Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel. From LearnThat.org. [T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)]
The lintel is the horizontal crosspiece over the door. From Wordnik.com. [inJesus :: Online Community :: Last posted message] Reference
The word isn't lintel, which is the horizontal top of a doorway. From Wordnik.com. [January 28th, 2002] Reference
Fig. 98: Make sure the lintel is the correct size for wide openings. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
On the lintel is the stationmaster's name painted in small white letters, like the name of the landlord over the doorway of an inn. From Wordnik.com. [Hodge and His Masters] Reference
The date 1685 is on one of the blocks, and 1672 on a lintel which is now placed with them. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sun-Dials] Reference
A moment later she poked her head around the lintel. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
The name was on the lintel: "Flamsted Quarries Hall.". From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The lintel of the door of the tomb of one of the priests of. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
I went under the door-lintel, and stood a little abashed before him. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
In another of the Kabah structures was found a wooden lintel, elegantly carved. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The height of the lintel should be equivalent to the width of the jambs at the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The cracked door-lintel, which shows an eagle on the soffit, was propped up first by. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Upon the transverse lintel we read the following Hebrew inscription, neatly engraved. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
She straightened by the door, and the hand on the lintel gripped until the nails went white. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
The use of this design above the lintel of the gate brings it into homology with the Winged Disk. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Their lintel beams should be placed high enough to make the height of the alae equal to their width. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Before the chapter ends, she'll press her father's pen upon the lintel and leave a perfect full stop. From Wordnik.com. [Spill] Reference
A lintel, consisting of a single stone, some two tons 'weight, was supported by the protruding jambs. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
Most recently I was a paint stripper, a male stripper and a glued strip over the lintel needing sanding. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sun Sets Like a Nice Salmon Mousse] Reference
"And you say to brick," Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel. From Wordnik.com. [How To Talk To A Brick] Reference
Fra Battista, leaning against the lintel, kept his eyelids on the droop, seemed to find his toes of interest. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Two monolith jambs support a huge lintel, cambered in the middle like the tie-beams of our sixteenth-century roofs. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
As he passed the lintel the not insignificant form of Rette blocked his exit, en route for a cup she had left behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
In the Greek building every opening is covered by a lintel; in the Gothic building every opening is covered by an arch. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
The walls rise half way up these abutments; the doorway is to the south, and has the ports and lintel richly decorated. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
She raised her eyes to the face of Maren leaning above her against the lintel, and they were full of a puzzled question. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
One of its doors in particular had its lintel of granite on which rested a huge mass of fallen stone without displacing it. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
Behold I will make Jerusalem a lintel of surfeiting to all the people round about: and Juda also shall be in the siege against. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision] Reference
They found that the post and lintel was a simple means of building, and they adopted it as their permanent method of construction. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
He found, in the column and the lintel, means perfectly adequate to realize his ideal of high unalterable beauty, and he was content. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Rhetta, leaning to peer under the lintel of the low door, could see him there, and she reached out her hand, appealing without a word. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Romans, who for a time were satisfied with these simple methods, became impatient of the constructive limitation of the post and lintel. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Swinging from the lintel, shadowy against the grey light beyond was, apparently, the figure of Richard Frencham Altar dangling on a rope. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
The thunder-stone was placed over the lintel of the cow-shed for the same purpose as the winged disk over the door of an Egyptian temple. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
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