Those scars had long ago become a part of her, a thin tracery of lines that spoke of a history, a past. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt - Bonds of Justice] Reference
Between this rib and the tracery is another rib springing on the north side from a bunch of foliage and on the south from a grotesque corbel. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Those same lips that had been so insistent a few moments earlier were now like gossamer wings, making a kind of tracery over her smooth skin. From Wordnik.com. [Give Us Forever]
The tracery of this window is in good preservation, and is one of the most favourable examples of a kind of tracery developed in Scotland during the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Arms whirl in a liquid tracery, bodies rise and fall. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Retina dance company, Collisions, Juliet Aster] Reference
The tracery of this lofty pinnacle is inimitably beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The tracery has little depth, and is of the simplest design. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
No need of the delicate tracery in the corners to tell him whose. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The windows in the north aisle are decorated with reticulated tracery. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The window is of six lights, and the head contains late geometrical tracery. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
Shall I strive to spell the lesson written by the green earth's flowery tracery?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The sides are ornamented with panels of Perpendicular tracery containing shields. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
The tracery contains other figures and emblems, with the arms of the donor, the late. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
Loretta noticed a fine tracery of wrinkles fan outward across his pallid cheekbones. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference
The front of the organ gallery is very rich in Gothic moulding, tracery, crockets, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The tracery of this tower is like delicate lacework, and no one can imagine half its beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The rough brown walls took the shine and broidered themselves with a thread of golden tracery. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Baptist in the centre; the tracery being filled with appropriate emblems and ornamental devices. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
The architecture is in the Decorated style with reticulated tracery, as restored on the ancient model. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
There is more variety in the tracery of the windows in this north aisle than in those of the south aisle. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Here is the mighty rib cage of a great building, sheltered by a startlingly fine tracery of riveted steel. From Wordnik.com. [Unseen Washington: Photographer David Deal sees the city's hidden side] Reference
No: the delicate tracery of the pagoda-like structure showed dimly against the sky; but there was no sign of life. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The vault of the roof is bold, the tracery of the windows nearly rectilinear, and the mural paintings not without merit. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
As seen at present, they contain tracery of the Perpendicular period, a restoration of that inserted by Prior Wessington. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
These were converted into triplet openings during the reign of Edward III, with flowing tracery in the head of each arch. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
There are three windows above, of three lights each, corresponding with those on the opposite side, except in the tracery. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
The great western window, and the end windows of the N. and S. transepts, contain superb glass set in light flamboyant tracery. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The tracery in these windows bears a similarity to those in the corresponding arches of Hotham's work, but is not so ornamented. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
This window deserves the attention of the architectural student, as it is an exceedingly fine specimen of the tracery of its date. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
The pattern was a tracery of roses, buds, and leaves, very much conventionalized, but still recognizable for the things they were. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
Come, then, worthy reader and comrade, follow my steps into this vestibule ornamented with rich tracery, which opens to the hall of. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The southern and western walls of the cloisters remain, and contain a singular variety of tracery, mouldings, columns, and door-ways. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
It comprises a centre with wings, having openings with geometrical tracery and foliated mouldings, surmounted by an elegant cresting. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
The side sections of the screen terminate in ogee arches, elaborately cusped and crocketed, with perpendicular tracery in the spandrils. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
In the north transept there are three on each side, those next the tower being simple lancets, the others of two lights without tracery. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
There is an inner plane of tracery resting on clustered shafts, which is connected to the mullions of the window proper by through stones. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
Out through the brilliant confusion he went to the quiet square where the great trees laid a dark tracery of shadow upon the snow beneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The present structure of brick has been called a barn; it is of no architectural pretensions; the tracery of the windows is of the most meagre description. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Bargeboards are sometimes moulded only or carved, but as a rule the lower edges were cusped and had tracery in the spandrels besides being otherwise elaborated. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
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