Thick walls crowned by a bastion at each of its five angles encircled its vast grounds.

What follows is a brilliant and meticulously detailed account of the journey to the cemetery, everything from the "schistose-stone wall crowned with self-propagating plants" to the class distinctions evident in tombstones, to compensatory denials of the decomposition of the flesh.

All that remains today are the two exedres, semicircular low walls crowned with statues by the two ponds in the centre of the garden.

Concrete walls crowned in black iron bars protect a driveway that was overflowing with the cars of relatives and friends on Tuesday.

The actual mausoleum is made up of a single-domed square tomb (about 8 m x8 m) with sloping walls crowned by parapets.

Carlisle huddled within its red walls, crowned with its red keep; about its gate seethed the crowd which had sought to overrun Alf.

On either side of the Truckee great sierras rose like walls, castellated, embattled, rifted, skirted and crowned with pines of enormous size, the walls now and then breaking apart to show some snow-slashed peak rising into a heaven of intense, unclouded, sunny blue.

The archiepiscopal palace and monastic buildings on the south side were of great size and magnificence, and were surrounded by a massive precinct wall, crowned at intervals by twelve towers.

The police patrol in leaden gray armored vans with gun ports, and their barracks are heavily fortified bunkers, with massive portcullis doors and towering walls crowned with nests of rotating cameras and lights in concertina wire.

Contributing elements to the style are its massive and sober exterior elements consisting of wide walls and pilasters crowned with tuscan order capitols, planar window surrounds, and a set of steps giving access to the main portico which projects form the main facade.