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Example sentences for "century work"

  • This is all conventional in character, and entirely like thirteenth-century work.

  • The church is a round-arched building throughout, but the mouldings and details everywhere show a knowledge of thirteenth-century work, and have none of the character of true Romanesque or Lombard art.

  • The doors are very good specimens of fifteenth-century work.

  • In the walls of the principal church are fragments of sixth-century work.

  • Cassiano, has two figures on brackets between the windows of the first floor, apparently late eleventh-century work.

  • All the vaults are domical, and those of the nave spring from corbels carved in the style of Venetian fifteenth-century work.

  • Andrea is the best, apparently twelfth-century work, as are the three apses at the eastern end.

  • We are slipping into the thirteenth century again; the temptation is terrible to feeble minds and tourist natures; but a great mass of twelfth and eleventh-century work remains to be seen and felt.

  • The dome lacks proportion and is of the over-done style of French eighteenth-century work.

  • The great portal is a most elaborate example of early twelfth-century work, on which are rudely sculptured knights engaging in deadly combat, scriptural subjects and imitations of Roman bas-reliefs with Latin inscriptions.

  • This eleventh-century work is one of the few things which can with truth be said to be in excellent preservation.

  • The triforium, which is early thirteenth-century work, is strikingly singular.

  • The lower portions of the towers and the eastern termination are fourteenth-century work; the spires themselves, fifteenth.

  • The old fireplaces and recessed ovens are pronounced by experts to be genuine fourteenth-century work.

  • At Walsingham there is a large inn containing remains of fourteenth-century work, called the Black Lion.

  • Close by a fine series of English coats of arms of the fourteenth century, which are excellent examples of Heraldry, is placed a fragment of a broad border probably of late twelfth-century work.

  • The building above the second story is probably fifteenth-century work.

  • Its features are of fifteenth-century work, and the building is in good preservation.

  • The part within the roof of the church is apparently of transition date; the upper part, with the large pointed windows, is probably of fifteenth-century work.

  • They look like twelfth-century work, but it is possible they may be even earlier.

  • In this transept is the altar of St. Romain, a seventeenth-century work of little pretensions.

  • As a fifteenth-century work, it merits special mention.

  • Mainly, the present structure is thirteenth-century work, with a lady-chapel of the fourteenth century.

  • Lo, the patron of all sorts of smiths, a seventeenth-century work of Piola.

  • In the tower is the old bell which used to summon the Grand Council; it is of seventeenth-century work, and was presented to the Bank by the Republic of Holland.

  • But, as a Frenchman observed to us, if it had not been for all this nineteenth-century work, the present generation would never have seen the castle of Falaise.

  • Though begun at the above date, most of the Cathedral is of twelfth and early thirteenth-century work.

  • The Salle Capitular is a grand example of early sixteenth-century work, with a Plateresque frieze and gilt artesonado ceiling by Francisco de Lara.

  • The church of Locmariaquer is a fine twelfth-century work, but the foundation of the little town lies much farther back in antiquity than this.

  • It is in many respects a remarkable fifteenth-century work.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brave fellow; century after; century ago; century and; century before; century church; century date; century earlier; century glass; century later; century literature; century onwards; century work; fourth voyage; front view; great statesman; haue written; march upon; more easily; pagan temple; remember correctly; speak them; sweet song; tight place; vast variety; working class