Sentence examples for handrail of from inspiring English sources
This is the reason for the large number of bells (ghantamala) suspended on lattices on the handrail of the balustrade (vedika) around the stupas of ancient India.
"I think I'm going to faint," the tall, 35-year-old man said, grabbing the handrail of the stairs that led up from the beach.
Then she remembered tugging herself up the red handrail of her apartment building's staircase, escorted by two men in navy blue suits with radios crackling.
Video has emerged showing a passenger sliding down the handrail of a London Underground escalator, a drunken stunt ending in a loud and painful thud.
This week, commuters in Los Angeles were treated to the bizarre scene of a rat using the handrail of an escalator as a sort of treadmill.
In 1985, a 21-year-old fan from Yonkers, Mark Leddy, was killed when he slid down the handrail of a nonoperating escalator on the upper-deck level and tumbled over.
Travelers still grasp the globe-topped newel posts and thick brass handrails of the old Pennsylvania Station and unknowingly walk over its glass-block floors.
I loved the bittersweet scenes of Saajan clinging to the handrails of the crowded commuter carriage or smoking on the terrace of his home at night, like the loneliest figure this side of an Edward Hopper painting.
And beyond the gates, out over the black Thames, between the swooping, lit-up handrails of Britain's most currently infamous architectural experiment, there may be silhouettes moving about - illicit visitors: curious people testing the decking, couples smoking cigarettes in midstream, people just marvelling at the views and taut steel.
The handrails of this are short-termism in the City, the wider relationship between finance and industry, it is about taking on vested interests, it is about responsibility of employers for jobs and skills, and it is about the top, and their share of wealth and income.
Clutching the handrails of a ramp, the 79-year-old pope slowly climbed a small green metal platform built onto a rocky terrace and gazed out alone through the haze at the Dead Sea, Jericho and the hills of Jerusalem for several minutes, fingering the cross around his neck.
