Sentence examples for high pagoda from inspiring English sources

The 7-story high Pagoda, anchored to the mountainside with 16 tons of bolts, was built in 1906 as a luxury resort, but the builder, failing to obtain a liquor license, went bankrupt.

020-7930 7166 Built by William Chambers in 1762, when Britain was in love with all things Chinese, the 50m-high pagoda was intended as a surprise for Kew's grande dame, Princess Augusta.

The book is fragile and must remain open to the page showing the extraordinary 163-foot-high pagoda at Kew .Perry Guillot, a co-chairman, said finding local gardens that related to the theme for Sunday's tours had been a challenge.

His latest projects for F. A. O. Schwarz include a motorized dinosaur head (the jaw chews); a Barbie castle, about 12 feet by 16 feet, with architectural details like gumdrops that light up; and a ceiling-high pagoda topped with foam tubing he shaped to make a gracefully curved traditional roof.

Boasting the highest pagoda in Japan (five stories, 180 feet) and massive structures with multitiered brackets, this is a major architectural complex with a lotus pond and gardens.

This belief affects its location to be in the most center of the historic area and has the highest pagoda in Chiang Mai.

The 96m-high golden pagoda rises up like a mirage, bringing to mind Burma's famous Shwedagon Pagoda.

CNPC built the high-rise, pagoda-roofed Beijing hotel as a gift to Astana.

Atop one of Bagan's pagodas, a high school student checked that no one was within earshot before telling us about his participation in the pro-democracy movement.

For example, unlike in 1833, the several stories high Taleju and Pashupati pagodas resisted damage.

Despite it being 28 metres (92ft) high, you cannot see the pagoda for the trees.