The form of the reddish flowers is thus somewhat urn-shaped with five radiating points. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
Jersey antique shop, a rare Empire bronze vase, urn-shaped, a specimen of the very finest kind of this metal engraving. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
The second has Corinthian columns, which must be fifteen feet in height, and a plain entablature, and some more urn-shaped pedestals. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
The fifth is an octagon, with two orders of open arches in each face, and an exterior arcading, urn-shaped pedestals being freely adopted as in the stage below. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
Clutching it to her, she ran straight for the burnurn, hurling herself among its foliage and shinning to the top of it without pause, before it could turn its urn-shaped lenses up to focus on her. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
Occasionally from the middle of the outer surface of the urn-shaped thalamus proceeds a perfect leaf, which could hardly be produced from the united sepals or calyx-tube; a similar occurrence in a pear is figured in Keith's 'Physiological Botany,' plate ix, fig. 12. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
An urn-shaped vase with long neck, and without handles. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466] Reference
Large, urn-shaped bowl of water-tight basket work, for sacred meal. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594] Reference
In late winter he produces cyme-like panicles of urn-shaped chartreuse flowers. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
This tree produces the hard urn-shaped fruits known in Brazil as monkey cups. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
& Co. The top part is an urn-shaped cigar lighter held by two figures of Hercules. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
These hide the urn-shaped, reddish brown flowers that arise between their petioles. From Wordnik.com. [theithacajournal.com -] Reference
The Jaina melon ornament is universal, surmounted generally by an urn-shaped finial. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Shrub: More shrub-shaped than urn-shaped; usually larger and wilder than other types. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
An Empire bed is flanked by matching Oriental-influenced tables and gold urn-shaped lamps. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The cup is urn-shaped with a well-defined neck or collar borne upon a shoulder-like end of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference
Over time the bridge's ornate concrete handrails and urn-shaped balusters have become damaged and rendered substandard. From Wordnik.com. [MailTribune.com Latest Headlines] Reference
Fortunately, the urn-shaped abomination I found in the Newgate cells, and have already described, was absent in Holloway. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference
She proved that she never did when she sent me two urn-shaped vases with Paul and Virginia on them, when I-- that is, later on. From Wordnik.com. [When a Man Marries] Reference
There are three general flower forms - small white flowers in loose clusters, bell or urn-shaped flowers and flat or open flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Drupal] Reference
The cell is oval cylindrical, a little contracted as usual with those of all the species of the genus, thus forming an urn-shaped cell. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
She was now the last remaining one of her family, but she could identify one article in the lot, a unique urn-shaped pitcher, of which she submitted a drawing, from memory. From Wordnik.com. [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference
The spout is elaborate and curved; the cover has an urn-shaped finial; and there is a decoration of an engraved medallion surrounded by a wreath with a ribbon forming a true lover's knot. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
The urn-shaped knife boxes which were so often placed on either side were chiefly of mahogany, sometimes inlaid with satinwood and often with those rare shell-like ornaments which became so popular in the days of. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Household Curios] Reference
The cube stands on a flight of usually three steps, and is surmounted by a low pyramid of five steps; on this is placed a swelling, urn-shaped body, which represents the hemisphere, and is surmounted by another cube. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
"The new facade surrounding the atrium and the urn-shaped meeting room area housed within it will together form an urban 'lantern' which will be visible as a European landmark in the city," states a project document. From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
This blind was formed of a number of little green wooden slats, faded and blistered by the suns of many summers, and so arranged that, by the turning of a brass, urn-shaped knob, they could be made to open and afford a prospect of the outer world to anyone sitting inside. From Wordnik.com. [The Nebuly Coat] Reference
A bristle-like receptacle and surrounded by an urn-shaped, slightly two-lipped involucre; ring transverse and opening vertically (Fig. 7). From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
A few urn-shaped lamps that looked as if they’d be more at home in the Arabian Nights were scattered around the room in apparently random fashion. From Wordnik.com. [A Wicked Gentleman] Reference
"We sent them that darling urn-shaped candy jar. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy As A Pa] Reference
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