This dome is the most conspicuous object in the city.

The two other domes were the hot baths, one of which had cocks of cold water turning into it, to temper it to what degree of warmth the bathers have a mind to.

The dome of S. Peter's, as seen from Tivoli or the Alban hills, like a cloud upon the Campagna, is Buonarroti's; but he has no share in the façade that screens it from the piazza.

Then did Sindbad know that the dome was an egg, and that the bird was the bird roc, which feeds its young upon elephants.

Its internal diameter is 19½ feet, and the dome is 8 inches in thickness and has a radius of 16½ feet.

The dome is 66 feet in diameter and its height from the pavement to the top is 268 feet.

It was more suitable to domestic than to ecclesiastical work; but the dome is an impressive feature, and St. Peter's a noble church.

Spears of light flashed from the brazen-winged horses above Alexander's bridge, and the dome of the Invalides was a golden crown above a snow-white palace.

The great dome of the mosque is the grandest in all the Orient, but the body of the edifice, made to resemble an octagonal tent, and covered with blue and white tiles, is not high enough to do it justice.

This dome is Michael Angelo's supreme achievement as an architect.

Once more the vast dome of heaven became the roof of my house, and within the house was rebuilded that which my soul called beautiful.

The domes that crown these four minarets are exact miniatures of that which covers the tomb.