34 adjectives to describe erection

The stage is generally a temporary erection improvised in a market-place, and the stage arrangements are of the most primitive character; no scenery is employed, and the actors introduce themselves in a sort of prologue, in which they state the name and character they represent in the drama.

But nothing is visible here now, except the pretty little round temple of a later date, which is believed to have been that of Portunus, the god of the landing-place from the river.[20] The Circus, some six hundred yards long, at the time of Cicero was still mainly a wooden erection in the form of a long parallelogram, with shops or booths sheltering under its sides; we shall visit it again when dealing with the public entertainments.

Upon the legendary discovery of the Holy Sepulchre by Helena, the mother of Constantine, about three hundred years after the death of Christ, and the consequent erection, as it is said, by her great sonthe first Christian emperor of Romeof the magnificent Church of the Holy Sepulchre over the sacred spot, a tide of pilgrimage set in toward Jerusalem which increased in strength as Christianity gradually spread throughout Europe.

The west gallery was added in the early eighteenth century and is a handsome erection.

The original building was a magnificent erection comparable with Blenheim, and built by the same architectVanburghfor George Dodington, one time Lord of the Admiralty.

We made shelter for ourselves under the branches of the few trees that grew in the uncultivated ground on either side of the roadand a hasty erection, half tent half shed, was put up for a place to assemble in, or for those who were unable to bear the heat of the day or the occasional chills of the night.

There is one ancient tower, with its battlements and winding stairs, yet remaining; the rest of the house is, though not modern, of later erection.

I placed his desk close up to a small side-window in that part of the room, a window which originally had afforded a lateral view of certain grimy back-yards and bricks, but which, owing to subsequent erections, commanded at present no view at all, though it gave some light.

Hence also, probably, the Ital. balco, or pulcoy a scaffold; a loftlike erection supported upon beams."

It is singular to observe the fertile erections of monopoly in a state founded on principles of commercial freedom.

The poorer class of dwellings are flimsy erections of nipa, built on four strong posts.

This is now known as the town hall, and contrasts very favourably with the hideous erections built in modern times in some of our English towns for this purpose.

The resolutions they forwarded to the Virginia Legislature, asked the immediate erection of Kentucky into an independent state, and expressed the conviction that the new commonwealth would undoubtedly be admitted into the Union.

Yet this immense erection is all formed of complete and distinct parts, not half as large as the room we are now sitting in.

He was an architect fallen to ruin along with the little Gothic erections he had raised at great expense in the Paris suburbs about 1840.

It surmounts a mid-Victorian erection of variegated bricks in about the worst possible taste for its situation.

There is a military mission at Mamoura, where all the buildings are permanent erections solidly built of stone, for no merely temporary occupation is intended, and thousands of freight-cars with Belgian marks upon them throng the railways, and on some is the significant German title of 'Military Headquarters of the Imperial Staff.'

It was thus described by Mr. Nightingale in 1818: "The chapel itself is a very plain erection.

She found herself a good deal shaken, and walked fast because thus her limbs did not tremble so much, while the glaring September afternoon made her miss the parasol she had left in the carriage, and find little comfort in the shadeless erection on her head.

What a stiff British erection my hair feels beside the careless looseness of these shining twists!

On the tops of these artificial hills there were sundry rickety-looking erections, and around them were troughs and sheds and rude water-works.

Since our last visit, many of the tenants have begun to hybernate, and tasteful erections have been made for their winter quarters in all parts of the gardens.

There was a fireplace in the north end of it with twin brick erections on either side which they thought must have been used for drying apples.

It surmounts a mid-Victorian erection of variegated bricks in about the worst possible taste for its situation.

It would seem that he was not much molested by external enemies for twenty years after making Jerusalem his capital, but reigned in peace, devoting himself to the welfare of his subjects, and collecting materials for the future building of the Temple,its actual erection being denied to him as a man of blood.

34 adjectives to describe  erection