They are sometimes in pairs, threes, fives, or sevens, with a generaldripstone extending over all.
The dripstone shows a rude kind of foliage, on which are placed at intervals medallions containing animals, &c.
The lights are placed under an arch or dripstone with the "eye" solid.
Square-headed windows are not uncommon, but sometimes in these cases there is an arch or a dripstone in the form of an arch over the window.
Binkerd and others as to the age of the Mammoth Cave, judging by the alleged slow growth of dripstone in a locality where there is now no growth at all.
The dripstone of the window terminates in two carved heads.
The five graduated windows of the upper range have double shafts on each side, and the connected dripstone over the lower range ends in carved heads.
It is of the Early English period and has a dripstone ending in a bishop's and a female head.
Semicircular chapels in the aisles break the monotony of the lower portion of the exterior; while the upper is rendered less severe by the pointed clerestory windows, a dripstone and string-course, and a good cornice.
Slipping like an eel through a narrow opening between two columns, where the dripstone had all but closed the way into another chamber, he would have escaped observation entirely had it not been for his betraying torch-light.
The dripstone sections of their capitals are therefore unnecessary and ridiculous.
But take the inner line; it is a dripstone at Salisbury.
This protection, in its most usual form, is a mere dripstone moulding carried over or round the head of the aperture.
Only one portion of Gentry Cave has received a deposit of dripstone and even that is of limited extent, and located at the end of a narrow slippery passage between high, slippery walls.
Fox, but is so nearly filled up with dripstone that only crawling room remains.
To one side of this room is a most daintily beautiful alcove so profusely decorated with fragile forms of dripstone that a passage through it without causing damage is extremely difficult.
It is a mass of dripstone resting on a limestone base reserved from the ancient excavation to receive it, and on careful inspection the perpendicular lines, observed on the front, are found to be a set of rather large organ pipes.
The four towards the south are of three lights, but the east window has five lights and is set higher in the wall, while its dripstone terminates at one end in a grotesque sitting figure.
Though of limestone, this small lancet window, with its arch and dripstone trefoiled, is apparently of the thirteenth century, and an early example of its class.
The upper arch is enriched with the chevron, and its dripstone with two rows of the round billet arranged chequerwise and with a moulding composed of a series of little crosses, rather suggestive of the dog-tooth.
Those that flank the portal have each a large niche at the bottom, with engaged shafts, and the head and dripstone trefoiled.
In the above-mentioned wall is an Early English doorway, with a dripstone adorned with the nailhead moulding.
The east window is broad, finely arched, and surmounted by a bolddripstone terminating in heads.
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