With its custom-installed parapet-to-parapet black carpet and handsome musclebound greeters, the evening had the charged, anticipatory feel of the prelude to a fashion show, with the dock to the Grand Canal as the ultimate runway for guests like Bianca Jagger, Mrs. Kempner, Mr. Bowles, Jacqueline de Ribes and Countess Giorgina Brandolini.
Addition of eaves to parapets amplifies the influence of the windbreaks on the catenary contact wires.
In the early morning, when she went to leave, the door to the parapet was stuck, and he had to use a power drill to get it open.
Many of his memories were about struggling to get enough to eat: he pointed to a parapet where he had put down bird traps ("I never caught any"), and to the roofs where his family had left almonds to dry.
The third floor of the tower was designed to have access to a parapet on the south-east wall, although this wall was never built.
It's time to stick our heads above the mast, nail our colours to the parapet and ask, 'who is going to win the Masters?'.
When they got to the garage Mr Milinković, who a friend said had been depressed lately, walked to a parapet, climbed over and then jumped to his death.
On page 44 there's a scene in which Simonides, who was famously ugly, recalls how, as a youth, he had resolved to kill himself: having climbed to the parapet of a temple, he looks up at the bright sky and realizes he's being foolish.
It has compelled constant adjustments to the parapets' perimeters to ensure the best sight lines.
The lengths of the aforementioned transverse cracks ranged, approximately, from 0.92 to 11 m and became smaller in sections close to the parapet walls.
