Sentence examples for could gaze down from inspiring English sources

Low mountain ridges sprang up from nowhere, as if pulled from a bedsheet of dry earth, and from their tops, I could gaze down on low-altitude zones of green, damp marshland.

Up a primitive, winding dirt road I came upon the Coll church some distance from the tiny village past a directional sign on which someone had scrawled in Catalan, "Coll, center of the universe". The church was tightly fenced about, but with the help of a stone wall you could gaze down upon its Romanesque beauty.

Designed by Philip Johnson, the flamboyant doyen of architectural opportunists, the State Pavilion was to be the biggest and best building of them all, with "Sky Streak" glass lifts zipping visitors up to the "Astro-View" observation decks, from where they could gaze down on the multicoloured roof of the "Tent of Tomorrow".

And  there would be exterior windows in the private "orbital pleasure dome," so clubgoers could gaze down at Earth during romantic interludes including, you guessed it, sex in space, the writers added.

Visitors could either gaze down into the pools or descend into what Mr. Arad envisioned as a cool, dim, contemplative space vital to the experience.

In World War II, though she was boxed for protection, two holes had to be drilled near her eyes so she could continue to gaze down upon her devotees.

For most of his life, he looked out at the city from the nineteenth floor of the Beresford, where from his large patio he could gaze south down Central Park West toward Broadway, which dimmed its lights in honor of his passing.

Sculpted lions gaze down from sepulchers.

Buddhas gaze down on 57th Street.

They gaze down without a hint of concern.

They gaze down on the current players, perhaps evaluating them.