With keen blade, like the horn of the cusped moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
It is a small window with a cusped head and a square label-mould above it. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
These were of three complete divisions on each wall, and have cusped heads. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The groining with cusped panels and numerous bosses has escaped restoration. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
They carried halberds with cusped blades a yard long, mounted with flame sickles. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
The east one has three and the west four lights, with cusped tracery in the heads. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
It contains three pointed and cusped lancets on each side, and is without buttresses. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
The tracery of the windows is interesting, as it shows early examples of cusped forms. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The tracery is divided into four compartments by mullions, and each head is filled with cusped work. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
On the north wall is a third, and in the south wall a piscina with two-cusped arch and projecting basin. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Secondly, the teeth are unusually tall and laterally compressed, and with an archaic multi-cusped crown morphology. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
At about half its height each is divided by a transom or horizontal mullion, beneath which the lights have cusped heads. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Springing from the capitals are moulded and cusped arches, which form on either side the heads of the panelled divisions. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
Its recess has a richly cusped arch, and in the wall below is a curious cupboard, intended probably for the sacramental vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
When Michael and Yuki opened their eyes, the magical girl found herself on top of the shopkeeper, his hands cusped under her chest. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep.13: March of the Steel Giant] 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
Above the doorway are seven lofty narrow windows, crowned each with a round and cusped arch, and forming a striking feature of the whole. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
You have seen such cusped arches before, you think?. From Wordnik.com. [Val d'Arno] Reference
I agree that the cusped arch is not meant to imitate a leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
Ladder-stitch occurs in the cusped shapes framing certain flowers in. From Wordnik.com. [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference
The cusped arch, too, was it actually not intended to imitate vegetation?. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
Round the head of the archbishop is a gable cusped with censing angels on each side of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
At the golden cusped archway beyond, all had to remove their shoes as though entering a mosque. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Telemachus] Reference
It is enclosed in a cusped aureola formed of several coloured bands of green, violet, and rose. From Wordnik.com. [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference
These battlements are pierced with cusped circles, below them is a cornice ornamented with foliage. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
If the lower fork has died off, for want of light, we obtain something like the simply cusped arch. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
Harys chantry; it has open tracery above cusped panels, canopied niches, and a panelled bench table. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings] Reference
Below this is a cusped arch in each light of the triforium with a crocketed gable ending in a finial above it. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
An arcading with shafts and cusped arches runs along the base of the front, not quite reaching the exterior buttresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
The arch of the great east window is surrounded with panelling, each panel curiously broken at different heights by cusped arches. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
At the point at which the buttress narrows into the pinnacle there are cusped gables with gargoyles on the outer side of the buttresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
The pillars supporting the canopy have fine capitals, and above them are cusped arches, with richly-carved scroll work in their spandrels. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See] Reference
1730 their five lights had simply cusped heads, the mullions running up to the architrave. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
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