Sentence examples for by a continuous wall from inspiring English sources

Today the Corniche is a ribbon of beach huts, bathing clubs, and restaurants faced across the road by a continuous wall of hotels and apartment blocks.

The gallery is lit by a continuous wall of glass on its eastern side while its length is extended by oriel windows at each end, which from the exterior appear to cling perilously to the wall, supported only by a small corbel to the masonry.

The Romans set about reconstructing their city almost immediately, surrounding it with a continuous wall of huge tufa blocks.

Such a continuous wall could be built as a gabion wall and also used as a noise barrier.

The new walls had a continuous wall walk and were crenellated.

The third Fourier harmonic function was then used to approximate the discrete sample points into a continuous wall-thickening curve.

The steeply revetted slope of the mound was crowned by a continuous defensive wall, pierced by slit windows and entered through a gateway protected by flanking towers.

Instead his career on the court was marked by a continuous war against the Constitutional government and rule by law.

To reduce further the thickness of the wall (to the point of substituting large areas of glass for masonry), Gothic builders developed the flying buttress, which counteracts vault thrust not by continuous wall mass and weight but by counterthrust created by exterior half-arches placed at the height of the vaults at the points of greatest stress.

Village architecture of this period is undistinguished but provides evidence for the necessity of communal defense, which was accomplished by means of a circuit wall or as in Hacılar a continuous wall formed by the outside rear walls of contiguous houses.

Meanwhile, the gallery walls are covered by a continuous frieze of dancers, with coquettishly pursed lips and sensually closed eyes.