The exterior was extremely plain; the interior, on the contrary, was resplendent with incrustations of veined marble and with sumptuous decorations in glass mosaic (called opus Grecanicum) on a blue or golden ground.
The mihrâb niche is particularly rich in its minutely carved incrustations and mosaics, and a dome ingeniously formed by intersecting ribs covers the sanctuary before it.
These traditions the architects of the new style appropriated in a measure, as in the marble incrustations of the exquisite little church of +S.
The chief departures from early precedent were in the exterior, which was embellished with marble incrustations as in S.
Forms continuous pink incrustations of considerable extent on stones and rocks at low-water mark.
When young this species forms bright-red incrustations over shells and stones; later it rises into irregular lobes and tubular prominences.
This species forms calcareous incrustations on shells or pebbles.
A portion of it also below the village of San Vignone consists of incrustations of long vegetable tubes, and may be called tufa.
The Great Geyser rises out of a spacious basin at the summit of a circular mound composed of siliceous incrustations deposited from the spray of its waters.
Cosma and Damianus, the walls of the building were covered with incrustations of the time of Septimius Severus representing the wolf and other profane emblems.
Each of the sarcophagi was broken into a hundred pieces; the mosaics of the walls and ceiling had been wrenched from their sockets, cube by cube, the marble incrustations torn off, the altar dismantled, the bones dispersed.
The church itself is a tolerable structure of the Renaissance--costly marble incrustations and mosaics, meaningless Neapolitan frescoes.
Hanging our lamps to the incrustationson the columns, the grove of Stalactites became faintly lighted up, disclosing a scene of extraordinary wildness and beauty.
Condamine and Drouilly) in the subcutaneous connective tissue, causing effusions of blood under the scurf skin and incrustations of dried blood on the surface.
More frequently they become covered at the edges or throughout by firm incrustations resulting from the drying of the liquids thrown out, and the skin becomes increasingly thick and rigid.
Aquilino, which is very ancient, and covered with incrustations of marble and stucco, very well preserved, with some large tombs of granite.
The salt made during the first two weeks is not so good, being usually stained by the rust at the bottom whereincrustations have not yet adhered.
In this manner theincrustations fall from the bottom; if they are not cleared off, the salt would have to be made more slowly over a fiercer fire, which requires more brine and burns the plates of the caldron.
They soon produce small nipple-like incrustations upon the twigs, their bodies being apparently glued, by means of a transparent liquor, which goes on increasing to the end of March, so as to form a cellular texture.
These incrustations or deposits are, however, sometimes so abundant, and the resulting stony matters so hard that buildings may be constructed with them.
The incrustations on vegetable and animal substances are vulgarly called petrifactions, as the organic fibres are replaced by stone.
The stone with which the town of Pasti, in Italy, is built has been called pipe-stone by the Italians; and it has apparently derived its origin from incrustations upon large reeds.
The incrustations of carbonate of lime upon the ground, or the pendulous conical pieces called stalactites, attached to the roofs of caverns, are so called.
Calcareous tuf consists of similar incrustations made by petrifying rivulets running over mud, sand, vegetable remains, &c.
For some time past, likewise, various crystal articles have been exhibited in the market with coloured enamel-figures on their surface, or with white incrustations of a silvery lustre in their interior.
Lest incrustations of salt should at any time tend to obstruct the tubes, a pipe should be inserted within them, and connected with a steam boiler, so as to blow steam through them occasionally.
The transference of heat is often greatly hindered by incrustations of the tubes, which incrustationsgenerally conduct heat very badly.
Soon afterwards we came on other shallow half dry salt-water creeks, the dry parts of which were covered with thick incrustations of salt, some of which we collected.
Its appearance was quite new and wonderful to me, who had been so busily employed in scraping theincrustations full of mud from the dry beds of the creeks.
Occasionally they are found adorned with beautiful incrustations of the purest white, formed by springs of carbonate of lime, originating in the rocky walls of limestone around.
Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.
A cellular calc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.
In arid lands where ground water is drawn by capillarity to the surface and there evaporates, it leaves as surface incrustations the minerals held in solution.
White limy incrustationsof this nature cover considerable tracts in northern Mexico.
I put in it first some limy incrustations with which certain springs in my neighborhood cover the dead clumps of rushes.
If I see a gleaming resin floor, with incrustations of gravel, the thing is settled: I have a Resin-bee's nest.
Still, there is a massive grandeur in the outline of his features which cannot be destroyed by incrustations of clay, although his complexion is obscured by it.
The old realities of God and the faith and the Church were with them still, in this village, he reminded himself; it was only the incrustations of error that had been removed.
He welcomed the effect but not the rise of the Reformation, and rejoiced that the incrustations of error had been removed from the lantern of the faith.
In the valley between these, incrustations of nearly pure salt are often found, covering the surface to a great extent, in the manner of thin ice, and causing it to appear when seen from a distance, as if covered with snow.
In order that the traveler may make such passage without any danger, the chiefs have a spear called quiap, much larger than ordinary spears with incrustations of silver along the shaft, and the lower end of metal.
The still and apparently unchangeable incrustations at Mammoth Hot Springs, were looked upon on our final visit without awe or surprise.
The constant outpour causes a constant lifting of the pool and of the incrustations about it.
It may not be amiss to suggest some solution of the problems under which the silicious incrustations are produced and the active geysers act.
With the small mattock in his right hand, he would loosen the fine mineral earth lodged in the cavity within which he worked, as occasion required, or else detach the metallic incrustations lining its sides.
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