Domes
[dəumz]
Examples
- It is as knobby with countless little domes as a prison door is with bolt-heads. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Eva joyously pointed out the various spires, domes, and way-marks, by which she recognized her native city. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- On our left were the granite-ribbed domes of old Spain. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And sure enough, afloat on the placid sea a league away, lay a great city, with its towers and domes and steeples drowsing in a golden mist of sunset. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Still the same lofty domes and minarets towered above the verdurous walls, where Constantine had died, and the Turk had entered the city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And now, while the distant domes and spires of New Orleans rise to our view, there is yet time for an introduction to Miss Ophelia. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Eva