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A History of the County of Somerset
… Ichthyosaurs, it may be mentioned, have very large heads, short necks, paddles composed of a number of polygonal bones … to form a pavement, and the bodies of the vertebr very short, deeply cupped, and quite separate from the arches …
Old and New London
… at times a sound understanding till within a very short period of his decease, occasionally attending the Privy … of Mrs. Miller in Bond Street. Letitia Pilkington for a short time kept here a pamphlet and print shop. At the sign … honest to the backbone, and plain speaking. He carried a short, thick shillelagh, and now and then took his quid. A …
Survey of London
… the hall, 27 feet wide and 23 feet 6 inches deep, with a short flight of steps rising to an ante, serving a …
Survey of London
… ever since. The house had been built in 17756 for the short-lived Savoir Vivre Club (see page 441). After the …
Survey of London
… to the coffee-room: an east doorframe gives entrance to a short corridor leading north to the morning-room and south to …
Survey of London
… flanked by the porter's lobby and a waiting-room, with a short flight of steps rising into the 'north colonnade', or … storey being of smooth-faced ashlar, bounded by long-and-short chamfered quoins, underlined by a pedestal-course, and … channel-jointed in the manner of masonry. On the south, a short flight of steps ascends, under a barrel-vaulted …
Survey of London
… now used as a restaurant. From the vestibule a short corridor branches east to the restaurant, an oblong …
Survey of London
… ground-storey window. Each storey is bounded by long-and-short chamfered quoins, and a plain pedestal-course links the … rusticated masonry, with vermiculated long-and-short stones dressing the straight-headed windows and forming … it is divided into three compartmentsshort, long, and short, the east compartment prolonged by a shallow baylinked …