Well-preserved Sentence Examples

Excellent - A fully restored or well-preserved car is considered in excellent condition.

It is most picturesquely situated in the valley under the rocky ridge on which are still the very well preserved remains of the castle of Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the first crusade.

A portion of its course, however, between Forum Traiani and the modern Abbasanta, is not so followed, and is still well preserved.

To the south-west of the Forum are the remains of three small temples, one dedicated to Venus, and a well-preserved Mithraeum, with mosaics representing the seven planets, &c. To the south-west again is the conspicuous brick cella of a lofty temple, on arched substructures, generally supposed to be that of Vulcan, with a threshold block of africano (Euboean) marble over 15 ft.

If you have an heirloom dress that's been well-preserved, consider yourself lucky to have such a treasure in the family.

It is flanked on each side by well-preserved warehouses, another group of which, surrounding a large court, lies to the south-west.

It has five wide arches, the central one having a span of 35 ft., and is well preserved.

The men are hardy, well built and handsome; and the women are noted for their beauty, the ancient Greek type being well preserved.

Perhaps the oldest remains are some of the piers -and buttresses of the bridge over the Moselle, which may date from about 28 B.C. The well-preserved amphitheatre just outside the modern town to the south-east was probably built in the reign of Trajan or Hadrian.

Fragments of wood not infrequently occur, with the tissues well-preserved by impregnation with the resin; while leaves, flowers and fruits are occasionally found in marvellous perfection.

The site is now covered with valonia oaks, and has been much plundered, e.g by Mahommed IV., who took columns to adorn his new Valideh mosque in Stambul; but the circuit of the old walls can be traced, and in several places they are fairly well preserved.

The road which ascended to the temple from the rim of the lake is still well preserved.

A portion of its western front, adorned with monolith unfluted Corinthian columns, is still standing - the familiar " Stoa of Hadrian "; another well-preserved portion, with six pilasters, runs parallel to the west side of Aeolus Street.

The royal palace, designed by Friedrich von Gartner (1792-1847), is a tasteless structure; attached to it is a beautiful garden laid out by Queen Amalia, which contains a well-preserved mosaic floor of the Roman period.

At Llanllaianau was found, in 1841, a stone coffin, holding a well-preserved skeleton of 71 ft.

Lincoln's home (erected in 1839 and bought by Lincoln in 1844) in Springfield is well preserved by the state.

At the ninth mile the road crosses a ravine by the well-preserved and lofty Ponte di Nona, with seven arches, the finest ancient bridge in the neighbourhood of Rome.

In the stretch beyond Gabii it is only used as a track, and well preserved.

Half-way between Gabii and Praeneste is the well-preserved single-arched bridge, known as Ponte Amato.

By the last two methods the colour of the flowers may be well preserved.

Huriel has a church of the 11th century and a well-preserved keep, the chief survival of a medieval castle.

In a valley just to the south-west of the precinct is the stadium, of which the seats and goal are well preserved.

The goal, which is well preserved at the upper end, is similar to that at Olympia; it consists of a sill of stone sunk level with the ground, with parallel grooves for the feet of the runners at starting, and sockets to hold the posts that separated the spaces assigned to the various competitors, and served as guides to them in running.

It is situated upon a lofty plateau, the highest point of which (823 ft.), projecting to the W., was the ancient citadel, and is occupied by the well-preserved castle erected by Frederick II., and rebuilt by Pierre d'Angicourt about 1280.

A well-preserved gateway of red sandstone and portions of two towers of the castle are included in the buildings of the present gaol, and the old parish church of St Peter contains some interesting monuments, amongst them being the altar tomb (of the 6th century) of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., and his wife, which was removed hither for safety at the Reformation from the desecrated church of the neighbouring Priory of St John.

F.," in letters once filled in with bronze, is well preserved.

It has a fine and well-preserved castle, built in 1490 by Gentile Virginio Orsini; it is square, with round towers at the angles.

It is a hexastyle peripteros with fourteen columns on each side, and is remarkably well-preserved, both pediments and the epistyle at the sides being still in situ.

There were four gates, that on the east with a single arched opening being well-preserved.

The site has been excavated by the Greek Archaeological Society; it contained a temple, a sacred spring, into which coins were thrown by worshippers, altars and porticoes, and a small theatre, of which the proscenium is well preserved.

In this case the 14th and 15th century painted decorations are well preserved.

There arc also remains of a well-preserved Roman theatre, close to the left bank of the river.

It is surrounded by its ancient Etruscan walls, which for the greater part of the circuit are fairly well preserved.

Next come the various kinds of inhumation graves, the most important of which are rock-hewn chambers, many of which contain well-preserved paintings of various periods; some show close kinship to archaic Greek art, while others are more recent, and one, the Grotta del Tifone (so called from the typhons, or winged genii of death, represented) in which Latin as well as Etruscan inscriptions appear, belongs perhaps to the middle of the 4th century B.C. Fine sarcophagi from these tombs, some showing traces of painting, are preserved in the municipal museum, and also numerous fine Greek vases, bronzes and other objects.

The old Dominican convent, on an island east of the town, is now turned into a hotel, but the buildings (especially the cloisters) are well preserved.

Near the site there are some very ancient houses, one of which, known as King John's Palace, is of the highest interest, as it is considered to be earlier than any example of the 12th century in England, and is well preserved.

The well-preserved amphitheatre, the subterranean parts of which below the arena are intact, with a main passage down the centre, a curved passage all round with holes for trap doors in its roof, and numerous small chambers, also with trap doors in their vaulted roofs for admitting the wild beasts, whose cages were on the other side of the curved passage, to the arena, are especially interesting.

On the summit, approached by a well-preserved flight of steps, are the remains of a palace of the Mycenaean age, similar to that found at Tiryns, though not so complicated or extensive.

The Sahidic is not so well preserved.

In 1176 Strongbow, earl of Pembroke, and chief leader of the Anglo-Norman forces, died in Dublin of a mortification in one of his feet, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, where his monument remains well preserved.

The church is fortunately well preserved.

In a few instances, such bodies, probably more than five thousand years old, have been found with skin and hair well preserved though dried and shrunken; usually everything but the bones has decayed.

In the Middle Kingdom necropolis of Beni Hasan, Garstang found many intact interments in coffins, and in one case the body was well preserved.

From the floor of the crater rise sixteen well-preserved cinder-cones, which range from more than 400 ft.

At Pompeii the baths are so well preserved as to show at a glance the purpose of all the different parts - while they are among the most richly decorated of all the buildings in the city.

The Torres Bermejas (Vermilion Towers), also on Monte Mauror, are a well-preserved Moorish fortification, with underground cisterns, stables, and accommodation for a garrison of 200 men.

Triada in 1913 found a portico bordering a courtyard of the palace, a large deposit of inscribed clay tablets, and a well-preserved L.M.

The well-preserved Doric temple to the north of the acropolis at Athens, commonly known as the Theseum, was long supposed to be the sanctuary in which the bones of Theseus reposed.

Those on the refectory door of Merton College, Oxford, are a beautiful and well-preserved example dating from the 14th century.

Besides numerous fragments of nude and draped figures belonging to pedimental statues, a well-preserved and very beautiful head of a female divinity, probably Hera, as well as a draped female torso of excellent workmanship, both belonging to the pediments, have been discovered.

On the north of the town they are especially well-preserved, and at one point the area within them is slightly extended by a terrace supported by three lofty pillars.

There are eight other volcanoes, which although extinct or dormant have well-preserved cones.

The Torre del Pailleron on the south and the Torre del Leproso in the west are especially well preserved.

After Constantinople became the capital of the empire Nicaea grew in importance, and after the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders became the temporary seat of the Byzantine emperor; the double line of walls with the Roman gates is still well preserved.

The well-preserved Hellenistic walls were also studied.

Other long-tailed pterodactyles occur well preserved in the Upper Jurassic (lithographic stone) of Bavaria and Wurttemberg, which is so fine-grained as to show impressions of the wing-membrane.

The ruins include the remains of the former pepper warehouses, the old factory, called Fort Speelwijk, belonging to the company, the fortified palace of the former sultans and a well-preserved mosque thought to have been built by the third Mahommedan ruler of Bantam about 1562-1576, and containing the tombs of various princes of Bantam.

It has few industries and little trade, but the medieval walls, well preserved castle and mosques are interesting, and the old Seljuk medresse, or college, is a beautiful building.

It was founded by Manfred in 1263, and destroyed by the Turks in 1620; but the medieval castle of the Angevins and parts of the town walls are well preserved.

Farther up is Alland, whence a road leads to the old and well-preserved abbey of Heiligenkreuz.

Its former greatness is attested by many Roman remains, the chief of which are two well-preserved stone gateways, the Porte d'Arroux and the Porte St Andre, both pierced with four archways and surmounted by arcades.

The profusion of turrets, pinnacles, and dormer windows which decorates the roof of this, the chief portion of the château, constitutes the main feature of the exterior, while in the interior are a well-preserved chapel of the 16th century and a famous double staircase, the construction of which permits two people to ascend and descend respectively without seeing one another.

Close by is the ancient and well-preserved castle of Doornwerth with its own chapel.

It is, however, extremely well preserved.

Here are the well preserved ruins of a former castle of the Brethren of the Sword, afterwards (from 1237) of the grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights.

Main, identified by Halevy as the seat of the former, is on a hilltop surrounded by walls still well preserved.

The existence of these gigantic Algae in Palaeozoic times, attested by such well-preserved specimens, is a fact of great interest, though their systematic position is still an open question.

Specimens of Todites have been obtained from England, Poland, and elsewhere, sufficiently well preserved to afford good evidence of a correspondence in the structure of their sporangia with those of recent Osmundaceae.

The evidence adduced by Nathorst and some other writers is, however, not convincing; until we find well-preserved sporocarps in connection with vegetative fronds we prefer to keep an open mind as regards the position of Sagenopteris.

This genus has long been known as a common and widely spread Jurassic and Cretaceous conifer, but owing to the absence of petrified specimens and of well-preserved cones, it has been impossible to refer it to a definite position in the Coniferales.

Well-preserved Abietineous female flowers have been obtained from the Wealden rocks of England and Belgium, e.g.

The distinctive microscopic anatomy of hazel wood allows definite identification of well-preserved specimens of wood and charcoal.

The bowl barrows in Ashley Wood are comparatively well preserved examples of their class.

There is little that can compare with the well preserved classicism of Ston Easton Park.

It is extremely unusual to find all features associated with this ice disintegration so well preserved in such close proximity.

Bones will reveal life of dodo - 26/06/2006 Well-preserved bones of the extinct flightless dodo bird are uncovered in Mauritius.

These plant remains principally comprise well preserved plant epidermises, at least some of which are Gramineae.

It became known in the scientific community for the discovery of well preserved fossils.

The fishing port has remained lively, the 16th century citadel has been well preserved and three remarkable towers are scattered around Saint Tropez.

In the dark, marine shales of the Lower Lias are found well preserved examples.

Take a walk along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath through the Weavers ' Triangle - a well preserved Victorian industrial townscape.

Archeologists have recently found well-preserved Yew wood carvings at ancient sites of springs and wells which were probably votive offerings.

Machu Picchu is a remarkably well-preserved abandoned Inca city set high up in the Andean mountains.

Little survives of the south and west ranges, but the small chapel of the infirmary is amazingly well-preserved.

There is a very well-preserved theater of Arykanda in the middle of the terrace below.

The carvings were both intricate and surprisingly well-preserved considering they had been braving wind, rain and snow since 1697.

The profusion of turrets, pinnacles, and dormer windows which decorates the roof of this, the chief portion of the château, constitutes the main feature of the exterior, while in the interior are a well-preserved chapel of the 16th century and a famous double staircase, the construction of which permits two people to ascend and descend respectively without seeing one another.

The sites of several ancient towns in Acarnania are marked by well-preserved walls, especially those of Stratus, Oeniadae and Limnaea.

Great quantities of large, well-preserved saurian fossils new to science were found in the Grentzbitumenzone.

Beside well-preserved pottery, there are sherds of broken vessels or vessels with missing bodies which were left as grave goods.

Siderite nodules from the Coseley fossil assemblage contain an abundant, diverse, and well preserved coal measures flora.

At Conisbrough to the Southwest of the town, there is a ruined Norman castle with a well-preserved circular keep.

The impressive size of this well-preserved castle, the largest in Wales, is completely stunning on first sight.

Finds included several coffins and well-preserved remains within a surviving vault.

Vitre, a small well-preserved medieval town is a 15 min drive away.

The forge stands as a rare and well-preserved example of what village life was like in years gone by.

In fact, the well-preserved building now is listed on Britain 's national historic register.

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Today, this 16th century fortress is a national monument and visitors can climb over its ramparts and tour its well-preserved living quarters.

Muscle tissue dies quickly, but a well-preserved part can be successfully reattached as much as 24 hours after the amputation occurs.

Since so much of the clothes were made of polyester, they have been well preserved.

In fact, archaeologists have unearthed clothing and other items made out of felt that were extremely well-preserved due to the craftsmanship and sturdiness of the felted wool.

If you have ever wondered how these public icons remain slim and well-preserved over the course of a lifetime, you may be in for a few radical surprises.

The colonial history of the building stands well preserved beside the modern changes.

On the right (N.) are some small well-preserved thermae, and the barracks of the firemen (vigiles), a special cohort of whom was stationed here.