Word: skylighted
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...long impotent, the Deputies finally had a platform, and some used it well. One was Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Gaullist Finance Minister and leader of the 43-member Independent Republicans, who are allied with the Gaullists. As he rose to speak, he glanced at the ornate skylight through which flooded the late-afternoon rays of the spring sun. "Never has the light that falls from that skylight seemed to me to illuminate such an unreal world," he said...
...reasoned that the ark was probably built of either bamboo or lightweight wood, both common to southern Iraq. To reconstruct the design, he relied entirely on God's cryptic commands to Noah (Genesis 6: 14-16) that the ark should have a door in its side, a skylight and three decks. The Scriptures mention three dimensions: the vessel was to be 300 cubits (492 ft.) long, 50 cubits (82 ft.) wide, and 30 cubits (49 ft.) high. That would make it somewhat larger than a World War II Liberty ship. After exhaustive reckoning, Ben-Uri concluded that to meet...
...vessel could have been built while lying at an angle on one side. Animals could easily climb a gentle incline on a side and enter through a door. As the ark began to float, it would right itself; as a result, the door would tilt and become a skylight in the roof, and water could not enter the craft from its sides. The design, according to Ben-Uri, could easily accommodate three decks and provide a capacity of some 5,500 tons, enough for at least 1,000 pairs of animals...
Mount, for his part, was purely a Yankee stay-at-home who spent most of his life in the farm country around Stony Brook, Long Island. He was a picturesque figure in a horse-drawn carriage, equipped as a studio with skylight and easel, touring the dirt roads to paint the farmers horse trading, napping, husking corn. He produced scores of paintings before his death in 1868 at 61, and among them was a charming rendition of cider-making time...
...walkup in Greenwich Village. In Ogden Nash's phrase, "a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she is pattable." And so it proves in Barefoot. The puny pad she has chosen has no heat, no bathtub, and a hole in the skylight...