Sentence examples for medieval pile from inspiring English sources

| The Met also presents concerts at the Cloisters, the authentically medieval pile situated near Manhattan's northern tip.

Last Wednesday, Shine a Light was given its debut at St Pancras Old Church, a much-restored medieval pile nestled alongside London's Eurostar terminus.

THE CLOISTERS: "THE PLAY OF DANIEL" "Danielis Ludus," a play with music that has its origins in twelfth-century Beauvais, was first presented at northern Manhattan's medieval pile fifty years ago in a famed production by Noah Greenberg.

LIONHEART Up at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum's grand medieval pile in northern Manhattan, the admired male choral sextet offers a program of Christmas music from fifteenth-century Italy.

It's a delight to linger over Bastian's hyper-ornate images: a pair of anthropomorphic swordfish in medieval armor battling atop a pile of seashells for an audience of goggle-eyed aquatic creatures, or a ship's kitchen crammed with enormous knives, birds nesting in pans, intricately decorated bottles and an immense, steaming caldron.

The Maidan, built in the very centre of the Ukrainian capital, has the feel of a medieval fortress, fenced off with piles of tyres, sandbags and wooden packing cases.

Zero: piss suitably boiled, the guy directly behind you smacks the back of your head with a briefcase, sending you tumbling down to platform level, and when the mob catches up with you it is game over, my friend – a pile-on of medieval brutality, brogue boots and swooshed trainers alike kicking you into a swollen mess.

Rug weaving in the Caucasus extends back at least to medieval times, as fragments of knotted pile carpet from the 13th and 14th centuries have been uncovered in several cave complexes in Georgia.

This Alice begins in the tranquil courtyard garden of St Hugh's: an early 20th-century pile, in contrast to the medieval splendours of other colleges.

Quite how it will play when some outrageous libel bill piles legal nonsense on top of medieval flummery remains obscure, too.

Although the style of the work is thoroughly classicising, the overall form reflects the grandest type of the medieval Italian wall tomb, in which the vertical piling-up of a series of different elements is characteristic.