Hispano-Moresque more technically classified the Big. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER II] Reference
R. went up afterwards to cut its throat à la Moresque, when he was insulted by an Arab. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
For the expression of its purpose, with all the solidity and grace consistent with that, the Moresque structure before us is not excelled by any within the grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
The estate, the historic, pre-Revolutionary Sterling farm house, greatly enlarged to include an incongruous but delightful, enclosed, tiled, Hispano-Moresque style patio with a fountain, was elegantly appointed. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: "Would You Like Me To Take My Shoes Off?", Dancing, Lunching and Laughing With Mrs. William F. Buckley, Jr.] Reference
This character is so pronounced, that I was obliged to examine more than twenty houses constructed in the same manner, and to study all the details of their construction, in order to assure myself that the windows had not really been taken from those fairy Moresque palaces, of which the Alhambra is the only remaining specimen. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Hispano-Moresque capitals, and decorative inscriptions. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Moresque was the form taken by the Mohammedans in Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part I] Reference
The frame was oval, richly gilded and filigreed in Moresque. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1] Reference
Moresque, the houses notwithstanding are both pleasantand convenient. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference
Morris (Moresque) Dance came into vogue in England during the reign of. From Wordnik.com. [Yule-Tide in Many Lands] Reference
Order in Europe, famous for its cloister and its graceful Moresque colonnade. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Hispano-Moresque art, partly no doubt on account of its excellent preservation. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Though the building is Moresque, the houses notwithstanding are both pleasantand convenient. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Dryden]
Our ice-palace was usually built in what I may call a free adaptation of the Canado-Moresque style. From Wordnik.com. [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference
The Moresque originated with the necessity of decorating the individual parts, and relates only to these. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
+Synagogue+ is the most noted of these, a rich and pleasing edifice of brick in a modified Hispano-Moresque style. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Wedding is surely better than jumping over a Broomstick, which, unless we had adopted the uncouth Moresque custom, would have been all the. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
To aid mental digestion I strolled over to the noble home of the Academy and Institute adjoining Mr. Huntington's Hispano-Moresque Museum. From Wordnik.com. [Police!!!] Reference
The 1,100 square foot space will house classic Roberto Coin designs along with the newest collections including CapriPlus, Ipanema and Moresque. From Wordnik.com. [consumer digest, luxury cars, luxury watches, luxury bedding, romantic gifts, gift baskets] Reference
To the above-mentioned types the Germans added especially the scroll work, which was by preference combined with the Moresque and then served as. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Hispano-Moresque more technically classified the Big House in all its hybridness, although there were experts who heatedly quarreled with the term. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
They are superseded by that mixture of Norman, Gothic, Arabic, and Moresque, which calls itself French and Spanish, with the blood of Central Africa. From Wordnik.com. [HAITI] Reference
In the doorway hung an old altar-lamp of silver, with a cup of ruby glass, and from various points depended other lamps of Moresque and antique shapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Pagans] Reference
Sehna and Saraband -- nothing but Moresque and pure Persian -- and one agedly perfect gem of Asia Minor, and one Tekke, so old and flawless that only the pigeon-blood fire remained under the violet bloom. From Wordnik.com. [The Firing Line] Reference
Unlike colorful Ottoman originals, these nostalgic matte-glazed Duemilaotto tiles of fired clay, designed by Boffi Creative Director Piero Lissoni, are all white, like monochromatic plateresque moldings on Hispano-Moresque buildings. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
In Persian decoration the most striking qualities are the harmony of blended color, broken up into minute patterns and more subdued in tone than in the Hispano-Moresque, and the preference of flowing lines and floral ornament to the geometric puzzles of Arabic design. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
Page 59 glass, opened into a beautifully proportioned rotunda; and beyond this circular apartment with its ruby-tinted sky-light and Moresque frescoes, extended two other rooms, of whose shape or contents Edna knew nothing, save the tall arched windows that looked down on the terrace. From Wordnik.com. [St. Elmo. A Novel.] Reference
Rising on either side of the road to the same level, the palms present the vista of a long unbroken double colonnade of dead-silver trunks, shining tall pillars with deep green plume-tufted summits, almost touching, almost forming something like the dream of an interminable Moresque arcade. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
A huge shell of its former greatness, a monster of Moresque dilapidations. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
Byzantine-Moresque. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
Hispano-Moresque plaques!. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Pleasure] Reference
A proper Moresque or Libertyesque house. ". From Wordnik.com. [Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World] Reference
Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Mosques, Moresque Pavilions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, etc. ". From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of the Natural World as Works of Art] Reference
The girl showed us darkly about the dreary place, with its fountains and orange trees and palms, its damp, Moresque, moldy walls, its damp, moldy, beautiful wooden ceilings, and its damp, moldy staircase leading to the family rooms overhead, which we could not see. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
In October 1957, the Division acquired a collection of rare, ceramic, drug jars which included two, 13th-century, North Syrian and Persian, albarello-shaped, majolica jars; a 15th-century, Hispano-Moresque drug container; and a 16th-century, Italian faience, dragon-spout ewer. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964] Reference
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