces and the panels above the doors; Schinner had painted the ceilings in his masterly manner. The beau- ties of the staircase, white as ...