How To Use Rotunda In A Sentence
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Here the image is of a literal place, a location at Fawns: ‘an ancient rotunda, pillared and statued, nicked and roofed’, surrounded by ‘alleys… densely overarched with the climbing rose’.
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At Boldt Castle in the past three years a grand staircase, a great stained-glass dome, and a marble pavement have been installed in the central rotunda.
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In the rotunda was a hollow section of one of the largest trees that grow in the Maraposa grove of red woods in California.
Elsie at the World's Fair
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The major interior space, the Potomac rotunda, balloons under a domed ceiling with an oculus, reaching a height of 120 feet.
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The earliest building is a mid-nineteenth-century workhouse and the most fascinating is the rotunda ward block, built in 1885.
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Although there are relatively few introduced species present on Fraser Island in comparison to other mainland areas, there are extensive and widespread infestations of groundsel Baccharis halimolia and lantana Lantana camara, while species such as bitou bush Chrysanthemoides monilifera rotundata, sisal hemp Agave sisalana, and Easter cassia Senna pendula glabrata are significant localized problems.
Fraser Island, Australia
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In a 5-cm-diameter dish, we placed a randomly chosen, sprayed I. rotunda fruit beside a randomly chosen, unsprayed I. rotunda fruit.
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White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping.
Ulysses
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Charlotte's sanctuary is described as ‘an ancient rotunda, pillared and statued, niched and roofed, densely overarched,’ a perfect replica of Maggie's mental image.
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Alerted by radio, at least a dozen armed police gave chase, converging on him from both directions as he raced around the rotunda.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Two flights of stairs swept from the vestibule to a landing, with a door opening to the rotunda gallery.
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From the museum rotunda, a huge angular mirror draws you into the exhibition space.
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Waterplace is itself an artistic masterpiece: a curving waterway of canals, street lights, brick and stone steps, platforms for benches, restaurants, and small rotundas.
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The word "welcome" is sprawled across five panels in 16 languages, from Russian to Urdu, in the Park Ridge school's rotunda.
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Inside the rotunda are flowers, ivy and a single Japanese maple tree that provides shade for the graves.
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Canova's Napoleon was not presented in incongruous isolation but rather in its own room, like an urban temple, as the rotunda of a sculpture gallery.
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Yesterday, the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin reported that the two-week old quins were continuing to make progress.
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One of Rotunda's arguments is this: ‘Judges do not divorce themselves from the world when they don their robes.’
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In front of the corridor of the rotunda is a projecting balcony, with six gigantic female figures on the corners of its balustrade representing Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878
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When I go to work each day in the Hugo Black courthouse and see the bust of that judge in the rotunda, I cannot help but say the prayer for Father Coyle that he used as the title of a poem: requiescat in pace.
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If he treats the rotunda like the tower, some solar shading may be in the works.
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Capitol itself and it will make its way eventually to the Rotunda -- but a lot of people, Tom De Frank, as we review the Ford presidency don't necessarily recall the tumultuousness of the U.S. foreign policy crises that were still unfolding then.
CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2006
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We are presented with images of performing military bands in rotundas being watched by finely dressed women and British soldiers.
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Cold stone hallways wound away from the central rotunda where Mera stood.
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After it briefly was displayed in the Rotunda, the statue was banished to a storeroom.
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It was destroyed in 1799, but descriptions and drawings show that it consisted of three rooms en suite leading to the principal rotunda with a vaulted ceiling.
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Visitors during the summer of 2002 may expect to see a new black-and-white marble floor in the rotunda beneath the dome.
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We must, however, interpret in greater detail; the Rotunda is the buttock which is regularly associated by the child with the genital, the smaller front structure is the scrotum.
Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
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Rotunda -- brought on a serious attack of "lithiasis" as it is now called, and prostrated me for two months, until it was time to leave England en route for my post.
Arabian nights. English
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Circular rotundas and sweat houses, often rebuilt multiple times, are numerous.
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There's a re-creation of the entrance to Garagia Rotunda, the garage studio in Cape Cod, Mass., designed by architecture critic and historian Charles Jencks, who purportedly coined the term postmodernism.
History, Repeating Itself
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Two years ago female members of Congress pushed to relocate the statue to the Rotunda.
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Species include Aristolochia rotunda (Smearwort); Atriplex prostrata (Spear-leaved Orache); and Chenopodium album (White Goosefoot).
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Ranelagh featured a circle of boxes in the rotunda interior, as you can see in the Canaletto painting, which was decorated with paintings and lamps.
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It's always a mistake to leave home without my camera .... but yesterday I did, so, after lunch, hoping my aurality would be heightend, I went to check out Bill Fontana's installation in the rotunda of City Hall.
ZYZZYVASPEAKS
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Like its predecessor, "The Lost Symbol" offers a mini-course in arcane historical detail (did you know that the Capitol once had an eternal flame burning beneath the floor under its rotunda?).
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Directly above them in the coved gallery ceiling, a continuous plaster molding in the form of a decorative beribboned garland encircled the entire rotunda.
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I was back recently to the Round Room under the heavy drum of the central rotunda from which the Four Courts radiate.
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The entrance rotunda is rendered in light tones and polished surfaces, dominated by a large, banded window punctuated with green glass.
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Richly detailed Rotunda Lobby, including restoration of the "scagliola" faux marble wainscot and recreation of the long-lost mural over the entrance doors
Gothamist
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Using historical photographs, they restored the rotunda and legislative chamber to their original antebellum style.
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An hour later, members of the public were allowed to sign a guest book and pay their respects to Hassell in the yellow-and-white rotunda, which is adorned by marble busts of Virginia-born presidents.
Mourners gather in memory of Hassell, first black to lead Virginia Supreme Court
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Under the rotunda was a low, broad marble counter, surmounted by a gleaming mirror and a noble array of bottles, flasks, decanters, goblets and glasses of every size.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
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Similar to the curving rotundas of many capitol buildings, but, crucially, allowing in more daylight, it is monumental without losing its human scale.
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As late as 1928, Gunnar Asplund was lining the great rotunda at the Stockholm Public Library with books.
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The trade fairs, like the Pitti Uomo men's event this week, are held in a cluster of ancient fortress buildings with red tile roofs, octagonal rotundas and vast "dogana," or customs centers.
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The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture – Sainte-Catherine, after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochere of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white rotunda with two wings, brightened up with green shutters, the bucolic dream of
Les Miserables
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First thing you see in the rotunda is the statue of Chief Washakie.
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To create a dramatic backdrop for presentations, plays, weddings, and other events, a portion of the curved lower wall of the rotunda was re-created in the center of the building.
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All of the collection's pictures were displayed in long and narrow rooms on the second floor around a rotunda containing sculpture.
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In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
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Atelier Ted Noton of the Netherlands offers an alluring vision of high-class kitsch — a "vertical rainbow" of Swarovski crystals falling from the top of the rotunda to a pool on the floor, where they would be "aspirated" back to the top to descend again.
Ramping Up Wright's Vision
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The center of Schinkel's building also contained a large rotunda, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, where statues of the ancient gods inhabited niches recessed in the circular floor.
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Some of the ceilings, especially that of the domed rotunda and the dining room, are richly decorated.
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After last year's debacle over religious symbols in the capitol rotunda, state officials have issued new permanent rules barring all nongovernment displays inside the Capitol campus building.
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The Ciceronian Review also quarrels with the rotunda analogy.
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The front door leads into a rotunda with a domed ceiling decorated with rosettes in the coffers.
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We threaded our way back along the line, around the south side of the rotunda under City Hall's famous gold-trimmed dome.
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Some of the ceilings, especially that of the domed rotunda and the dining room, are richly decorated.
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They learned fairly to live in the perfunctory; they remained in it as many hours of the day as might be; it took on finally the likeness of some spacious central chamber in a haunted house, a great overarched and overglazed rotunda, where gaiety might reign, but the doors of which opened into sinister circular passages.
The Golden Bowl — Complete
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That's when they put the casket in the rotunda and everybody comes to see him.
RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
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Collocabatur in medio domûs emaculatæ odoribus Arabicis undique, lance rotunda pure superposita, ex diversis metallicis materiis fabrefacta; cujus in ambitu rotunditatis extremo elementorum viginti quatuor scriptiles formæ incisæ perite, dijungebantur spatiis examinate dimensis.
Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Some object to this new suit of clothes for the Rotunda, but I say phooey.
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The picture galleries of the High Museum are treated as subsidiary spaces shunted off from the proportionally dominant, glass-paneled entry rotunda, which is flooded with daylight and unusable for the display of works that require careful conservation.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
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Upon entering the hall from the gallery of the rotunda, the viewer faced the elevated rostrum of the speaker at the south end, located under an arch that featured coffers filled with plaster rosettes.
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Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
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Like its predecessor, "The Lost Symbol" offers a mini-course in arcane historical detail (did you know that the Capitol once had an eternal flame burning beneath the floor under its rotunda?).
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In the center of this Greek cross plan, he placed a rotunda surmounted by a low dome topped by a lantern.
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Like Vauxhall, Ranelagh was in the Rocco style, and featured an impressive rotunda and a Chinese pavilion as well as several walks and a lake.
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Interspersed between the openings of the rotunda were four arched niches set into the wall.
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Whitehall, hangs in the great upper rotunda, which is a setting not unworthy of its fame.
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He wrapped the rotunda in a translucent scrim, thus transforming the ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright's building into a tunnel, within which the individual garments were dramatically spotlit.
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Above this is a four-sided arched structure, and this is surmounted by a rotunda with Corinthian columns enclosing two statues.
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Although the inscription on the pediment declares, "M. Agrippa, son of Lucius, Consul during his third consulate, built this," it was actually Hadrian who built the Pantheon as a rotunda.
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The center of Schinkel's building also contained a large rotunda, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, where statues of the ancient gods inhabited niches recessed in the circular floor.
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The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens was always an important venue for musical concerts, so it was a terrible shame when the rotunda was finally closed in 1803 and soon demolished.
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Cardo extus umbonibus minutis, intus singulse valvule constans lamina rotundata, introrsum versa, concava; in al - tera testa juxta hunc cardinem est squamula erecta, complicata, cui in opposita testa respondet squama erecta, plana.
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Both types are eaten boiled, mashed, fried, etc. In Africa D. rotundata types are used in large quantities for the preparation of 'fufu'.
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Their voices carried clearly under the immense dome of the rotunda, and the scraping of chairs as they sat down would have pushed the needle of an audiometer into the high sector.
Quiller Meridian
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Visitors during the summer of 2002 may expect to see a new black-and-white marble floor in the rotunda beneath the dome.
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From the 20,000 reference books lying open to the consultation of all readers in the great rotunda of the British Museum reading room, to the small and select case of dictionaries, catalogues, cyclopaedias, and other works of reference in a town or subscription library, the interval is wide indeed.
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It stands in the centre of the arched rotunda, which is common to all denominations, and from which branch off the various chapels belonging to each particular sect.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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An octagon tower surrounds the rotunda, which is ornamented with Grecian cornices, etc., and its dome is decorated at top with a similar ornament to that of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, commonly called the Lanthorn of Demosthenes.
A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913
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When you first walked in and entered the small rotunda, there was a blind window that had been revealed.
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This part has a round cavity called fenestra rotunda, which is covered with a thin elastic membrane, and looks into the tympanum.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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After it briefly was displayed in the Rotunda, the statue was banished to a storeroom.
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There were also four round, usually open, sugar bowls resembling water basins and four large low bowls on brazierlike stands, two for each side of the rotunda.
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An assortment of vases and faience was displayed on a built-in shelf that circled the rotunda.
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The front door leads into a rotunda with a domed ceiling decorated with rosettes in the coffers.
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Upon entering the hall from the gallery of the rotunda, the viewer faced the elevated rostrum of the speaker at the south end, located under an arch that featured coffers filled with plaster rosettes.
