My little apartment gave onto a beautiful little garden filled with plants, which unfortunately only intensified my symptoms.
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A corridor ran the length of the second floor, ending at an open doorframe that gave onto a landing.
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At the moment, he was still sleeping in his room, which had a window that gave onto a fire escape.
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When I closed the door, the wall behind him disappeared and gave onto a savage river surrounded by thick tropical vegetation.
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Crossing a vertiginous balcony, levitated high above the garden, they negotiated the third of three separate reception areas, which in turn gave onto an enormous secretarial antechamber.
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In the rear wall of the carriage house was a doorway, flanked by wood-and-glass harness cases, that gave onto an attached, well-ventilated stable with skylights and six horse stalls.
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The grand salon and the state rooms gave onto an English garden spread between the south facade and the gardens of the Champs-Élysées. The dining room was located in the west wing, between two courtyards and a small, oval internal garden, with heating. Two fountains were placed in a gallery between the kitchen and the buffet, a gallery reached through a billiards room and an octagonal hall. On the other side of the main courtyard was a picture gallery and a library, which gave onto Rue de la Bonne-Morue.
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Polygonal court mosaic Access to the villa was through a three-arched gateway, decorated with fountains and military paintings, and closely resembling a triumphal arch. This gave onto the horseshoe courtyard surrounded by marble columns with Ionic capitals with a square fountain at the centre. On the west side of the courtyard was a latrine, and also separate access was given to the baths and to the rest of the villa.
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As a child he would draw whenever possible, without particular encouragement by his family: his father was an air force pilot, his mother a housewife. One day, however, his mother showed his work to the director of the Ecole des Beaux- arts in Moscow. He was admitted immediately and spent the next four years receiving a classic education, the only requirement being precision. The best drawings were shown in a window that gave onto the street.
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It was a > critical situation, and they suffered heavy losses. Finally, several > resolute men, rallied by lieutenant de vaisseau Jaurès, succeeded in > smashing in the gate that gave onto the other compartment with their axes, > just as the engineers succeeded in breaking in, while the marine infantry > and the chasseurs outflanked the enemy line on the left. The defenders were > either killed where they stood or took to flight. The entire complex of the > Ky Hoa lines had fallen into our hands.
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The city overall consisted of modest houses, having expanded up to the border of the castle enclosure. (At the end of the 15th century it had 260 houses, making around 1300 inhabitants.) The queen and her small court marked a path running along a ravine at the foot of which was a fountain and washhouses giving access to a postern which gave onto a forward work entitled "Fer à cheval". In this era there was no quay and so the rotonda was washed by the sea. It was from this building that they could admire La Cordelière.
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In the beginning the meetings of the Generalitat, or "Diputació del General" did not have their own building, so they took place in the monastery of Saint Francis. Subsequently, and as the Generalitat's role gained importance, they decided to obtain their own building and finally, on 3 December 1400, their representatives, Alfons de Tous, Jaume Marc and Ramón Desplà, acquired Pere Brunet's house on the Carrer de Sant Honorat for 38,500 sous. This consisted of a small space with a façade on the Carrer de Sant Francesc, a central courtyard, another space closer to Carrer del Bisbe and a small orchard. This building gave onto Carrer Sant Honorat.
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When a certain number of grosses of pots had attained > this pitch of perfection, I was to paste on each a printed label, and then > go on again with more pots. Two or three other boys were kept at similar > duty down-stairs on similar wages. One of them came up, in a ragged apron > and a paper cap, on the first Monday morning, to show me the trick of using > the string and tying the knot. His name was Bob Fagin; and I took the > liberty of using his name, long afterwards, in Oliver Twist.. When the warehouse was moved to Chandos Street in the smart, busy district of Covent Garden, the boys worked in a room in which the window gave onto the street.
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Near the staircase there was a rectangular altar with a concavity equipped with a drain hole, which in turn gave onto a transverse channel which allowed the outflow of the liquids produced by the sacrifices without mixing them with the sacred waters of the well. The temple is surrounded by a temenos, sacred enclosure, elliptical in shape, which had the function, as in other temples, to separate the temple from the rest of the site. The fence is built in megalithic work, that is with rough-hewn and not perfectly squared stones like those of the well. The practice of ordeal and the treatment of infirmities (sanatio) in the Sardinian water sources, confirmed by the presence of many ex-votos, is mentioned by Gaius Julius Solinus who, in the 3rd century AD, reports that «springs, hot and wholesome, well up in many places.
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