How To Use Skylight In A Sentence
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White snow gently fell onto the glass of the skylight, melting away.
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The room was an attic, ten feet square, lighted only by a skylight, its sole furniture a narrow iron bedstead, a chair, and a washhand-stand with one game leg.
Down and Out in Paris and London
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Floored with glass, the terrace is also a skylight shedding luminance into the building and down the stairwell.
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Through the overhead skylight they could see the night sky turn a deep black.
THREE IN ONE
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By this time, the rain was pummelling the overhead skylight, but we just laughed and raised our voices.
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There is a dramatic semi-cantilevering porch with a trellis and a skylight running along the ridge line of the roof.
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White skylight wells - set above exposed rafters - bounce and diffuse sunlight into the room below, reinforcing the open, airy feeling.
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The exterior glass walls of this sculpture hall are coated with tiny white ceramic dots (called frits) that screen city views and suffuse a supernal glow heightened by filtered daylight that streams down from deeply inset skylights ” an effect equal to the lighting of Piano at his best ” made possible when Tschumi rotated the story above this middle level of the museum.
Grading the New Acropolis
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Her reflection was eerie and the skylight threw a shocking bright light down on top of her.
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Emerging from the skylight, I turn and walk right into a pearlescent heaven of snowbells (what a thoughtfully beautiful and observant name, like all the old names) and their perfume.
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Petra returned to one of the skylights and produced a jemmy from her rucksack.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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There is an intricate Victorian tiled entrance hall with a splendid banister and staircase leading to the upper floor and which is well lit by a large skylight.
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The overhead skylight had contributed its share to the chaos.
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Engineering and sustainability for the office pavilions was designed by Arup Engineers and includes natural daylighting as well as ventilation routed through central atria with louvered skylights.
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The skylights billow like sheets flapping in the wind and dancing curtains shine green and faintly red.
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A square of light shone from the skylight.
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Above it was an office, all windows and skylights, a right-angled desk built into the wall.
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
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To the right of the entry, a preconcert foyer, the BP Hall, rises to lofty heights surrounded by Douglas fir walls eventuating in a skylight that reveals the steel armature holding up the stainless-steel facades.
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I compromised with the inevitable by having Wada make up my bed on the deck in the shelter of the cabin skylight just for'ard of the jiggermast.
CHAPTER XLIV
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High on the wall behind him was a window of small panes of frosted glass which looked like those skylights which separate a basement from the street.
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—Stowed in a warehouse with a leaky skylight is one of this city's remaining valuable assets: a U.S. Cavalry horse's hoof purportedly found on the battlefield at Little Bighorn, the site of Lt. Col.
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Through the overhead skylight they could see the night sky turn a deep black.
THREE IN ONE
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The central atrium of the High Museum of Art, designed by Richard Meier, is once again filled with light from the skylight above.
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Six stainless steel flues vent forge smoke through the corrugated iron roof which is cut away at the ridge for a skylight that runs the length of the studio.
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A train of skylights with tangerine wells sprays color into an otherwise routine hallway.
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He can look down on all of us, has side windows through which to view the world, and a skylight to the stars.
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She gripped her Beretta tightly in her hand and jumped nimbly through the skylight, hitting the catwalk with bended knees.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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By this time, the rain was pummelling the overhead skylight, but we just laughed and raised our voices.
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Even on cloudy days, a tubular skylight can provide at least as much light as a 100-watt incandescent bulb - about 1,200 lumens.
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Each electrolier is linked to a corner of the lobby skylight by a narrow rootlike strip of ornament.
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The interior of the cave, pierced by apertures giving onto the sea and by a sort of skylight open to the heavens, reflects a light of mist and water on its damp walls.
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Today was a typical Southern California day, sunny and hot, and the sun bore down on the Sports Club / LA through their dome-shaped skylighted atrium.
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Now the skylighted forecourt is filled with plainclothesmen.
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For maximum light, install tubular skylights on a south face of your roof.
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It fell on my legs and lap through the skylight, a lovely slow silver moon.
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A glazed skylight illuminated the stairwell, something Garric had never seen before; a five-armed lampholder hung from a chain for use later in the evening.
Lord of the Isles
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Youths were clambering over barbed wire fences, climbing through skylight windows and running amok in the dark.
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We battened down the engine room hatch, and the sea rose to it and over it and climbed perilously near to the cabin companionway and skylight.
The Joy Of Small-Boat Sailing
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Petra returned to one of the skylights and produced a jemmy from her rucksack.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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Needless to say, the entire project has also been verified by structural engineers, who reinforced the area around the skylight with "secondary steelwork".
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These sensors offer a great way to effortlessly control artificial lighting at window walls or in a skylighted atrium.
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A train of skylights with tangerine wells sprays color into an otherwise routine hallway.
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There are no windows in the walls, only a skylight window in the ceiling.
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My uncle had installed a skylight above my bed for my birthday last year.
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cella" of the Parthenon was lighted, in view of the danger, in case of open skylights, of damage to the holy image by wind and rain.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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The sunlight showed, too, that the fissure was the skylight of a cave which opened out on the ravine.
Tropic Days
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The most impactful experiences involved standing beneath your skylight which we all know by now is a vortex.
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Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge, Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger.
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A skylight in the domed roof spilled silver light over a sword suspended in mid air.
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Natural light floods the museum through its jigsaw-shaped holes and skylights. A walkway and a cube-shaped gallery float above the lobby.
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Seal flashing around roof stacks and vents, between roof valley flashing and shingles, and around roof additions and skylights.
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Really, it's not unlike all those millions of Americans huddling around their kitchen tables right now trying to figure out their own budgets .. except instead of a kitchen table it will be convened at one that seats 16 people and is made of polished wood and instead of an actual kitchen they'll be flanked by the ornate false skylight and triglyph molding of the Roosevelt room.
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Skylights threw wells of illumination down through the still air into the hall, spotlighting the black and white tiled floor.
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A circular tower with a domed skylight exemplifies the surprising styling characteristic of contemporary design.
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Scaffolding, useful if you're installing a large skylight, can be rented from tool supply companies.
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It was an exquisite room, possibly thirty-five by sixty and rising to a lofty trussed ceiling where a warm golden light was diffused from a skylight of yellow glass.
CHAPTER XV
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The high ceiling and the upper walls were plastered and whitewashed, a brilliant white in the illumination from skylights.
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I made storm shields for the big cabin windows and skylights.
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A series of catwalks criss-crossed above him, illuminated by a large skylight.
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Flexible spaces for work, rest, and play are illuminated by skylights and deftly placed windows.
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Within it are staircases and skylights that connect the main auditorium with underground classrooms, and a lookout tower which houses the museum.
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The brilliant lights of the buildings outside shone in through the skylight, casting a bright square of light on the floor.
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The full bale's width of insulation from the ground to the skylight allows us to burn barely two cords of wood a year for all our cooking and heating needs.
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French doors and skylights brighten the space and make it feel bigger.
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Would-be burglars climbed on to the flat roof of the church and unscrewed the plastic skylight cover.
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He sniffed down the forecastle hatch, sniffed into the galley where two Chinese cooks jabbered unintelligibly to him, sniffed down the cabin companionway, sniffed down the engine-room skylight and for the first time knew gasoline and engine oil; but sniff as he would, wherever he ran, no scent did he catch of Skipper.
CHAPTER XX
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Steel-framed transparent glass above the tub is part of a skylight cruciform that runs the entire length and width of the third floor.
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The kit offers an assortment of cardboard sheets printed with the materials of siding, roofing, doors, windows and skylights.
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There were many skylights in our roof which happily let the rain through on the odd occasion.
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The rowdy crowd jumped up and down on the roof to smash the skylight window.
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The company manufactures and installs wall panels, canopies, glass skylights, and walkways.
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Lightning consist of just two lights: 1 . MR area spot light , 2 . skylight.
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Shut and lock windows, doors and skylights and don't leave valuables on display.
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The possible revival of this practice was revealed when Lord Freud, the minister for welfare reform, was challenged by the Labour peer Lord Foulkes, who wanted to know whether a boxroom with a skylight that did not open would be considered a bedroom.
Windows could be boarded up as tenants try to avoid benefits penalties
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A pair of glass pendants illuminates the snack-bar island without blocking views through the kitchen window - which, along with a skylight, keeps the workspace bright.
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After you've cut around the opening, pry the roofing materials loose with a crowbar and hammer; save asphalt shingles to use for patching around the skylight.
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Haruyama's team concluded that the most likely explanation is that the hole that they discovered is a "skylight" – a location where the roof of a lava tube collapsed, either when the lava filling the tube flowed away, or later in the moon's history due to an impact, moonquake, or tidal forces from the Earth.
Kaguya Discovers a Lava Tube on the Moon | Universe Today
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The kitchen is sunken below the open-concept living and dining rooms, which are bathed in sun from a skylight.
Globe and Mail
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An interior staircase is topped by a cupola with skylights.
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Shimmering torrents of sunlight poured through glass skylights in the ceiling.
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Methodically daubing the treacly floor paint all over the architect's white and grey glaze walls, the waffle-textured bamboo wallpaper, the skylights, the portholes, the glass, bricks and the panora-fenestrals.
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In this walking tour (embedded video below), Stewart shows off some of the shinier features of the new space — the curtain-on-rails set-up, skylights, and a badly needed HVAC system.
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Window film can be especially helpful in solariums or rooms with skylights.
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The interior is further illuminated by slatted or fretted skylights while lower down, translucent canopies act as light diffusors.
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Great Room, "for clerical employees that is distinguished by an arboreal canopy created by a grid of 'dendriform' columns interspersed skylights.
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The company manufactures and installs wall panels, canopies, glass skylights, and walkways.
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Mainly introduce the modeling methods of sunlight and skylight and current works on outdoor scene rendering.
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The sprawling flat features eight-foot-wide hallways, gargantuan skylights and impeccable plaster detail, all created for a long-gone shopkeeper downstairs and his ne'er-do-well brother.
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Above a tea light candelabra is a skylight ideal for stargazing.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he is most jazzed by the atmospheric breakfast parlor, a domed lair that's dramatically lit by concealed skylights and a stained-glass oculus.
The Lived-In Look
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Six stainless steel flues vent forge smoke through the corrugated iron roof which is cut away at the ridge for a skylight that runs the length of the studio.
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Thus the three-story administration building features a half-acre Great Workroom for clerical employees that is distinguished by an arboreal canopy created by a grid of "dendriform" columns and interspersed skylights.
Wright's House of Wax
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We have seen barasingha deer penned up between shock-absorbing bales of hay seriously try to jump straight up through a roof skylight nine feet from the floor.
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The new skylighted third floor contains the living room and kitchen, where the best views are.
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The new skylighted third floor contains the living room and kitchen, where the best views are.
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Among the panelled walls, stained glass skylights and beetling, tuxedoed waiters you will see tributes to famous literary and political regulars.
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The skylight will provide good illumination from above.
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As for serious theatre, it is impossible to be more serious than doing a David Hare play, as Les did, appearing in Skylight in Newbury, or touring Helsinki in the Finnish play Cherished Disappointments In Love with Janet Suzman.
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Today was a typical Southern California day, sunny and hot, and the sun bore down on the Sports Club / LA through their dome-shaped skylighted atrium.
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But, here, amazingly, Wolf, we still have power, our cell phones still working, although we must say, on the skylight of what I would call the colonnade, they have been crashing within the last half-hour.
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Sadly I had neglected to properly shut the skylight, the gales had forced it wide open, and the torrential downpour had torrentially downpoured into my room for 4 hours.
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The arresting features of the building as visitors arrive are the new entrance, a new grand stairwell and the development of a central atrium with skylight.
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Inserted as a tympanum into the skylight of the rear gallery, Red Brace involved LED ‘beams’ that gave the illusion of floating and moving up and down in space.
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Three corpses were stretched on the afterpart of the deck near the wheelhouse -- which had been wrenched away, along with the binnacle and bulwarks, and the cabin skylight, while the hull was full of water and kept afloat only by the buoyant nature of the cargo, although they could not discover what that was, as it was completely submerged.
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The roof above is concrete struts with glass tiled pavement slabs forming hundreds of mini-skylights that let in a certain amount of greyish London light…
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If the problem is occurring at a skylight, a single channel may solve it.
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The bed itself was positioned beneath a transparent skylight.
WHERE THE HEART IS
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Even the skylight in the ceiling did little to dispel the creepiness the room seemed to ooze.
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I remember being badly scratched and bitten by a coot which I had rescued one autumn night after it had dropped through a skylight of a house in Yarmouth, mistaking the glass for water.
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Then, in a long, airy upper room lit by skylights, the hand-fashioned blades were sandpapered smooth by women in long skirts, with spats over their heeled shoes.
Wildwood
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Here, the railing separates from the wall creating a hollow space with ample daylight filtering in through a skylight directly above.
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A skylight can be an efficient and desirable source of passive solar heating, assuming that you need the heat.
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The sun streamed through the dust caked on the skylight giving a gray green cast to the empty room.
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Check the flashings-the metal pieces used to waterproof interruptions in the roof plane such as pipes, chimneys and skylights.
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The spatial sequence is crowned by the parallel skylight bars which diffuse a soft luminance into the gallery spaces.
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill/John Blaustein An almond-shaped skylight or "oculus" is at the top of the building, through which sunlight shines in different patterns throughout the day.
Inside Oakland's Cathedral of Christ the Light
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Well, you must understand that this room was low, scarcely higher than the cabin of a fore-and-after, with no skylights to it, or wind-sail, or port-hole that would open.
Springhaven
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Inside, looking up the spiral ramp at the wonderful, globed ceiling skylight
PrairieMod In San Francisco: Day 3
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So I lay, and wondered why light Came not, and watched the twilight And the glimmer of the skylight, That shot across the deck; And the binnacle pale and steady, And the dull glimpse of the dead-eye, And the sparks in fiery eddy, That whirled from the chimney neck: In our jovial floating prison There was sleep from fore to mizen, And never a star had risen The hazy sky to speck.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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The skylight will provide good illumination from above.
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The center of the Institute for International Economics features a three-story atrium with a skylight serving up natural light to all the facing offices.
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Rain starts thrumming into the canal and onto the skylight outside my room.
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Joel slummed inside the insidious bowels of some Chinese gadget sweatshops, scheduled a voyage on the world's largest cruise liner and looked at some faux skylights capable of programmable lighting.
Boing Boing
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For homes or businesses that require constant illumination, tubular skylights present a cost-saving option.
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Where the ramps angle, holes are created that allow light to pass through the house from a skylight that matches the shape, dimension, and positioning of the ramp doglegs.
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White skylight wells - set above exposed rafters - bounce and diffuse sunlight into the room below, reinforcing the open, airy feeling.
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Only last year teenage star Bizni Slott, who won "Balkan Fame Pimp 2008" by eating her own face, floated out of a skylight after a hard night's partying and was shot down by a Bulgarian MiG-29 fighter, a few miles north of Plovdiv.
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Beams spanning the roof to shoring towers on either side were located slightly offset from roof arches, which align with skylight mullions.
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The room was huge, and dust gently wafted down from skylights and settled on the objects in the room.
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A high-pitched roof and a large skylight guaranteed ventilation and light.
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Long slotted skylights and openings in the second floor introduce shafts of natural light.
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These sensors offer a great way to effortlessly control artificial lighting at window walls or in a skylighted atrium.
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A glass bottomed runnel, which collects water during the short and torrential rains, doubles as a skylight over a glass shower and over the guest room below.
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Tucked in an ell was a small kitchen with a charming skylight and a short hallway leading to two small bedrooms.
Priceless
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There was a large round skylight in the ceiling, and a loft.
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The walls were painted, the floors carpeted, the skylights covered with matching fabric, and the central ceiling made into a dynamic starburst of tricolored panels of glass called Afro Kaleidoscope.
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Even on cloudy days, a tubular skylight can provide at least as much light as a 100-watt incandescent bulb - about 1,200 lumens.
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The sloped skylight is supported by laminated-glass structural ribs and is strong enough to support the weight of cleaning crews.
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The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth.
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So we have lots glazing with clearstory windows, skylights, and solatubes.
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He sniffed down the forecastle hatch, sniffed into the galley where two Chinese cooks jabbered unintelligibly to him, sniffed down the cabin companionway, sniffed down the engine-room skylight and for the first time knew gasoline and engine oil; but sniff as he would, wherever he ran, no scent did he catch of Skipper.
CHAPTER XX
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The room was lit by cylindrical skylights, each placed above an alcove of unplastered brickwork with recessed pointing.
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$1,500 tax credit include wood-burning stoves, nonsolar water heaters, air conditioning and heating units, insulation, energy-efficient windows, doors and skylights.
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Bridged in aluminum grating, they slice through each level and align with skylights in the roof.
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Its walls were surmounted by a battlemented parapet; but the gray lead roofs were quite visible behind it, with their gutters, laps, rolls, and skylights, together with incised letterings and shoe-patterns cut by idlers thereon.
The Woodlanders
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But sit here on the skylight till I tell you, Tom, where the 'poortith' comes in.
As We Sweep Through The Deep
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Four small windows and a skylight brighten the room, which is 24 feet across.
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Above a tea light candelabra is a skylight ideal for stargazing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Galleries were generally lit by skylights, although by the later nineteenth century many commercial art galleries were using gaslight in order to stay open after dark.
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In addition, installation of skylights, low flush toilets, high efficiency faucets, eco friendly furniture, bamboo flooring, green label carpeting, no VOC paint, recycled doors and energy-star appliances.
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The ground level beneath this is enclosed by series of pyramidal glazed skylights that allow daylight to filter through the main foyer.
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The sprawling flat features eight-foot-wide hallways, gargantuan skylights and impeccable plaster detail, all created for a long-gone shopkeeper downstairs and his ne'er-do-well brother.
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The open living and dining room, which has a fireplace and a skylight, is painted with light, tricolored stripes.
Hamptons Home Brings Outside In
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They ooh and aah over every aspect of the house—the skylight over the stairs, the fleur-de-lis wallpaper in the back upstairs bathroom, even the finished attic I use as my bedroom—but they always find some flaw, something to complain about.
The Kitchen Daughter
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It was evident that if the frapping gave way the hawser would be sure to jump clear of the bit heads and fly back with great force against the gallery and the engine room skylight.
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Check that the attic space is clear of obstructions above where you wish to locate the skylight.
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Columns of cast iron doubled as drainpipes and supports for the ceiling, which had domed skylights.
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But there were any number of the chimneylike skylights and odd towers sprouting from the top of the castle.
The Wizard Of Karres
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Sixty-six pyramidal skylights were supposed to fill the galleries with sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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The office sits to the right of the front door and a beautifully unfussy skylight illuminates broad stairs leading to the bedrooms, bathroom and first-floor sitting room.
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The high ceiling and the upper walls were plastered and whitewashed, a brilliant white in the illumination from skylights.
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A bright breakfast room adjoins the kitchen; it has a large skylight and leads to the fully plumbed utility room and sunroom.
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Lily shuffled along in search of her wallet, but the dim lighting that was provided by the dusty skylights above the bookracks wasn't of much help.
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The large hall will have a pitched natural slate roof incorporating wind-powered ventilation fans and skylights.
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An overhead skylight provides natural light for studying wine colour.
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You don't normally need permission to reroof your house or add roof lights, skylights or solar panels.
Times, Sunday Times
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We battened down the engine-room hatch, and the sea rose to it and over it and climbed perilously near to the cabin companion-way and skylight.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING
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The bed itself was positioned beneath a transparent skylight.
WHERE THE HEART IS
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A huge three-story mall abuts the old Menger Hotel, with high skylights and gleaming tile floors.
