The road now makes a sudden bend towards the châlet cresting the Col, and we are able in a moment to realize its tremendous position.
There are no more pointed arches; every arch is an ogee; and the crestingconsists of wavy tracery surmounted by a battlement.
This should be borne in mind in examining the cresting of the stalls as it is at present; much of it is not original either in material or design.
The cresting waves looked more like breakers of the ocean than anything we had seen on the river.
We just escaped trouble in this rapid, both boats going over a large rock with a great crestingwave below, and followed by a very rough rapid.
In the foreground, for the moment, were a long white road running through a river valley, and little fortress cities crestingrocky hills, and the black notes of the cypresses striking on a background of silver olives.
He saw them pull off in their frail dories in mists; in sharp March and April snow-squalls, and in moderately heavy breezes, when the seas were cresting and the spring rains were pelting down.
And let designers take heart when so recent and yet so picturesque an object as the so-called 'naval crown' can be produced, with its cresting of sterns and square sails of ships.
Therefore passing by other things, the abbot carefully and advisedly turned his mind towards the making of a cresting for the shrine.
For before this aforesaid mishap occurred, the cresting of the shrine was half finished, and the marble blocks whereon the shrine was to be elevated and was to rest, were for the most part ready and polished.
A flattish gable surmounts it, with a kind of tabernacle work at each end above the figures of Adam and Eve, and a cresting of crockets shaped like eighth-century crockets in a similar situation.
It is decorated with many niches and figures, and a fine cresting round the domical top.
A globe-shaped ciborium, with cresting and knop of the fourteenth century, is interesting.
The Moorish or Arabian form constantly occurs as an ornamental cresting in carved woodwork, and also appears to have suggested an ornamental form largely used with variations in eastern carpets, notably those of Turkistan.
The cresting is different in scale on the two sides (portions of it are modern insertions).
The cresting of oak-leaves is finely wrought; below it is a frieze ornamented with roses.
Some of the cresting on the north side is also new.
At the top, which is seventeen feet above the floor level, is an overhanging cornice with elaborate cresting of carved work on both sides.
This work may be used for the cresting of some large piece of furniture, or may be adapted to fill screens or partitions, stair newels, and balusters, or it may be used as a cornice decoration in the manner suggested by No.
And Marjory, cresting the knoll, thought instantly that here, indeed, was a chance of the Green Ray.
Yet as they paused at the first turn he looked back towards the two figures cresting the rise, and remarked easily to his companion that Miss Carmichael was quite a picture on the hillside, and walked like a shepherd.
The leaves of thecresting have apparently been painted white, but the circular boss in the middle of each leaf was entirely red.
It is cylindrical in form, divided into three storeys of open tracery, and crowned with a cresting of three-lobed leaves.
Immediately behind the city this cresting forms an isolated knoll, cut off at the back and ends as abruptly as along the front, and thus forming an immense table with a perfectly level top.
The slopes of this knoll are surmounted by a cresting of limestone precipice, so even and continuous round the whole circuit of the level summit that it looks from a little distance like a prodigious artificial wall.
Leaving the Chiaja by a handsome drive which has been formed by the shore, we pass the Castel del Ovo, which stands out into the sea, cresting a large rock or small island connected with the land by a mole or breakwater.
The sea lay landwards, the land seawards, and over both the nor'wester swept unrestrained, cresting green waves of heather as water with an edging of white foam or purple blossom.
The full flood-tide lapped at the furthermost scallop of seaweed on the shingly shore, and touched the sea-pinks cresting the rocks.
Then he led on slowly, and the rest of the army followed, wave upon wave, cresting the summit and descending into the villages which nestled in the hollows and recesses of the hills.
The balustrade also is replaced by the cheneau, a cresting in stone, which hereafter is found in nearly all French buildings.
In Rushton Hall (1595) the cresting of the bow windows shows the evil influence of Vredeman de Vries's pattern-book and of numerous designs by him and other Belgian artists, which were printed at the Plantin press.
The high bank conceals all behind it; but in one or two places we catch a glimpse of some settler's house, cresting the bold bluff, or half hiding in its orchards.
Except for these touches, and for the crestingalong the top, which recalls that at Winchester, the detail is all Gothic.
The third head with the crestingof fleur-de-lys may well be of rather earlier date, and the work of Sir George Vernon, the father of Dorothy.
They are Gothic in general treatment, but a little Italian carving is introduced in the cresting along the top.
The cresting along the top of this screen exactly resembles that over the screens at the sides of the choir at Winchester Cathedral, except that the latter has not a battlemented finish (Fig.
On resuming our journey, we had not proceeded a couple of miles, when on cresting a rise we came in sight of the Salisbury relief force coming out of the bush ahead of us and just entering the valley which lay between us.
And this is exactly what happened, as upon cresting the ridge we found that both Kafirs and cattle were immediately below us.
Past olive grounds and mulberry plantations, ancient towns cresting the hill-tops, cheerful farmsteads dotted here and there--these are the pictures descried from the railway.
Close around, under the very shadow of these vast promontories, cresting the borders of the Tarn and the green heights between Millau and Mende, ruined strongholds and châteaux abound.
As at the Graça it is plastered and whitewashed, but ends not in a gable but in a straight line of cresting like Batalha, though here there is no flat terrace behind, but a sloping tile roof.
But on looking closer it is found to be built up of leaf-covered curves and of buds very like those forming the cresting in the Capellas Imperfeitas.
On it stands thecresting of elaborately branched leaves, nearly six feet high.
Above the horizontal cornice is a most elaborate cresting of interlacing trefoils and leaves having in the middle the royal arms with on each side an armillary sphere.
The walls of the transept and of the transept chapel are perfectly plain, without buttresses, with but little cornice and, now at least, without a cresting or parapet.
At the top are the royal arms crowned, and above the spheres of the parapet and the crosses of the crestinganother larger cross dominates the whole front.
The cresting of green scrolls and vases is much later.
Here too the buttresses carry up the design to the top of the wall, and with the strong cornice and richcresting save it from the weakness which at Coimbra is emphasised by the irregularity of the walling above.
Lastly, as a crestingto the horizontal moulding, there is a row of urnlike objects, the only renaissance features about the whole door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cresting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
