It began with a gradual rise up a short broad Wady, separating the southernmost counterforts of the Shárr from the north end of the Jebel el-Ghuráb. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Reinforced concrete abutments are usually of L-section with counterforts bracing the upright slab and bridge seat to the base slab. ❋ Halbert Powers Gillette (N/A)
Concrete retaining walls may for construction purposes be divided into two classes: Plain concrete walls of gravity section and reinforced concrete walls consisting of a thin slab taking the thrust of the earth as a cantilever anchored to a base slab or as a flat beam between counterforts. ❋ Halbert Powers Gillette (N/A)
First, let the walls be given a thickness proportionate to the amount of filling; secondly, build counterforts or buttresses at the same time as the wall, on the outer side, at distances from each other equivalent to what is to be the height of the substructure and with the thickness of the substructure. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)
Walls and abutments were of L section with triangular or trapezoidal counterforts at the back between base slab and coping. ❋ Halbert Powers Gillette (N/A)
It has large ogive windows adorned with _rosaces_; at the place where the buttresses, equally carved with _rosaces_, join the counterforts or pillars, they have at their tops fine clochetoons; a great many statues and grotesque figures of heads complete the ornaments of this part of the church. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Two galleries, one under the windows, the other below the clochetoons of the counterforts, lead from the towers to the cross-aisle. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
The whole of the façade is formed of the two fore-parts of the northern and southern towers and of the large central porch; these three distinct portions are separated by counterforts or pillars which divide, as it were, the frontispiece into three broad vertical bands, each of which has its portico. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
The whole arrangement and disposition of an arched building is affected by the necessity of providing counterforts to resist the thrust of arches. ❋ Various (N/A)
Where the second tier begins, at the bottom of the rose-window, are four equestrian statues, placed in niches in the counterforts, three of which, those of Clovis, Dagobert and ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Rotunda has battlements (oddly enough, Ghibelline); there are towers and counterforts I cannot identify; and then the immense buttressed walls, with their green vegetation, and slabs and coats of arms of ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
Outside and opposite, the immense counterforts of the Palatine, and its terrace and sparse cypresses. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
St. Pierre in a carriage with several friends, to make the ascent by the shortest route of all, -- that of the Morne St. Martin, one of Pelée's western counterforts. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
The eastern faces here shed to the Niger, the western to the various streams between the Rokel-Seli, the Gambia, and the Senegal; and the last northern counterforts sink into the Sahará Desert. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
We know too little of the lands lying south-east of the confluence to determine the sequence of the chain, whose counterforts may give rise to the Eastern 'Oil Rivers.' ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
The counterforts or spurs of hills are favorable for artillery, as they enable it to see, with an enfilading fire, the slopes of the principal range. ❋ Henry Wager Halleck (1843)
A porch ornamented with some mouldings, and two or three pillars rudely hewn from sandstone; a tiled roof with counterforts of the same sandstone as the pillars -- that was all. ❋ Th��ophile Gautier (1841)
In like manner the inclined roof of a building spanning from wall to wall tends to thrust out the walls, and hence a tie is applied to hold the opposite sides of the roof together at its base, where alone a tie can be fully efficient, and thus the roof is made to act upon the walls wholly in the direction of gravity; or where an efficient tie is inapplicable, as in the case of a hammer beam roof, buttresses or counterforts are added to the walls, to enable them to resist the pressure outwards. ❋ Various (N/A)
The construction of this cupola is remarkable in these particulars -- that it is octangular, that it is double, and built entirely on the walls, unsupported by piers, and that there are no apparent counterforts.] ❋ Shearjashub Spooner (1834)
