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Quotes About Tiers

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The Brute was the biggest prison block in Coldheart. It had eighteen tiers of cells arranged around a wide-open space. Hanging over that space was the security hub/control room, a large, windowed cube that dangled on thick chains, accessible only via retractable walkways. Far beneath it, level with the block's second tier, was a large dais that hovered in place – no chains, ropes or struts necessary. Two tiers beneath that, a lake of energy rippled over the floor.
~ Derek Landy
Below me, in spreading, concentric circles, like those a fish makes when it rises in still water, spun round the lower tiers; above me arched the black sky pierced by the gas jets of the stars.
~ Angela Carter
The village is perched on a precipitous hillside, and the houses are built in tiers, one up behind the other, the floor of one level with the roof of the next. The whole village looks as if it were just about to slide into the depths of the valley below.
~ Mary Stewart
We could not enter the soulscape, but we could move, disembodied, through the real world. The combined essence of our minds soared up through the tiers of Taparak, the ancient trunks shadowy to our altered awareness.
~ Storm Constantine
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~ James Joyce
My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.
~ Sellapan Ramanathan
Virtual reality, to me, seems to have a number of different tiers. Entry-level-tier VR is this experience: on a phone, some simple head-tracking, and some quick and dirty, game-engine-quality stuff.
~ Deadmau5
There were three rows of high windows facing one another in three tiers.
~ 1 Kings 7:4