The gilded fretwork of every temple-roof glimmered with twinkling reflections of the sacred flames.
The characteristic fretwork and carving of Netherlands New Guinea--notably that of Geelvink Bay--is clearly due to foreign influence.
For example, votive axes have the blade decorated and even often perforated, so that it comes to be an elegant fretwork axe-blade, artistic and valuable but utterly useless for material purposes.
If executed in a model miniature, the fretwork and carving would be delicate enough to form one of those Chinese toy-houses in ivory carving.
We look wonderingly at the labour expended upon the carvings of the twisted pilasters, the open fretwork of the little galleries, and the coping-stones that crown the turrets.
Amongst all this massiveness the details are not overlooked, and there are some very delicately carved niches and windows filled with fretwork to be seen high up in this dome.
The time to see the Houses of Parliament is undoubtedly at night, when Big Ben's illuminated face sheds a sort of ethereal light on the architecturalfretwork near him.
The fine fretwork of the acacia branches showed against the growing blue of the sky.
A light breeze sent westering ripples along the pools of water filling each shallow depression, and stirred the fine fretwork of an acacia set thick with little odorous puffs, sweet as a violet.
The brooch of fretwork was precisely similar to many ancient Danish brooches still preserved in the Copenhagen Museum, and this proves that the Claughton deposit was also Danish.
Although they have no remaining inscriptions, their obelisk form and ornaments of fretwork were used in common by the Norwegians, Saxons, and Danes.
How admirably he has sketched the former inmates of the South-Sea House: what "fine fretwork he makes of their double and single entries!
On the tops of these are huge stones thrown transverse, as if an earthquake had tossed them there, and behind these is a fretwork of perpendicular rocks, something like the Giant's Causeway.
In Cairo the rich fretwork of its decorations and the soft yellow hue of the stone of which it is constructed add to this beauty.
These bay-windows sometimes stud the facades thickly, now large, now small, but always a fretwork of delicate wood-carving.
No conceivable footing, you understand, except that great bare fretwork of mangrove roots clawing down into the water!
The smile was all in his eyes now and frankly mechanical still--a faint flare of mirth through a quizzical fretwork of pain.
Thereon bade he upbear the athelings' treasures, 1920 The fretwork and wrought gold.
The sea-boat he loaded, And into the ship's barm bore the bright fretwork Wæls' son.
The andarun and its fretwork galleries are on one side, and on another is what may be called a hall of audience, where the Sartip hears village business and decides cases.
It has a long gallery in front, with fretwork above the posts which support the roof, round towers at two of the corners, and many irregular roofs, and steep zigzags cut in the rock lead up to it.
The principal wife received me in a fine lofty room with fretwork windows opening on a courtyard with a fountain in it and a few pomegranates, and a crowd of Persian, Kurdish, and negro women, with all manner of babies.
Gilding, arabesques in colour, fretwork doors and panelling, and ceilings and cornices composed of small mirrors arranged so as to represent facets, are all decorative in the extreme.
The powerful glasses on Nissr showed fretwork carving everywhere; but the main outlines of the city, none the less, gave an impression of almost primitive severity.
Delicate minarets, carved into a fretwork of amazing fineness, pointed their fingers at the yellow shimmering sky.
Massive iron bars and stanchions protected the windows of the ground-floors; heavy fastenings secured the doors, whose surface was a fretwork of iron.
As I half-muttered this to myself, a dark object intervened between me and the sky, a large black disk, shutting out completely the brilliant fretwork on which I had been gazing.
Late in the day, he thought, for to accompany the stranger they had lighted a lamp; he had heard the scratch of the match, and through the brass fretwork had seen the lines of light.
He did not feel cramped at all, because the stove was so large, and air he had in plenty, as it came through the fretwork running round the top.
The reader will notice that in the examples selected from Chippendale's book there are none of those fretworktables and cabinets which are generally termed "Chippendale.
Fretwork is very rarely seen, but the carved ornament is generally a foliated or curled endive scroll; sometimes the top of a cabinet is finished in the form of a Chinese pagoda.
Chair backs consequently have the peculiar irregular lattice work which is seen in the fretwork of Chinese and Japanese ornaments, and Pagodas, Chinamen and monsters occur in his designs for cabinets.
Glancing along the beam of light that filtered through a fantastic fretwork of delicate birch twigs arching a drive, he saw a broad, bright disk hanging low above the edge of the moor.
These mosques and the towers of the richer pearl merchants show some decided architectural features, having arches of the Saracenic order, with fretwork of plaster and quaint stucco patterns.
The doors are exquisitely decorated with it, the supporting beams, and the windows, which are adorned with fretwork instead of glass.
There are two mosques of pretty architecture, with courses of dark red stone from Keneh, and white Kosseir limestone; there are also diaper and fretwork patterns; the pillars are similarly decorated and are quaint and picturesque.
Shady horse-chestnuts in all the glory of delicate foliage and fresh pink flower, show up in contrast with the towering fretwork pinnacles of the church.
No more did Mrs. Armine see, at the end of the long and narrow alley, behind the fretwork of shining, pointed leaves, the lateen sails go by.
