Workers burned its marble to make lime for use in mortar; beggars took shelter under its arches, and successive earthquakes toppled it further.
The book makes clear how close Goldman came to death: if Morgan Stanley went under, its arch-rival was "30 seconds behind", reckoned its boss, Lloyd Blankfein.Faced with extinction, these firms tried to change the very rules under which they had thrived for so long.
We walked under its arching neon sign, past the steel-bar door into pulsing darkness.
Secure under its arches, a small congregation gathers to hear short readings about the Virgin Mary, interspersed with carols by the fine small choir.
Swimming under its huge arch inspires the same wonder as the Blue Mosque in Istanbul or St Paul's in London: the rock doming above us, the buoyant sea holding us aloft.
Arlington House was the center of Lee's prewar life: he and his betrothed were wed under one of its arches, and his wife gave birth to six of their seven children there.
South Korea is trying to get under the skin of its arch-rival with border broadcasts that feature not only criticism of North Korea's nuclear program, troubled economy and human rights abuses, but also a unique homegrown weapon: K-pop.
In The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne's heroine Miriam slips unnoticed into the Colosseum, and there, under its "dusky arches", its "picturesque and gloomy wrong", she throws off her self-control and becomes "a mad woman concentrating the elements of a long insanity into that moment".
McDonald's is examining the sale of non-food items under its goldlike arches to drive up sales, a spokesman said.
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Men and women jog gently under its great steel arches, athletes go in and out of its giant installations, cyclists race up and down its lanes.
