It has a sixteen sided outer shell with an iron skeleton that rises 96 meters high, and an inner shell star vault supported on sixteen stone pillars.

She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was Lund's first tea clipper.

Prior to the Hitlerian war it had supported one of the last great boatyards nearabouts, but now the dry-dock was choked with weeds beneath the iron skeleton of the old glass roof.

You know," Arcot mused, "I've been thinking about that man's strength; an iron skeleton doesn't explain it all.

The iron skeleton ended at the seventh-floor level, where the Tower Building returned to traditional construction for the top floors only.

In a small concrete circle was a set of swings and the iron skeleton of a climbing structure.

Eiffel devised a complex iron "skeleton" around a double winding staircase to which each plate of copper was individually attached.

It's instinct, babe . . . and I guess I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.

Two miles to the west the darkness was pierced only by a red lamp on top of a tall structure, the iron skeleton of a partly built carpark.

The iron skeletons of buildings creaked in bitter winds.