On the front-door steps he turned; once again he looked at the moon, at the grey cathedral, over the remoter spires and house-roofs fading into a blue sea of night-mist; he tasted the sweet breath of dusk, and noted the folded bloom of the garden; he suddenly looked round; a keen beam out of his eye rased the white façade of the classes, swept the long line of croisées.
Indeed, on the 2nd, peals of thunder were heard, the wind blew from the east, and hail rattled against the facade of Granite House like volleys of grape-shot.
The sun had now completely risen, and the whole facade of Granite House became illuminated by its rays; but in the interior as well as on the exterior all was quiet and calm.
The colonists were again shut up in Granite House, and as it was necessary to hermetically seal all the openings of the facade, only leaving a narrow passage for renewing the air, the consumption of candles was considerable.
This facade, situated at a height of eighty feet above the ground, was exposed to the east, and the rising sun saluted it with its first rays.
It was the Normans who began to build that fine old hall, which is, like the town, telling of the thoughts and hands of widely sundered generations; but it is all so old that we look with loving pardon at its inconsistencies, and are well content that they who built the stone oriel, and they who built the Gothic façade and towers of finest small brickwork with the trefoil ornament, and the windows and battlements defined with stone, did not sacrilegiously pull down the ancient half-timbered body
Beneath the neighborhood's blithely prosperous facade, however, there is a darker underbelly.
Beneath the neighborhood's blithely prosperous facade, however, there is a darker underbelly.
At night, the facade will create an exciting spectacle, with each of the strands becoming dynamic ribbons of light, able to change to an endless array of lighting programs.
To the north, where the facade meets Milan's skyline and becomes mostly glass, cantilevering over the street, the block breaks into a zigzag of shifting floor plates, rectangles and trapezoids, the whole building wedged onto a triangular plot.
With everything silent and still, it's easier to notice the cracks in reality's facade ,.
This is all just a facade though.
Behind the festival's shiny facade, there is an unseemly side – and beneath the azure waters, a polluted mess.
For this year's fair, she will present "Same Old, Brand New," a large-scale video installation commissioned by Art Basel that will be shown across the façade of the 118-story International Commerce Centre, the tallest building in Hong Kong.
Xingyao Cellphone City's facade is pre-touchscreen-it harks to the brick-phone era.
When I looked into them, the facade faltered, revealed a glimpse of the madness hiding behind them.
Behind the facade of many a New York City apartment building is the dissonant sound of residents complaining.
Founder-CEOs feel pressure to keep up the facade of success, even when things are actually falling apart behind the scenes.
