Sentence examples for pagoda it from inspiring English sources

Before the war, when it hung in a pagoda, it used to be rung every evening at sundown, when the gates closed for the night.

In general, buyers must pay a stamp duty ranging from 1 to 7 percent (on the Pagoda it would be 7 percent), along with about $3,000 in other fees.

Until recently, however, except for its London plane trees and Japanese pagoda trees, it looked more like a boomerang-shaped, half-acre wedge in the road.

Apart from such ecological and economical values of pagoda tree, it has a unique mythological importance to Chinese people.

Tomorrow, as per Clinton's itinerary, there will be further meetings, some photo calls, a walk around a pagoda, and then it will be home in time for the weekend.

There was a large, generic Chinese landscape painting on the lobby wall — mist, mountain, pagoda — and under it there was a folding table on which some children's toys and used books were stacked, presumably left there for the taking.

In 1049 the pagoda was rebuilt as it appears today, under the order of Emperor Renzong of Song.

As troops attempted to stretch a barbed wire barricade across a bridge leading to the pagoda, the crowd tore it down with their bare hands.

The map listed no place names, but it marked a pagoda near the Lou Guan Tai temple, calling it "Da Qin," one of whose meanings is "from the Roman Empire".

But a distinct and dramatic subset aims to underscore local culture, be it pagoda-style architecture at the new Four Seasons in Hangzhou, China, wok-manning cooks in the market-inspired Six Senses Con Dao in Vietnam or vernacular town house design at the Hotel Kanra in Kyoto, Japan.

Looking more like a beached supertanker than the usual stone-walled pagoda-hatted plant, it is intended to pour out 10m litres of whisky a year.It is a bold development, especially as the success of whisky's overseas marketing has been based on emphasising quality derived from more than a century of tradition and heritage.