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Key's installation recreates the way the space, a roofed-over alleyway, might have looked before it became a white-walled gallery.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Great 'painting' at Transformer Blake Gopnik 2010
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Of course, there were landing stages on all buildings for the aeros, but there was none of the closely massed, continuous building construction with roofed-over multiple moving ways and artificial temperature control and ventilation encountered almost everywhere else in the world.
"The War of the Planets" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2009
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Of course, there were landing stages on all buildings for the aeros, but there was none of the closely massed, continuous building construction with roofed-over multiple moving ways and artificial temperature control and ventilation encountered almost everywhere else in the world.
Archive 2009-09-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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The difference this year is the Astros, who had the chance to finish off the Cardinals Monday night in the warm and noisy embraces of roofed-over Minute Maid Park.
USATODAY.com - Cards send Astros reeling with dramatic victory in Game 5 2005
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Don't forget that today's box stores are tomorrow's archeological digs that will provide endless retrospectives for future archeologists as they study the ruins of the giant, discount roofed-over markets that flourished circa AD 2000 creating significant social changes only to fade ignominiously with the subsequent advent of new technologies that revolutioned consumer goods distribution methods.
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The book is set primarily in Gloriana's castle in the center of London, a warren of bricked-over passages and roofed-over rooms that is obviously meant to recall Gormenghast castle in all its unknowable complexity.
Archive 2005-11-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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The book is set primarily in Gloriana's castle in the center of London, a warren of bricked-over passages and roofed-over rooms that is obviously meant to recall Gormenghast castle in all its unknowable complexity.
Gloriana by Michael Moorcock: Being A Positive Bad Review or A Negative Good Review Abigail Nussbaum 2005
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It must have been a trick of the light, he told himself, the approaching dusk and the overhang of her roofed-over woodpile, but when she had so easily driven the hand ax into the stump, there had seemed to be a very odd expression on her face, a sort of grim pleasure, almost of malice.
A Darker Place King, Laurie R. 1999
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“Lych” was the Old English word for corpse — hence the roofed-over lych gate outside most churches, for the temporary resting of the bier (and its bearers) on the way into the graveyard.
The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998
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The roofed-over portico ensured a wild babble of voices rising to a roar in the market itself, crowded with slave running errands for their masters, merchants looking over goods with resale-and profit in mind, and everywhere the haggling, shouting, ear-bending roar of voices engaged in bargaining with merchants for a better price.
Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996
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