Presently it brought me to stone uprights, with an
unroofed lodge beside them, and coats of arms upon the top.
Dismantled houses here and there appeared, tottering to the earth, propped up by fragments of others that had fallen down,
unroofed, windowless, blackened, desolate, but yet inhabited.
It was a perfect building two hundred and fifty years ago, when a shell dropped into the Venetian magazine stored here, and the explosion which followed wrecked and
unroofed it.
In the theaters, therefore, at first generally square-built or octagonal, the stage projected from the rear wall well toward the center of an
unroofed pit (the present-day 'orchestra'), where, still on three sides of the stage, the common people, admitted for sixpence or less, stood and jostled each other, either going home when it rained or staying and getting wet as the degree of their interest in the play might determine.
This heap, made in the winter of '46-7 and estimated to contain ten thousand tons, was finally covered with hay and boards; and though it was
unroofed the following July, and a part of it carried off, the rest remaining exposed to the sun, it stood over that summer and the next winter, and was not quite melted till September, 1848.
Though
unroofed by any glass or gilt plaster, the guests were nearly all under a delicate and irregular roof of leaves; for the ornamental trees stood so thick around and among the tables as to give something of the dimness and the dazzle of a small orchard.
The beast was destroyed by being shot from a corner of the building which was
unroofed. They commit also at these times great ravages among cattle and horses.
He added that the preparation of the Syrian pavilion has been finished while the handing of the pavilions at the roofed and
unroofed spaces has started to allow the participants to start preparation of their pavilions completely and to bring their goods via the private gates.
|The flagpole in 1912, with the original
unroofed 'Spion Kop' stand in the foreground
Anfield stadium, flag pole corner- Walton Breck Road and Kemlyn Road, with the original
unroofed 'Spion Kop' stand in foreground.
But by 1837, archives refer to Borg as deserted with its buildings
unroofed and abandoned.
