cornice
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Four of the dogs were rescued after they fell through the cornice, but Aggie could not be found after landing in Coire Toll Mhor, a large hollow below the summit.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
When auditors came to search Freymond’s desk, the story took a farcical turn: Freymond had tried to dispose of the incriminating papers by stashing them outside his office window, on the cornice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
In the most superficial way, the addition is a contextual match for the main house—it is white, and it is a similar height, with a cornice and a matching parapet.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
As your eyes adjust in the dark, unlit details fade in: a coat of aluminum paint on the cornice, a staircase through the curtain, a tracing of mortar among stones in the foundation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
Out of the sky he drops to a cornice beam with mortal voice telling me not to weep.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Team leader Iain Nesbitt said the incident highlighted the risks posed by cornices.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Seeking the summit, Steidl saw snow cornices, rocks and a sharp drop-off.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
In an image from Paris, ornate cornices are barely visible above rows of filing cabinets and stacks of paper; in Vienna, gilded, chandelier-lit rooms have empty bookshelves and bare curtain rods.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
Columns were piled on pilasters, rusticated plinths groaned under heaving cornices and every junction was elaborated with a twiddly moulding.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017
As a result, architects relied on old and dangerous habits, such as substituting wood for stone and decorating their buildings with wooden awnings, cupolas, and cornices.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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Within Chinatown’s gridlike layout, you can spot a few examples of the low-rise Italianate brick or white stucco and corniced buildings that predate a devastating fire in 1900.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020
He had one day of seclusion with his family in the big, ornately corniced house of Mrs. David Wallace, his mother-in-law.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The seat of Uniforce is Fontainebleau, the carved and corniced residence of French kings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The program is not for the faint of heart, as the terrain is dramatic and moderately technical, often requiring the guide to short-rope guests on the rocky outcrops and corniced sections.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We had to haul the sledge up and over each knife-edged or fantastically corniced top, then slide her down, and up over the next one: for they never seemed to run parallel to our course.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Running along the edge, where the ceiling meets the walls is block cornicing, which Phramaha Prasert said was so that the temple remained "sympathetic to its Edinburgh location".
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2022
Somewhere, someone is running a judgemental finger along your cornicing.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2018
Gaston Hall itself, with its elaborately painted walls, stained glass windows and wood cornicing is named after William Gaston, the college’s first student, who owned numerous slaves but also supported the abolition of slavery.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 1, 2016
Yanique makes it clear from the beginning that she is not interested in the framing and cornicing of realism.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 11, 2014
The walls and ceilings were peppermint, and here and there, you’d see a bit of fishing net, or a rotted piece from a boat stuck up high near the cornicing.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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