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Usage examples of buttresses.

He went behind one of the buttresses and emerged with an armload of white-bleached sticks.

Michele was a majestic Gothic cathedral of spires and buttresses looming on a hill and yearning toward the sky.

Down came towers, spires, pillars, buttresses, and roof in a thundering avalanche to hesitate above the yawning crater of the floor in a tangled, precarious equilibrium.

He came out on a hillside with the stratum of limestone forming buttresses across it, over which grew the stunted desiccated brush and wiry 407 elephant grass.

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center towered above the highway on concrete buttresses, like a hydroelectric project accidently constructed in the wrong place, appallingly large.

As soon as they got past the buttresses of the bridge they scrambled up on to the eastern bank, which even in winter was covered with a mixture of bamboo, ivy, and reeds.

High up on the shoulder, we rounded a bend and, suddenly, we were out on the lip of the world, looking down into a yawning chasm with the pale glimmer of cliffs and buttresses rising sheer on the far side.

The way he said it conjured a picture in my mind of elephants backed up against sheer buttresses of rock and the ring of hunters closing in.

There was water in the bottom, actual running water that flowed in a channel that was deep in shade and twisted like a tiny canyon among cliffs and buttresses, and there were sudden expansive chambers that were flat and full of the debris of lush growth.

As clouds crowded past the sun, the great forest-spanning buttresses of light were dissolving.

Against the morning sky, six spires of stone rose up, flying buttresses bereft of the walls they had supported, stretching like the bony fingers of a skeleton hand into the whiteness of the air.

She saw towers mounting spire on shattered spire, arch and corbel and crenelations as fine as hand-tooled miniatures, with woven trellises of bare branches, and above it all, the broken, arching ribs of the buttresses that were all that remained of the Palace.

Archways, circular buttresses, and a smorgasbord of Victorian indulgence that would have dazed the Queen herself.