The enclosed tunneled flights were revived in the early Renaissance, but open interior staircases on an ambitious spatial scale cannot really be found before Michelangelo's at the Laurentian Library, Florence (1524 71).
Early in the 20th century the Rock was tunneled to facilitate communication between the peninsula's east and west sides, and the excavated material was used to reclaim 64 acres (26 hectares) from the sea and thus expand the area of the cramped settlement.
This section of the estuary has been tunneled three times: two road tunnels (one opened in 1971) and one railway tunnel link Liverpool (north) with Birkenhead (south).
Its lines were excavated from the surface and permanently covered rather than tunneled.
He rented the dwelling near Westminster from which the conspirators initially tunneled toward the palace.
The wine is stored in large cellars tunneled in the chalk that underlies the district.
Any physical barrier can be tunneled under or climbed over or gotten around.
Instead, on Saturday, Guzmán was shipped to Altiplano — the very prison he tunneled out of in July.
Sloughing tendons and fasciae were exposed, the muscles were tunneled and separated by gaping sinuses, between which he could glimpse a raw tibial bone that looked as if a dog had gnawed it.
The autostrada arced out over canyons and tunneled for miles through the hulk of the Apennine Mountains (where I spotted a mysterious underground exit for a particle-physics lab nicknamed "Il Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico").
Ms. Palin's politics can border on the atavistic, but beyond her Tea Party theatrics, she has tunneled her own route into the public consciousness and gone into the Sarah Palin Across America business.
