1 The walls on either side were of bronze from end to end, and the cornice was of blue enamel.
2 I wandered, on a moonlight night, through the grass-grown enclosure within: here I stumbled over a marble hearth, and there over a fallen fragment of cornice.
3 One store-building had a patchy galvanized iron cornice; the building beside it was crowned with battlements and pyramids of brick capped with blocks of red sandstone.
4 That one imagines that he owns the Pont-Neuf, and he prevents people from walking on the cornice outside the parapet; that other has a mania for pulling person's ears; etc.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAY... 5 Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.
6 It was a broad panelled staircase, with massive balustrades of some dark wood; cornices above the doors, ornamented with carved fruit and flowers; and broad seats in the windows.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 7 Although they were still at work on the cornices outside and were painting on the ground floor, upstairs almost all the rooms were finished.
8 The rooms upstairs had great high wooden chimney-pieces and large doors, with panelled walls and cornices to the ceiling; which, although they were black with neglect and dust, were ornamented in various ways.
9 Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated the barricade and wounded several men.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST