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Balustrade in sentence

35 examples of Balustrade in a sentence

So I flew to Berlin, but before I addressed the crowds from the balustrade of Schoeneberg's Town Hall, I received a call from Mikhail Gorbachev.
The gallery was crowded with smartly-dressed women who leaned over the balustrade and tried not to miss a single word of what was being said below.
Having found a vacant place at the balustrade, Levin leant over and began to look and listen.
Levin, leaning over the balustrade, looked on and listened.
Instead of going back to the drawing-room, whence came the sound of voices, he stopped on the verandah and leaning on the balustrade gazed at the sky.
Here behind the balustrade of a balcony was a young man in a short cloak, holding in his arms a young girl in a white dress wearing an alms-bag at her belt; or there were nameless portraits of English ladies with fair curls, who looked at you from under their round straw hats with their large clear eyes.
She had a board with a balustrade fixed against her window to hold the pots.
The outside of the pulpit's balustrade was covered in green foliage which continued down to the column supporting it, little angels could be seen among the leaves, some of them lively and some of them still.
It certainly would have been impossible for the priest to take a full step back from the balustrade, and, although there was no decoration on it, the top of the pulpit curved in exceptionally low so that a man of average height would not be able stand upright and would have to remain bent forward over the balustrade.
But there had been no mistake, the priest seemed rather to check that the lamp was lit and turned it a little higher, then he slowly turned to face the front and leant down on the balustrade gripping its angular rail with both hands.
"You are Josef K.," said the priest, and raised his hand from the balustrade to make a gesture whose meaning was unclear.
The priest lowered his head down to the balustrade, only now did the roof over the pulpit seem to press him down.
Therese, leaning over the balustrade, observed the quay.
He paused for an instant, and then said abruptly--'Did it ever strike you, on such a morning as this, that drowning would be happiness and peace?''God bless me, no!' replied Mr. Pickwick, edging a little from the balustrade, as the possibility of the dismal man's tipping him over, by way of experiment, occurred to him rather forcibly.
She closed the door after her, took the duke by the hand, and after a few experimental steps, grasped a balustrade, put her foot upon the bottom step, and began to ascend the staircase.
Bowing her curly head she pressed her forehead against a cold watering-can that stood on the balustrade, and both her beautiful hands, with the rings he knew so well, were holding the can.
The hall lamp was now lit, and it amused her to look over the balustrade and watch the servants passing backwards and forwards.
He had, accordingly, hoisted himself, during the first verses of the prologue, with the aid of the pillars of the reserve gallery, to the cornice which ran round the balustrade at its lower edge; and there he had seated himself, soliciting the attention and the pity of the multitude, with his rags and a hideous sore which covered his right arm.
He approached him and addressed him, shaking his arm slightly; for the good man was leaning on the balustrade and dozing a little.
And leaning over the balustrade of the balcony, he began to shout, "Little one!"
The crescent of the moon, in her flight upward from the horizon, had paused at the moment, on the summit of the light hand tower, and seemed to have perched itself, like a luminous bird, on the edge of the balustrade, cut out in black trefoils.
In one of these moments he suddenly beheld the long window on the balcony, whose stone balustrade projected above his head, open mysteriously.
He took advantage of their fright, and while they were fixing a superstitious glance on the club which had fallen fromheaven, and while they were putting out the eyes of the stone saints on the front with a discharge of arrows and buckshot, Quasimodo was silently piling up plaster, stones, and rough blocks of stone, even the sacks of tools belonging to the masons, on the edge of the balustrade from which the beam had already been hurled.
Independently of the projectiles which he had piled upon the balustrade, he had collected a heap of stones on the platform itself.
His huge gnome's head bent over the balustrade, then an enormous stone fell, then another, then another.
At this moment of anguish, he noticed, a little lower down than the balustrade whence he was crushing the thieves, two long stone gutters which discharged immediately over the great door; the internal orifice of these gutters terminated on the pavement of the platform.
In an instant the ladder was raised, and propped against the balustrade of the lower gallery, above one of the lateral doors.
Quasimodo, impassive, with both elbows propped on the balustrade, looked on.
There is an openwork balustrade which surrounds the platform of the bell tower.
Outside the balustrade of the tower, directly under the point where the priest had paused, there was one of those fantastically carved stone gutters with which Gothic edifices bristle, and, in a crevice of that gutter, two pretty wallflowers in blossom, shaken out and vivified, as it were, by the breath of air, made frolicsome salutations to each other.