On the front of the plinth is the single word 'Canada'. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Remembrance] Reference
The plinth is a reproduction of Mr. Hussein's thumbprint, and atop is a stylized reproduction, in gold, of his Arabic initials. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: Saddam Hussein, who struggles so] Reference
"Similarly, the plinth should be a simple and elegant solution - like evolutionary thinking.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
On one surface of the plinth is a spigot and a cup, and underneath a drip-stone, where thirsty dogs can drink. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
For 100 days, around the clock, the plinth was a small stage on which 2,400 persons, one per hour, expressed themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificence Democratized] Reference
The pillar is not placed in the center, but at one end of the plinth, which is the case in almost every lamp of this description yet found. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
However, the statue was only completed a month before his death and the plinth, which is made of Craigleith sandstone, was not ready until after his death in February 1685. From Wordnik.com. Reference
You know, I can't look at the word "plinth" and not think of the old Dan Aykroyd character, Leonard Pinth-Garnell. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
The transept is divided by the string-courses into four stages, and has a very massive plinth which is lower than that of the nave, thus expressing the slope of the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
But Ann Widdecombe's honesty should have its own plinth. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly Come Dancing: The Ann Widdecombe campaign starts here] Reference
The plinth is considerably higher than that of the west front. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
The well-marked plinth of this east end has been already noticed. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
The plinth, or base, is but slightly moulded, and is 23 inches in height. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
The first storey is about sixteen feet high, including the plinth at the bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
The effect of a heptagonal stem on an octagonal base or plinth is certainly odd. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
On a rectangular plinth rises a rectangular pillar, crowned by a capricious capital. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
But the lower will seem to be larger, because it will project to the edge of the plinth. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
She staggered backward against the sundial, losing her footing as the plinth unbalanced her. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
Its base or plinth is formed of two or three successive platforms or steps of the same material. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
Fig. 284 is a sketch of a constructional frame such as is used for building up a cornice or plinth. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
The bases are also simple, and stand on a massive square plinth, a feature not uncommon in Norman work. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
The forty-six stalls in the choir, erected on a plinth of red sandstone, belong to this period (1401-19). 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
Sometimes after a long delay, he will build a miserable mud-house on the top of his handsome stone plinth. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
The panels of the desks are elaborately worked, and the stone plinth which supports them is decorated with quatrefoils. 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
Gay-friendly and a sensualist, Thomas Hoving had had his newest trophy installed on a plinth of the great hall's balcony. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: Saluting the Met's Gay Gala!] Reference
Above the plinth comes a sculptured group of figures, which is repeated in panels all round the pyramid, twice on each side. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Wellington red brick for the facings above plinth, with Broseley tiles for the roofs, the few stone dressings being of Ham Hill. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference
Fig. 55 illustrates a mud-plastered oven at Pescado, which is elevated about a foot above the ground on a base or plinth of masonry. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The over-all dimensions of the cabinet represented are as follows: Height, including plinth, 25 inches; width, 17-3/8 inches; depth. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
Soon the plinth, now again empty, will hold, for a while, a statue of Sir Keith Park, a Royal Air Force hero of the Battle of Britain. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificence Democratized] Reference
A mayfly is caught in the frame of the mysterious plinth as if trapped in time, its wings still in tact and thereby sustaining its life. From Wordnik.com. [A. Moret: LAX to Charles de Gaulle] Reference
Let the base, including the plinth, be fixed at half the thickness, and let the proportions of the capital be as shown in the third book. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
In one case (the north) the pilasters are carried down to the floor: in the other they rest upon a stone plinth or skirting a few inches above it. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less] Reference
If the single flap seems to give a lop-sided effect, place a fellow on the other side, and fit it with sunk bolts to shoot into the overhanging top and plinth. From Wordnik.com. [Things To Make] Reference
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