Its tessellated marble work, its ancient mosaics, with its. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
(Telloh); tessellated pillars with nacre plaques ( 'Obeid). From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
I think I may go to Subway today and ask for tessellated cheese. From Wordnik.com. [dear Subway… « raincoaster] Reference
But tonight I am definitely going to ask for tessellated cheese. From Wordnik.com. [dear Subway… « raincoaster] Reference
Roses had blossomed here in kraters set upon a tessellated pavement. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
I said to him, "Can you tell me the way to the tessellated pavement?". From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
In front of the altar is a tessellated pavement 11 feet long and nearly. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
If one uses a spatial metaphor, the absolutist vision is a tessellated map. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
The Amalienborg, a fine tessellated square, contains four Royal palaces, in one of which our. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
If Kenkenes sat, he paced the tessellated pavement slowly and with a foot-fall lighter than a birds. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
As usual, the front of the house seemed deserted, the tessellated hall was empty, unnaturally silent. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
This wallpaper, printed with tessellated ink drawings of iguanas, plants, birdies and bugs, is damned handsome. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives] Reference
The ploughman turns up an old Saxon's bones, and beneath them is a tessellated pavement of the time of the Caesars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Upon the marble tubs, the tessellated floors, the gilded columns and mirrors of this apartment a great sum was expended. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
By noon he had one, a tiny tessellated cone he hoped couldn't paralyze a housecat, and he dropped it in a mug with some seawater. From Wordnik.com. [The Shell Collector : Stories] Reference
Out in the sanded strip across the tessellated floor, tumblers were glistening with perspiration from their vaguely noticed efforts. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
A nice Roman tessellated pavement was unearthed near the Wadi Ghuzzeh, at the place called Umm Jerar, which is associated with Abraham. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
Convolvuluses, Candytufts, Eschscholtzias, Poppies, and Clarkias; and damp, half-shady borders have been delicately tessellated by means of. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
Jerbourg, the nearly obliterated tessellated pavement and fragments of wall belonging to the sybarite's villa, which occupied the site in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
"Luncheon" clinched for me what "tessellated" and "rubious" had clinched for him: he was certainly a fellow inhabitant from our distant galaxy. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
Yet despite its extent, all the surface that Bowman could see was tessellated into obviously artificia1 patterns that must have been miles on a side. From Wordnik.com. [2001 A Space Odyssey]
A tessellated fret pattern is made along the borders of the corridor floor, consisting of triple rows of smooth cubes of marble inserted in the cement. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Furniture was rudely hewn from wood and placed on floors which were generally uneven and covered with straw instead of being paved with tessellated marble. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
In the Greek tessellated pavement found at Halicarnassus, the mosaic is of very fine workmanship, being composed of small cubes of white, black and red marble. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Next to each gate stood a Shou sentry armored in a conical brass helmet and a red silk hauberk imprinted with the tessellated pattern of its plate scale lining. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
We now wended our way to one of the village inns, where we had been told to ask permission from the landlord to see the Roman tessellated pavement in his back garden. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
The rest of the foundation was open, as all that remained of the earlier building were the basal stones, in some places still covered by mosaics in tessellated patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Trail through the grass their tessellated shields. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 04: Songs in Many Keys] Reference
There he found the prostrate pine and tessellated branches, but the throne was vacant. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
The entrance-hall is very spacious, and the floor is tessellated or somehow inlaid with marble. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
For rendering, curved surfaces have to be tessellated, i.e., approximated as collections of triangles. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Haskell] Reference
In basic terms, tessellation interpolates new polygons, so the closer you get to a tessellated object, the more polygons are generated. From Wordnik.com. [Fragland :: Everything] Reference
A colorful tessellated floor -- designed in Europe -- spreads out across a 4,000-square-foot lobby walled in polished white Italian marble. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
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