In the apsis was a mosaic which represented the Blessed Trinity, and of which in 1512 some remnants were still found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

The east choir with the 1830s high altar; the rather interesting apsis painting was added in 1928.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral] Reference

When this apsis, therefore, of Mars shall appear in Virgo, who shall expect less than a strange catastrophe of human affairs in the commonwealth, monarchy, and kingdom of England?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

The spire of Notre Dame and the apsis may be seen up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference

It has two small transepts at the extremity of the nave, on each side of the apsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

It has an altar and an apsis, but it is adapted to preaching rather than to singing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

They were soon able to distinguish the epochs, and, disdainful of sacristans, they would say: "Ha! a Romanesque apsis!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

Notre-Dame at the moment when the fires of the setting sun were rippling and breaking about the manifold buttresses of the apsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference

The nave is divided into five aisles, and the main one, opening into the apsis, is spanned by a lofty arch supported by two colossal columns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

Nola, Fondi, etc. The basilica at Nola counted five naves and had on each side four additions or chapels (cubicula), and an apsis arranged in a clover shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

From the apsis to the extremity of the other end of the building were two rows of pillars supporting an upper wall, broken by circular arches and windows, called now the "clear story.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

It is variously designated apsis or concha (from the shell-like, hemispherical dome), and since the Middle Ages especially it has been called "choir", from the choir of singers who are here stationed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

Cupids; then the nave, vaulted and decorated with sunken coffers; then the four cyclopean buttress-piers upholding the dome, and then again the transepts and apsis, each as large as one of our churches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2] Reference

It was a large building, shaped like a basilica, with an apsis at one end, planted in the centre of the town, and thus commanding down each of the four streets a view of the four gates, and therefore called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03] Reference

They introduced the transepts, or cross - enclosures, making them to project north and south of the nave, in the space separated from the apsis; and the apsis was expanded into the choir, filled with priests and choristers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

Below the great window in the apsis, -- the same that contains what is one of the earliest of modern commentaries on the Book of Revelation, -- the pavement was perforated by a number of small openings; and on looking down, I could see a subterranean chamber, with burning lamps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference

Had taken root in the broken wall; two enormous pines standing close against the apsis served as lightning-rods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village Rector] Reference

Sir Isaac Newton, in calculating the effect of the sun's disturbing force on the motion of the moon's apogee, candidly concludes thus: "Idoque apsis summa singulis revolutionibus progrediendo conficit 1° 31′ 28″.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

The church's apsis, aisle or nave.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

The apsis is eighty feet in breadth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

The apsis is terminated by a straight wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference

Between the apsis and the auditory, called the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beacon Lights of History] Reference

Behind us rises the noble apsis of the cathedral.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference

Soapy apsis student loan consolidation http://www.yours-debt-consolidation.com/.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flickr’s Birthday Party « the j. botter weblog] Reference

By apsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The church's apsis, aisle, or nave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference

(Lat., apsis or absis, Ionic Gr., apsis, an arch).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference