Sentence examples for above the lantern from inspiring English sources

At first cannon were used, and later explosive charges were attached to retractable booms above the lantern and detonated electrically.

The tower walls are carried up above the lantern floor to support the metal framework for the lantern.

Make sure that the flame doesn't come near the paper and that there is nothing burnable above the lantern; remember that the flame does not need to come into contact with a surface to light it on fire.

Something of this idea persists in medieval examples such as the lantern above the central octagon of Ely Cathedral (14th century).

The dome, modified from Michelangelo's design, was finally completed at the insistence of Sixtus V (1585 90), and Gregory XIV (1590 91) ordered the erection of the lantern above it.

Van Gogh's trademark yellow lends itself to the heavenly appearance of the scene, and the lantern above the central figure serves as a halo.

The lantern is 146 feet above high-tide level.

The same day, showers of smaller rocks broke many panes of glass in the lantern, a hundred and thirty-two feet above the sea.

One November day in 1827, at the Bell Rock Light, on the east coast of Scotland, a heavy ground swell was running, although there was no wind; suddenly, one of the swells rose about the tower, mounted to the gilded ball atop the lantern, a hundred and six feet above the water, and tore away a ladder attached to the lighthouse at a height of eighty-six feet.

The lantern room was 231 feet above sea level, and climbing the 113 steps to the light was for younger folk.

Robert Stevenson noted that this destruction occurred at the same height "above the sea as the glass panes in the lantern of Smeaton's lighthouse" at Eddystone.