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...rcled the top service level with other areas branching off from it. Steel girders segregated white tiled wall panels; repairs and cleanliness implie... ... surroundings. Pylons in the centre of the long platforms supported steel girders and a concrete ceiling. Huge grates in the walls shrouded fans, gi... ...rred to him that Alex may be trying to protect them from Alexandra. Steel girders and concrete made up the cold, well lit truck bay smelling of oil ...

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...f cool white light shamed the pale sunbeams that filtered down through the girders and wires. Here and there a gossamer suspension bridge dotted with ... ... he came, and beheld through the glassy roof and the network of cables and girders, dim rhyth- mically passing forms like the vans of windmills, and b... ... ungainly Titans of shadow. All about them, huge metallic structures, iron girders, inhumanly vast as it seemed to him, interlaced, and the edges of w... ...he great passage with the running ways, the hanging lights and interlacing girders. They rushed upward and by him. He had a momentary impression of a ... ...heir inscriptions and advertisements indistinctly seen, and up through the girders and cables was a faint interrupted rib- bon of pallid sky. A number... ...nter sky. Gaunt ruinous masses of the building, mighty truncated piers and girders, rose dismally out of this cavernous darkness. And over these vesti... ...at had been destroyed by 103 H G Wells the Council’s orders, skeletons of girders, Titanic masses of wall, forests of stout pillars. Amongst the somb... ...crushed and overthrown ma- sonry, and on this a stage of timbers and metal girders was being hastily constructed. Its essential parts were complete, b... ...ad replaced iron in architecture. Their higher tiers formed an openwork of girders through which lifts and staircases ascended. The upper surface was ...

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...inter strives, to achieve the simplicity of per- fection. He will make his girders and rails and parts as gra- cious as that first engineer, Nature, h... ...ellow ivory; the colour is a little irregular, and a partial confession of girders and pillars breaks this front of tender colour with lines and mould...

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... old gate of Capri, caught into the wall of a gallery high overhead. Light girders, stems and threads of gold, burst from the pillars like fountains, ...

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...ot a woman!” A shiny barrel glittered for a minute in the moonlight on the girders. The Mugger was lying on the sand-bar as still as his own shadow, h...

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... old gate of Capri, caught into the wall of a gallery high overhead. Light girders, stems and threads of gold, burst from the pillars like fountains, ...

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...kness, the glimmer of rails between the masonry platforms, and the maze of girders above. He stood in a gigantic stone hall paved, it seemed, with the...

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...craps of conversation car ried on in whispers. Above us, the massive iron girders of the arch were faintly visible, and below us its ponderous shadow...

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...plinters, shivered from boughs to base, and further a twisted mass of iron girders—only too evidently the via- duct—rose out of the piled confusion. ... ... old gate of Capri, caught into the wall of a gallery high overhead. Light girders, stems and threads of gold, burst from the pillars like fountains, ...

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...with winking lights, and beyond that, at the extreme end of the vista, the girders and cables of the La Salle Street bridge. The sidewalks on either h...

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...very lofty; so lofty that the ban ners depending from the arched beams and girders away up there floated in a sort of twilight; there was a stone ra...

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... bridge, in the train, having glimpses of the river between the great iron girders, she cried: ‘I feel I could never see this foul town again—I couldn...

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...oung days, and could play weel on the pipes; he was famous at ‘Hoopers and Girders’—a’ Cumberland couldna, touch him at ‘Jockie Lattin’—and he had the...

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...ers, filled within and daubed without with mud, to support the last of the girders as those were riveted up. In the little deep water left by the drou... ...f of the railway line hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clustered round the throats of the piers, and rode on the overhang... ...s bridge before him in the sunlight, lacking only a few weeks’ work on the girders of the three middle piers – his bridge, raw and ugly as original si... ...- ers began a night’s work, racing against the flood that was to come. The girders of the three centre piers - those that stood on the cribs -were all... ...ut boats adrift, if the flood chanced to be a high one, might endanger the girders; and there was a very fleet in the shrunken channel. “Get them behi...

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...ers, filled within and daubed without with mud, to support the last of the girders as those were riveted up. In the little deep water left by the drou... ... of the railway-line, hung from invisible staging under the bellies of the girders, clus- tered round the throats of the piers, and rode on the overha... ...s bridge before him in the sunlight, lacking only a few weeks’ work on the girders of the three middle piers—his bridge, raw and ugly as original sin,... ...eters began a night’s work, racing against the flood that was to come. The girders of the three centre piers—those that stood on the cribs—were all bu... ...ut boats adrift, if the flood chanced to be a high one, might endanger the girders; and there was a very fleet in the shrunken channel. “Get them behi... ...ly com- pelled to take steps.” Now the stringers of the ship are long iron girders, so to speak, that run lengthways from stern to bow. They keep the ...

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...ond stone wall, but at a safe distance from it, stretched a couple of iron girders serving as a barbarously cold seat for any un- fortunate who could ... ...uld make use of it to vault over the wall; to see that no one stood on the girders, for a similar reason; to keep watch over anyone who entered the sh... ...ved the official wrath and were enjoying the morning at their windows. The girders were used as a race-track. The beams supporting the shed-roof were ...

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...een, and in foggy weather and on still winter days, when its delicate iron girders and all the scaffolding around was covered with hoar frost, it pres...

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...scattered beams, When on the strand of the low thundering sea Men from great girders of a tall ship’s hull Strike out the bolts and clamps, and scatte...

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...n, drainage and water service, all of the primest quality. Iron clamps and girders, fire proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids...

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... of sparks, a deluge of nails, an ocean of pistons, vices, levers, valves, girders, files, and nuts; a sea of melted metal, baulks of timber and bar-s...

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... of heaven, and holds together the circle of the universe, like the under girders of a trireme. From these ends is extended the spindle of Neces sit...

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...ded tracks of railroads, Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches, Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal cra...