38 adjectives to describe railings

We had to shield our faces against the heat, and the wooden railing under our hands was growing warm.

On the left hand of this street, on proceeding from the Cathedral to the Porta Orientale, is a beautiful and extensive garden; an ornamental iron railing separates it from the street.

The tower is connected with the main body by a lobby, and will front the street, enclosed with a handsome railing.

One of them pretended to rest himself on the little railing which formed the sides of the raft, and with a knife began to cut the cords.

"Good morning, Agony, whither bound so early, and what means that portentous frown?" Agony looked up to see Miss Amesbury, wreathed in smiles, peering down over the rustic railing at her.

There were no massive railings, and lofty monuments, and no costly devices, but God had made this place very beautifulflowers were blooming along the well trodden paths, and around the last resting places of the dead.

Here all the windows were of the type called french, and opened inward from shallow balconies with wrought bronze railings.

The pleasantest Confusion imaginable is made through the whole Town by my Friends indirect Offices; you shall have a Visit returned after half a Years Absence, and mutual Railing at each other every Day of that Time.

A light low railing ran around the whole.

Day by day, in my little walks, I passed a large square encompassed by a low wall and lofty iron railing, in which several hundreds of boys and girls with rosy cheeks and light hearts, sported, and sang like fairies holding festival.

There is little internal ornament, however, except the tomb or mausoleum of St Charles Borromeo, round which is a magnificent railing; there are also the statues of this Saint and of St Ambrogio.

The mighty palm in the centre of Gordon Square had a neat railing round it, as befitted the Palladium of the village.

you will say, for all those who haunt it now, could get in just as well through closed doors and opposing railings; spectres and other supernatural beings never find any difficulty in insinuating themselves through keyholes and slipping between bars.

The tomb itself consists of a square stone, about ten feet by seven, surrounded with a plain iron-railing.

Well she remembered that nightthe man's scarcely veiled despair, his bitter railing against the ironies of life.

It has none of the ordinary protective railings; I must walk out alone, andI cannot see the other end; it is too far, too misty.

"You must not leave these narrow paths," said the rigid iron railings of black.

Suddenly he clutched my arm, and, pointing through some rude railings, said in a trembling voice, 'Yes, there it is!

The priest was so saturated with the atmosphere of the Cathedral, that in himself he seemed to unite all the various scents of the church; his cassock had collected the mouldy smell of the old stones and the rusty iron railings, and his mouth seemed to breathe of the gutters and the gargoyles, and the rank damp of the garrets.

From each side of the arch a semicircular railing will extend to the wings, executed in the most beautiful style, in cast-iron, and surmounted by tips or ornamental spears of mosaic gold.

Every one has been struck with repugnant melancholy in the city church-yard, where tomb presses against tomb, and multitude in death destroys identity, saving where the little greatness of wealth or rank may provide itself a separate railing or an overtopping urn.

These green-shaded yards were divided one from the other by slender iron railings, which formed a line of boundary, no more, and presented no obstacle to the exploring eye.

But the three adolescents, hanging over the well-designed solid mahogany railing, had not noses sensitive to this peculiar, very common blending of odors.

As he passed under the shadow of the huge soot-blackened cathedral, and looked at its grim spiked railings and closed doors, it seemed to him a symbol of the spiritual world, clouded and barred from him.

Fog: a man in a deck chair is playing a trumpet, his feet on the stern railing of a ferry.

38 adjectives to describe  railings