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Usage examples of facade.

The Angel had manifested a human face for the wondercruise: an Apollonian facade with bronzed skin, a long Roman nose, tight brass ringlets with bronze highlights.

Gabin and loped off just before the Besas pocked and the flamethrower blackened the facade of the prison.

Closed, it was a striking but simple, unpretentious piece with a flat, unembellished facade crafted from the honeytoned woods favored by Biedermeier artisans.

The stark contrast with the fear-haunted, angry, sensitive, and hurt Bradbury revealed in his later writings suggests a deliberate early facade.

It is a great rectangular structure of bricks 165 feet long and 84 broad, the external walls of which were originally ornamented by deep polygonal grooves, resembling those which score the facade of Chaldaean buildings, but the Nagadeh tomjb has a second brick wall which fills up all the hollows left in the first one, and thus hides the primitive decoration of the monument.

An illuminated clockface mounted on the facade of a great banking establishment showed an hour and a half until midnight.

All the Castles built between 1921 and 1925 in Wichita, Omaha, and Kansas City were constructed from cement blocks on an identical ten-by-fifteen-foot floor plan, with the same crenellated facade and whitewashed exterior.

Featuring a Tudor facade with South-of-France striped awnings, the restaurant was the happy marriage of two stores with upper lofts merged into a Dickensian fantasy.

The facade of foppishness slipped, and the ruler of Zhentil Keep withdrew the handkerchief from his face.

Nestled on the Guadalupe River, the Gristmill Restaurant was built on the remains of the old Gruene cotton gin, and the facade could have been a set in a classic spaghetti Western.

They were walking slowly across the forecourt now, between the stunted remains of its stout columns towards the facade of the hypostyle hall.

KGB office in Khabarovsk was a ragged hole in the grey facades along Komsomolskaya Square.

The facade of enmity between Kerestyn and Koli had fooled all but a clever few.

He even says that all the village knew of my journeys to the tomb, and that I was often watched as I slept in the bower outside the grim facade, my half-open eyes fixed on the crevice that leads to the interior.

And now, the following morning, which though grey, hinted at sunlight to come, he swung Micawber across the halfmoon of gravel in front of its facade, and confirmed the accuracy of the Rev.