Towers were made with massive, protruding feet to frustrate attempts at mining.
Unfortunately, the insomniac brain, surrounded by hard-edged metal partitions and protruding feet, rejects such easy consolation.
The mission to locate the Griffin, which was commanded by the French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier de la Salle, was lifted earlier this week as researchers inspected a wooden beam protruding feet from the lake bed that they said appeared to be a ship's bowsprit.
Chopping and hacking in the morning sun, they uncovered, bit by bit, a mass of red-brown soil, and before long they had revealed an earthen mound protruding several feet from the ground, like a lopsided bluff, and barely contained at its base by a low stone wall.
In Beijing he saw a towering pile of weathered wood stools, with elegantly carved aprons and legs, with hoof feet, scrolled feet and flat feet protruding here and there from a stack that looked like a bizarre offering to the gods of good taste.
Was the overhang, which protrudes eight feet into right field, in play?
Considerably less sombre is the Balancing Barn, in rural Suffolk, a long, shiny metal structure that protrudes fifty feet over a hill, less a barn than a covered bridge that stops in midair.
The law requires horizontal nets that protrude 10 feet around the perimeter of construction sites no more than two floors beneath a floor where concrete is being poured into forms, generally at the top floors.
To clear the way, Ellet placed a large rake that protruded 45 feet from the bow of one of his rams and used it to break the cables holding the torpedoes to the bottom.
The netting proved a lifesaver last week, when a construction worker fell from the 42nd floor of the Trump SoHo, a condominium hotel being built at Varick and Spring Streets, and was snared by a net that protruded 10 feet from the side of the building about two floors below where he was working.
Goldberger spent a night in the Balancing Barn, a shiny, asymmetrical arrangement of distorted gables in rural Suffolk, designed by the Dutch firm MVRDV, which protrudes fifty feet over a hill — "less a barn than a covered bridge that stops in midair," as Goldberger describes it.
