Sentences with phrase «ramparts lowering»

He walked over a mile, as far as MIT, and then turned around and started back again past shuttered Victorian factories converted into warehouses, redbrick ramparts lowering in the shadows of taller office buildings.

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Few cities in the world enjoy such a dramatic setting and atmosphere as Marrakech where the rose - pink walls of the ancient city sit low beneath the soaring peaks of the Atlas Mountains and the towering palm trees jostle for position above the medieval ramparts where nesting storks colonise each vacant turret.

Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928) Ramparts signed and dated «frankenthaler» 70» (lower right)-- signed again, titled and dated twice «Frankenthaler»70 «Ramparts» 1970» (on the stretcher) acrylic on canvas 82.1 / 8 x 86.7 / 8 in.