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    rotunda


    1. rotunda with a brilliant crystal chandelier illuminating the way


    2. People inside pointed at the high-domed ceiling in the rotunda, gesticulating excitedly


    3. Sandwiches and a thermos of coffee tasted great on a hired rowboat on the Serpentine, having padlocked the wheelchair to the railings, then an ‘oom pah pah’ brass band in the rotunda with not a microphone or amplifier in sight, rounded off a perfect afternoon


    4. They rested for a few minutes watching the fish, before strolling between manicured lawns and flower beds to the shade of the rotunda, where they sat and sipped from cans of soft-drink


    5. It was estimated that 50,000 people honored him as he lay in the rotunda


    6. The rotunda of Wisconsin’s Capitol has a bust of Fighting Bob


    7. lounge and used one of the elevators housed in the central shaft of the rotunda


    8. From there they followed a passageway lined with numerous doors that led to a second, smaller rotunda


    9. Many in her party whispered that she was a traitor to the party, but the Majority Leader from Pennsylvania explained at a press conference in the Rotunda that she agreed with the President that the President‘s judgment had to be trusted in this time of crisis so that the American government could be restored


    10. Priya set foot on the Main Promenade Deck, on Level 9, twelve minutes later, coming out of one of the elevator shafts of the central rotunda of the deck

    11. While everything was still dark on that level, a number of steel hatches with opening hand wheels lined the outer wall of the rotunda, something that raised Tina’s hopes at once


    12. Behind the platform was a circular rotunda with a canopy of brightly painted scenes from the bible and the life of Jesus


    13. Inside the rotunda, stood a silk-embroidered linen tablecloth-covered altar, and to the left of the altar was a door to the back section of the church where the clergymen lived


    14. She meandered over in front of the Rotunda and looked up at the hovering Crucifix


    15. I will have you start cleaning the rotunda floor first,” he said, pointing her to the back


    16. “Great Hate?” In a single stride Her Colossus took her to the Capital Arch, where the blast-proof, glass enclosed, petrified Arch of love was on permanent display in the rotunda of the Arch of LAW


    17. “Where is it,” HipHope urgently looked about the exitless rotunda in which she was discovering herself


    18. " Anthony gestures toward two russet leather chairs in the intimate rotunda


    19. After I get changed, I head into the rotunda in his room and look out the window


    20. His eyes flash and he storms out of the rotunda, slamming his fist into the doorframe as he exits

    21. An RCMP officer escorted Sam across the rotunda to the elevator and to the third-floor


    22. was diff erent in that the foyer, or rotunda as it was called, spanned


    23. and left with doors opening onto the rotunda


    24. The emperor was anxious to see that famous temple of the Rotunda, called in ancient times the temple 'of all the gods,' but now-a-days, by a better nomenclature, 'of all the saints,' which is the best preserved building of all those of pagan construction in Rome, and the one which best sustains the reputation of mighty works and magnificence of its founders


    25. First he proposed a broken column with some drapery, next a pyramid, then a Temple of Vesta, a sort of rotunda, or else a "mass of ruins


    26. The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he (Bloom) was his (the clown's) papa


    27. There were no stained glass windows here, but the native stone of the natural cavern had been smoothed and polished to form a perfectly circular rotunda, then carved with scenes from Saint Kohdy’s life


    28. He found it crammed; for this small space was the point where all those who were going to supper in the Rotunda crossed those who were returning from taking a glass of champagne


    29. A shadow in a long black cloak and a soft black felt hat passed along the pavement between the Rotunda and the carriages, examined the barouche carefully, went up to the horses and the coachman and then moved away without saying a word, The magistrate afterward believed that this shadow was that of the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny; but I do not agree, seeing that that evening, as every evening, the Vicomte de Chagny was wearing a tall hat, which hat, besides, was subsequently found


    30. "And nevertheless your carriage is still outside the Rotunda awaiting

    31. Leading with my gun, I rounded corners until I was in sight of the main rotunda


    32. The voices echoed out of the huge dome of the main rotunda


    33. Voices rang out ahead in the rotunda


    34. With wondrous timing, the calliope downstairs in the rotunda started up, running the carousel


    35. Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed


    36. This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through


    37. more than one street corner—for they are streets—presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Platriere, a sort of Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far as the Seine, where it terminates in a Y; secondly, on his right, the curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, complicated, almost at its inception, with a sort of fork, and proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and lastly, the blind alley of a passage of the Rue des Jeuneurs, without counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be safe


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    "rotunda" definitions

    a building having a circular plan and a dome


    a large circular room