Temporary framework for building

Usage examples of scaffolding.

There was a semblance of order, with decks, a sterncastle, and a single small mast, but the whole thing was cloaked in jury-rigged scaffolding that obscured details.

Such elements lay there behind a substantial barrier of conventional stage machinery and elocutionary scaffolding.

Michael Angelo did not content himself with knowing only the main features of architecture, but wished also to know about everything that could be useful in any way in that profession, such as ties, platforms, scaffolding, and such like, he knew as much of these things as those who profess nothing else, which was exemplified in the time of Julius II.

I imparted to it the will to rise from its scaffolding as I had seen Fal Sivas cause it to do and then to settle down again in its place.

Whether or not Fal Sivas had entered the room before the ship came to rest again upon its scaffolding, I did not know.

The tower of spiderweb scaffoldings and elevator banks was like an exoskeleton within which were arranged like boxes of chocolates, premade apartments of different sizes into which people moved as their economic status evolved.

At present they were just shells of peripheral bamboo scaffoldings soaring skyward, hundreds of Chinese laborers swarming them.

It was cupped in bamboo scaffoldings, in the beginnings of gardens, and in the thin marsh of the valley basin.

On the right side of the open space were some narrow scaffoldings, made of wood and so lofty that they could be seen over the top of the wall.

These scaffoldings are not always kept at that place, but they are specially made for these feasts.

The captains who had their stations inside the city, since the soldiers could not be drawn up on the flat roofs of the houses, put up scaffoldings across the mouths of the streets to hold the troops, in such a way that all were full, both outside and in.

Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile?

Did he use the ladders and the scaffoldings of the slaters to get from roof to roof, from inclosure to inclosure, from compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, then the buildings of the Cour Saint Louis, the encircling wall, and from thence to the ruin on the Rue du Roi de Sicile?

The old weapons storage chambers were littered with equipment, and scaffoldings had been set up along the sixty-meter inboard bulkhead, but there was no one to put them to use.

Young Joanne herself walked the vast avenues of Ghezirah, the island city which lies at the centre of all the Ten Thousand and One Worlds, but which grows in much the same way as Pavo’s crystal scaffoldings but on an inconceivable scale.