Sentence examples for granary with from inspiring English sources

He then ran uphill to the granary, with Spanish bullets deflecting off the stone, and set fire to the building's entrance.

It occupies a subterranean chamber beneath the former city granary, with soaring columns that make you feel as though you are dining in a cathedral; climb to the gallery and it looks positively theatrical.

Near the Amalienborg Palace, the 366-room Copenhagen Admiral Hotel, 24-28 Toldbodgade, (45) 33741414 14, fax (45) 33 74 14 16, is housed in an 18th-century granary with atmospheric barrel-vaulted hallways.

Mr. Hao's agents stuffed the granary with bags of rotten wheat and set loose rats and snakes, said the Economic Information Daily, then called in television cameras to expose what appeared to be Mr. Liu's mismanagement.

Down on the East River gold coast — "Every coast is a 'gold coast,' " Ms. Zukin noted — she pointed out a former dockworker bar with a neon Brooklyn Beer sign in the window (Brooklyn is now branded hip) and a low-slung old granary with a MacBook-speckled coffee bar.

Book the "Collette" suite in the new annex, a two-story stone granary with a private garden terrace.

At Kiet Siel, a cliff dwelling now part of Navajo National Monument in northeast Arizona, people sealed the openings of granaries with carefully fitted rock slabs, caulking the edges with a collar of clay.

The magnitude and mechanism of agrarian taxation enabled the sultan to achieve two important objectives: (1) to ensure supplies at low prices to grain carriers and (2) to fill the state granaries with a buffer stock, which, linked with his famous price regulations, came as a solution to the critical financial problem of maintaining a large standing army.

Touring the cities, you pass stables with handles used to tether the animals, churches with altars and baptism pools, walls with air circulation holes, granaries with grindstones and blackened kitchens with ovens.

In London, we saw the rise of the first mega-bucks English breakfasts and I fed my growing waistline with £20 plates of Cumberland sausage, organic goose eggs, homemade baked beans, hash browns, portobello mushrooms and endless granary toast with lightly salted butter, served with cafetieres of freshly brewed coffee.

Toasted granary bread with damson jam, a pair of goldfinches on the bird-feeder.