What is "flying buttresses"

Usage examples of "flying buttresses".

Gigantic trees of an unfamiliar species, with subsidiary trunks like flying buttresses, soared up several hundred ells high.

The fibres stretched taut and glued themselves solidly to a third line, its silk made from the angles of seven flying buttresses to a cathedral roof.

At first Ryld thought the place was whole and intact, but as he studied it, he realized that the tower-tops were holed and that more than one of the flying buttresses linking the outlying towers to the main body of the keep had collapsed with the years.

The fibres stretched taut and glued themselves solidly to a third line, its silk made from the angles of seven flying buttresses to a cathe­.

And the rubble blasted out or shaken free of the stack was still falling, bringing down a tangle of flying buttresses from lower levels, more walkways, various ramps and man-made staging areas, all going down in a mighty roiling of dust and a rumble like thunder onto the scree slopes at the foot of the stack.

This gate was massive, built of stone and timbers, with flying buttresses to support its great height.

This gate was massive,built of stone and timbers, with flying buttresses to supportits great height.

Especially in the towers and turrets and flying buttresses of their crowns, which looked for all the world like .

Its three flying buttresses splayed out behind, with one aimed directly at the ground, a gathering of drum and sticks that had no apparent purpose.

On its height overlooking the sea, the Castle of Glass formed a soaring pile of blazing amethyst and topaz, braced with spangled flying buttresses and crowned by filigreed spires beaconed with yellow stars.

And from the culmination of this crag thrust a fortress topped with clusters of spired towers, belfries, conical turret roofs, toothed battlements, and flying buttresses, its grim walls pierced by narrow slots with pointed arches.

He repainted the flying buttresses so that they tangled with each other, the farthest arches overlapping the nearest.

It was made of stone and steel, with flying buttresses, and a network of guy wires.

Coming up, he'd used exterior causeways, covered ledges, and dizzy bridges suspended from the underside of various flying buttresses.

They moved quietly on, taking advantage of all available cover and shadow until they came to a still deeper shadow caused by two flying buttresses supporting the wall of the ancient church.