Each compartment has an arcade of four lancet-shaped divisions, the external ones blank; while the internal divisions (which are wider than the others) form the window. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
In the east end, on the north side, are three lancet-shaped windows, forming one great window, divided by slender pillars, and having mouldings, with zig-zag ornaments. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832] Reference
The windows of the aisles and triforium were originally three lancet-shaped lights under one arch, but were replaced in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by larger windows of a flamboyant character. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
The windows of the aisle are uniform in size and shape, those of the triforium are nearly similar, but all were originally lancet-shaped, but altered to their present form in the latter part of the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
In each of the six spandrels are a deeply recessed quatrefoil, two trefoiled arches (like the upper part of a niche), a pair of lancet-shaped niches containing figures, and a beautifully designed hexagonal ornament, with wavy edges, the cusps uniting in a central boss. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference
The clerestory arches are of the same span, but each is divided into three smaller ones, the centre arch being higher than those on either side, in order to admit light through the windows behind, which are three lancet-shaped lights under one arch in the outer wall, and are, we believe, original; these windows have been filled with stained glass, which is another important step towards the general improvement. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
The body is elongate, lancet-shaped, with a tapering anterior extremity. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference
The fender was of polished steel, with much lancet-shaped open-work and a sharp edge. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
The fender was of polished steel, with much lancet-shaped open-work and a sharp edge. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
The windows of the triforium have semi-circular arched mouldings, enclosing a window of three lights of lancet-shaped arches. From Wordnik.com. [Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference
In the old days there was no window, but now there is a window, a small one, lancet-shaped, set with stained glass, opening into the court. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Paramount] Reference
In the Lachesis, which is so closely allied to the Rattle-snake that it was placed by Linnæus in the same genus, the tail ends in a single, large, lancet-shaped point or scale. From Wordnik.com. [The expression of the emotions in man and animals] Reference
Bile solubility (+) Quellung rxn Meningitis (adult) Pneumonia (rusty sputum) Sinusitis Capsule, IgA protease S. pneumoniae (lancet-shaped) Flora colon, URT Alpha, beta or gamma hem. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The numerous and large base mouldings running round the wall of this building, its tall lancet-shaped windows, arcades, and ovolar and lozenge-shaped panels, are so many interesting peculiarities of design. From Wordnik.com. [Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference
When Will Ladislaw had come in, a second fender, said to have been forgotten in its right place, suddenly claimed the auctioneer's enthusiasm, which he distributed on the equitable principle of praising those things most which were most in need of praise The fender was of polished steel, with much lancet-shaped open-work and a sharp edge. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)] Reference
Gothic pillars, which spring from the middle of the area, and meet in pointed arches at the roof, it is lighted only by a range of lancet-shaped windows, which being elevated above the floor to the height of forty or fifty feet, throw down a few broken rays upon your head, just sufficient to render the darkness visible, but not to dispel it. From Wordnik.com. [Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II] Reference
The windows, narrow and lancet-shaped, were deeply recessed; the slender shafts of the columns were carried in clusters to a vast height, surmounted by pinnacles of rich and elegant tracery; these gave a light and airy character to the whole, highly significant of the buoyant feelings that accompanied so wonderful an escape from the heavy trammels of their predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Occupying the north-eastern side of the court rose the grim, time-worn front of the ancient hall, consisting of one tall pyramidal gable of ancient grey brickwork flanked with two tall slender towers, the whole with the lancet-shaped windows and severe style of the twelfth century, excepting a rose-window in the centre with the decorated mullions of a somewhat later period. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Salix herbacea has the 1/3 arrangement and rounded leaves, Salix caprea elliptic leaves and 2/5, Salix pentandra lancet-shaped leaves and 3/8, and S. incana linear leaves and a 5/13 arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In] Reference
The windows, one of the most apparent marks of distinction, were at first long, narrow, and lancet-shaped: the heavy Norman ornaments, the zig-zag and other mouldings peculiar to the Norman and Semi-Norman styles, were now discarded; yet we often meet with certain decorative ornaments, as the tooth ornament, which, though sometimes found in late Norman work, is almost peculiar to the Early Pointed style; also the ball-flower, prevalent both in this and the style of the succeeding century. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.] Reference
"Its symmetrical proportions, before completely spoilt; the remnants of its ancient painting, which were traceable beneath the whitewash; the fair disclosure of the monuments of Joanna de Kilpec, a benefactress to this very edifice, and Humphry de Bohun, her husband, both of exceeding interest; the discovery of two aumbries, both walled up, but one with the stones composing it reversed; the double piscina on the south side, the chapel of Bishop Audley; but especially two of the most beautiful specimens of transition arches which can be found in any edifice, bearing the Early English form, the shafts and capitals and the lancet-shaped arch above, but ornamented in their soffits with the Norman moulding, and the zig-zag decoration, corresponding with the remarkable union of the Norman intersecting arches on the exterior of the building, with its pointed characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference
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