The main cornice has two large corbels to each bay, and carries a picturesque balustrading within which rises a tile roof covering the dome and crowned by a small lantern at the top.
Outside, the chancel has good buttresses at the angles, and is crowned by that curious boat-like corbel table seen at Santarem and by a row of pyramidal battlements.
Only the transept front has survived, robbed of its cornice and cresting, and now framed in plain pilasters and crowned by a pediment.
The tile roofs are surmounted by a low square tower crowned by a flat plastered dome at the crossing and by the domed stair turret at the south-east corner.
During the middle ages, crowned with battlements, with the spaces between the columns built up, it was later degraded by being turned into a slaughter-house, and was only cleared of such additions a few years since.
At the crossing, which is crowned by a square coffered dome, the spandrils are filled with curious winged heads, while the semi-dome of the apse is covered with narrow ribs.
At the top, in a hollow circle upheld by carved supports, crownedand bearing an orb in His left hand, is God the Father Himself.
The two apses east of the transept are of the pattern universal in Southern Europe, being divided into three equal parts by half-shafts with capitals and crowned with an overhanging corbel table.
They are divided as usual by semicircular shafts bearing good romanesque capitals, and crowned by a cornice of three small arches to each division, each cut out of one stone, and resting on corbels and on the capitals.
The large plain tower which rises east of the north transept has a top crowned with battlements, within which stands a square tile-covered spire.
This was the stone that Mary knelt upon when she was crowned Queen of Scotland.
At one end of the hill was the castle rock, crowned with the towers, and bastions, and battlemented walls of the ancient fortress.
I was devouring the crowned personage with all my eyes, and my heart almost stood still with awe.
I am called Joan the Maid, and am sent to say that the King of Heaven wills that you becrowned and consecrated in your good city of Rheims, and be thereafter Lieutenant of the Lord of Heaven, who is King of France.
There was a wide free space down the middle of the hall, and at the end of it was a throne royally canopied, and upon it sat a crowned and sceptered figure nobly clothed and blazing with jewels.
I am not a crowned head, that I should marry a woman upon her portrait, and by proxy.
They looked, and there, bathed in the glory of the sinking sun, saw the mountains crowned far, far away with the impregnable city and fortress of Masyaf, and below it the slopes down which they had ridden for their lives.
Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything.
This was in the autumn of 1789, when Paine witnessed the scenes that ushered in the "crowned republic," from which he hoped so much.
The repast was elegant, but the General's company crowned the whole.
What is now most needed is delay, and, that secured, diversion of national rage from the individual Louis to the universal anti-republican Satan inspiring the crowned heads of Europe.
However, none of this yet appeared, and Paine glided flower-crowned in his beautiful barge, smoothly toward his Niagara rapids.
The crowned heads of Europe are sinking their differences for a time and consulting about this imprisoned brother.
The importance of his trial is that there is a conspiracy of "crowned brigands" against the liberties not only of France, but of all nations, and there is ground for suspecting that Louis XVI.
Not content with the easy victories which fall in the tiltyard to the crowned king, Edward was anxious to show that his triumphs belonged to the knight and not to the monarch, and more than once jousted victoriously in disguise.
The rocky height, crownedwith a triple wall, and looking down on the vineyards and cornfields of the Garonne, defied for weeks the skill of the eminent Lorrainer engineers who directed Charles of Valois' siege train.
Edmund's Sicilian monarchy vanished into nothing, when, early in 1258, Manfred was crowned king at Palermo.
He was buried with the state that became a crowned king in the Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Peter, Gloucester.
Charles was released, but he straightway made his way to Rome, where Nicholas absolved him from his oath andcrowned him King of Sicily.
A few weeks later, on September 24, Balliol was crowned King of Scots at Scone by the Bishop of Dunkeld.
If his generosity verged on extravagance, and his affectation of popular manners and graciousness on unreality, Englishmen of the fourteenth century were no severe critics of a crowned king.
Edward's ambition was to take Reims, and have himself crowned there as King of France.
The support of the two bishops enabled Bruce to be crowned on March 25 at Scone.
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Several mountains crowned with snow shone brilliantly in the distance, contrasting their brightness with others, which, thrown into shade, assumed deep tints of purple and violet.
His surprise, therefore, equalled his delight at finding that, after all, it seemed probable that their search was likely to be crowned with success.
The summit of the rock was divided by a deep chasm into two peaks, each of which was crowned with strong works, and capable of separate defence.
The Genius of History, which has everywhere crowned our arms, announces peace to Colombia.
Had I but slain him, I had gone on high, Crownedwith eternal glory!
Her dress looked brilliant, being of a silvery texture; the trimming was composed of small fern-leaves; a parure of fine diamonds crowned her head.
She knew that her vengeance had failed--that she had simply crowned Lord Arleigh's life with the love of a devoted wife.
Even on Jubilee Day, when her presence crowned the superbest procession England ever saw, she looked immeasurably more like a mighty mother of her martial sons than like a majestic monarch in the midst of her exulting subjects.
Ultimately an ambulance arrived, and this chivalrous Transvaaler crowned the helpfulness of that eventful hour by tenderly lifting the crippled Australian on to a stretcher, with an expression of hope that he would soon be well again.
Yet in every department of life he that contendeth for the mastery is never permanently crownedunless he contend lawfully.
His path was strewn with flowers, blessings were called down upon his head, and beautiful girls, dressed in white and the national colours, led his horse and crowned him with laurel.
On the 8th of October the writer of these bloodthirsty addresses was crowned as Jacques the First, Emperor of Hayti.
She wore a handsome but faded dress, and the somewhat high-crowned cap bespoke a love of former fashions.
Many long years have sped, And dimmed in dust the crowned and laureled head, But thou--thou speakest still, though numbered with the dead.
It is a finished and splendid column, crowned with its full glory.
There was the little red brick turret which crowned the village church, and my eye rested lovingly upon it.
Thou, Bourbon Neapolitan, Crowned scandal, loathed of God and man And thou, fell Spider of the North!
Where the doomed victim in his cell Had counted o'er the weary hours, Glad school-girls, answering to the bell, Came crowned with flowers.
No more with the beasts of burden, No more with stone and clod, But crowned with glory and honor In the image of God!
But most, as now, When harvest covers thy surrounding lands, I love thee, with a coronal of sheaves Crowned regent of the day; And on the air thy placid breathing leaves A scent of corn and hay.
Moreover Franklin's undertakings were generally crowned with a success which justifies us in saying that, however much or little exertion he visibly put forth, at least he put forth enough.
If, on the other hand, its achievements are considered, it appears crowned with the distinction of substantial, repeated, sometimes brilliant successes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crowned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: peaked; plumed; tipped
