The sill of the west window is about fifteen feet from the ground, and from it three tall lancets about four feet wide rise to a height of nearly thirty feet.
The three lancets at the west are the work of Messrs.
The screens to the gallery before the clerestory lancets have a main arch in each bay, with dog-tooth moulding, divided into three by Purbeck marble shafts placed the width of the window apart.
Scott to erect in its stead the more appropriate tier oflancets that now take its place.
In the transept end the screens before the three lancets of the clerestory are of the usual form, but are adapted to their graduated heights, and there are small additional arches, one at each side.
The ceilings should be noticed, and also the early lancetsat the west end.
Henceforward that kindly demi-god would be connected in their minds with great gorgings and the vaccine and lancets of a paternal Government.
Half a dozen hasty knives cut away the thongs, and the man crawled to Chinn, who pocketed his case of lancets and tubes of lymph.
Previously, each bay of the church had been lighted by a single lancet; now two lancetssurmounted by an oculus were used, which added much dignity to the exterior aspect of the edifice.
As the light floods in from the big lancets in the side walls, one scarcely notices that this church has ground supports.
The other lancets of the cathedral are in most part XIII-century work of the closely woven pattern type that produces scintillation; contrary to the more general usage the medallions are to be read from the top downward.
The other two lancets are of the Biblia Pauperum type.
In the roses of the two bays neighboring the central lancets are the Liberal Arts and virtues contrasted with vices.
Poitiers Cathedral is a spacious hall-church illuminated by large lancets that seem to be chanting Alleluias, yet whose piety is plain and robust.
Champagne was the first to use the pier composed of twin columns, first to employ a passageway round the church at the level of the aisle windows, and to place lancets side by side in each bay for the better lighting of the edifice.
Le Mans' lancets show the same robes, the same borders of medallions as in the Suger lights at Chartres.
And so on and so on - quick-poured showman's patter, sauced in the Bhil hunting-proverbs and tales of their own brand of coarse humour till the lancets were blunted and both operators worn out.
When the fly is about to wound, the two horny antennae are made to embrace the part, the lancets are unsheathed, and on the instant the incision is performed.
Under the microscope these four lancets differ in thickness, two are very thick, the third is slender, but the fourth, of an opal colour and almost transparent, is exceedingly fine.
It contains three pointed and cusped lancets on each side, and is without buttresses.
Button release lancets were sold in the late 19th century for slightly more than lever release lancets.
Other lancets have been found with these initials but so far no manufacturer has been traced.
In the eighteenth century, delicate mechanical spring lancets and scarificators were invented to replace the simpler thumb lancets and fleams.
These lancets were probably typical of the lancets advertised as silver in the late nineteenth-century trade catalogs.
It consisted of a metal syringe provided with a plate of lancets that screwed on to a glass tube with a protuberance for collecting blood.
The cases in which the lancets and scarificators were carried were covered with leather, despite the fact that several appeared to be covered with paper.
Even Hippocrates had cautioned bloodletters not to use the different size lancets indiscriminately, "for there are certain parts of the body which have a swift current of blood which it is not easy to stop.
These tiny and delicate thumb lancets were often carried in small flat cases of silver, tortoise shell, shagreen, or leather with hinged tops and separate compartments for each lancet.
Lancets are made of brass and have steel lever releases.
The first case, made of tortoise shell, contains four thumb lancets (with tortoise shell sheaths).
He is bathed in blood flowing from innumerable wounds made by the knives and lancets of various horse-flies (Tabanus, L.
What would you think of any large animal that should come to attack you with a tremendous apparatus of knives and lancets issuing from its mouth?
An instrument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.
They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin.
Above them, again, is a group of three small lancets graduated to the gable and placed very high, with a string-course below them.
But if the doorways are plainer, the great lancets above are much richer, on this side than on the other.
Over these two arches is a bold cornice, which possibly once supported a ceiling, and the blind storey above shows in each wall two pairs of plain lancets with the impost-moulding continued as a string, and with a passage behind.
The windows are not splayed, and those which now look into the aisles are unglazed, and their flanking lancets are of unequal width.
Eight years later he acquired the Comte of Chartres, and lent his powerful aid to the work, giving the great rose window in the north transept and the five lancets below it, as well as other windows.
It seems to me not unlikely that this latter event is marked by the gift of the north rose and the lancets below, which contain St. Louis's own arms and those of his mother.
At the foot of the lancets on either side are portraits of himself, his wife, Alix de Thouars, and his son and daughter, all kneeling.
The seven great lancets of the apse are given up to the glorification of the Virgin, the especial patroness of Chartres.
Five of the seven great lancets of the clerestory of the apse are devoted to the glorification of the Virgin Mother, or perhaps one should say, to the fact of the Virgin Birth.
The finest grisaille windows in England or, for that matter, in the world, are the five immense lancets which fill the end of the north transept of York Minster and are known as "the Five Sisters.
The backgrounds of theselancets are alternately red and blue, and Pharaoh's should have been blue, but it represents the Red Sea, and the artist has had to get out of the difficulty by making it a kind of maroon purple.
The rose and lancets opposite show the fulfilment.
The great rose window of the south transept and the lancets below it are the gift of Pierre Mauclerc, Count of Dreux and Duke of Brittany.
The windows of the twelfth century had been huge single lights, but the thirteenth century had seen the gradual evolution of tracery, beginning with the grouping of lancets in pairs under a rose light above.
In the north front, the shafts of the five sisters and of the five lancets above them are alternately marble and stone.
The glass in the lancets above the five sisters is modern.
It is a great piece of good fortune, also, that the five vast lancets of the north transept end, known as the five sisters, still keep their beautiful original glass.
Also notice that the east rose is glazed flush with the stonework, thus presenting a level surface on the inside, while just below, in marked contrast, the three lancets are deeply recessed within.
These fill the seven tall windows of two lancets each, which light the eastern chapel and are dated 1520.
Each has four large lancets and is a remarkable example of the highly-developed canopy type of the middle of the fifteenth century.
This church also boasts of a fine rose window in the north transept, which is rendered even more effective by the gallery of lancets beneath it.
There are, however, a few available for this purpose, notably the three eastern lancets of the Lady Chapel in the Abbey Church at Fecamp, and a certain window in the north transept of Amiens Cathedral.
The glass that attracts us most is in the transept rose windows, the lancetsbelow them and in the very brilliant western rose.
The treatment of all these lancetsis alike: the enframing canopy encloses three tiers of niches, one above the other, in each of which is a little scene in colour.
Below the Rose, four of the lancets show Evangelists borne on the shoulders of Prophets.
These rose windows seem thrust too high up against the roof; in fact, if it were not for the row of lancets below, the effect would be unpleasant.
In the two great rose windows which decorate the transept ends, and in the double row of lancets below each, there is excellent glass of this period.
The cathedral is a noble example of Gothic, the spacious nave being separated from the choir by two transepts, each of which possesses a fine rose window of the fourteenth century with a gallery of small lancets below.
In the vestry, which is off the north aisle, are three small lancets upon which appear figures against quarry backgrounds not as usual ensconced in canopies.
Upon the four lancets of the northern window appear large figures displaying much more freedom of drawing.
Holy Trinity (Goodram Gate) has a large east window dating from about 1470, whose five roomy lancets contain single figures in the upper canopies and groups within the lower ones.
Across that entire end of the spacious hall is a great window occupying the whole upper half of the wall, and broken up into nine wide lancets surmounted by tracery lights of the usual Perpendicular form.
The most interesting and pleasing of all the windows is the large one of three lancets on the north side of the choir showing fourteen scenes from the life of St. Bernard, six in the central lancet, and four in each of the side ones.
The nine lancets in the large east window permit the introduction of three pictures above, each spreading over three lancets, and the same number below.
He lies recumbent along the bottom of three of the five lancets which compose the window, while above, in compartments formed by the convolutions of the vine, are his descendants.
These windows each contain four lancets surmounted by tracery lights, and in each lancet is a coloured figure framed in an unusually lofty canopy--in fact the latter is three times as high as the figure it encloses.
The lancetseach contain two figures, one above the other.
The side lancets are not so satisfactorily filled, for the combination of strips of later glass separated by equally wide ones of old grisaille, and all surrounded by a rich old border on ruby and blue backgrounds, is not pleasing.
As a result of this careful treatment of tint and drawing there is derived an unexpectedly satisfactory result from the collection of figures in canopies assembled in the five tall lancets of the east window.
Thirteenth Century medallions in the tall lancets below] YORK To one approaching York by road, especially if coming by way of Scarcroft Hill, the ancient appearance of the town seems to translate it out of the Middle Ages.
Of these two ample embrasures, the easterly one is the larger, having five lancets surmounted by elaborate tracery lights, while its neighbour in the north wall has but fourlancets with traceries of more modest design.
The Lady chapel itself is finely illuminated by five large windows of five lancets each containing figure and canopy work.
We do not recommend that the lancets narrow and broad should be used indiscriminately in all cases, for there are certain parts of the body which have a swift current of blood which it is not easy to stop.
Within the building note (1) the three lancets at the E.
The chancel windows arelancets with foliated heads and interior foliations.
White doctors had sharp lancets to draw blood, scalpels to cut into sick people's bodies, saws to cut off infected limbs.
A singular effect is produced in the third stage from the top by the lancets being divided in the centre by the main shaft that rises from the ground at the angles of the tower.
The arrangement of the lancets at the east end is even more effective within than without.
Mary's Church, where the rough masonry and plain lancets are wholly unlike the beautiful work in the west porch.
In the next stage the lancets are five in number, the central one being the tallest, while above the outer ones are trefoiled niches; and there are two six-foils below the next string-course.
The upper stage has three lancets of equal height, which give light to the space above the stone-groined roof, with a small trefoiled arch, unglazed, and half of another on each side.
The lancets in the west face are all cinquefoiled, and the three lower tiers here have trefoils in the spandrels.
In the centre, in the lowest stage, are three broad lancets of equal height, divided by shafts, and with deep mouldings, and with two sets of dogtooth all round.
In the upper tier the lancets are trefoiled, with dogtooth in the moulding; in the next lower tier the lancets are cinquefoiled, with two sets of dogtooth.
Of the three largelancets in the west window the central one is slightly more lofty than the others.
The lancets here are deeper than on the sides of the porch, and were probably designed to hold figures.
The arches of the window and lancets are highly enriched with carving.
That which is generally seen is only the case of those instruments which are intended to pierce our skin and suck our blood, and in which they are held, as lancets and other instruments are held in a surgeon's case.
It is no sooner born than it thinks of feeding, and buries itself in the meat with the aid of the hooks and lancets with which it is provided.
Above this again is a band of quatrefoils at the foot of the gable, which is filled with double couplets of lancets with quatrefoils above their heads; and in the upper spandrils is a quatrefoiled aureole.
A triplet window is in the lower stage, three-light windows with quatrefoil heads occupying the second, while the third has an arcade of six lancets below a floriated circle flanked by sunk panels and quatrefoils.
In the lower stage is a triple lancet; there is a group of three two-light windows in the story above, and in the upper one an arcade of four lancets grouped under a comprising arch with a quatrefoil in the head.
The triplelancets of the clerestory occur in pairs between flying buttresses with tall finials; below these, in the aisles, are two two-light windows, divided by lesser buttresses terminating in gables.
Over this arcade is the large west window, a triplet of lancets with slender shafts and chevron ornament.
Lancets (a) Christ, and below, Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac.
Lancets (a) Six medallions in which appear two pairs of Apostles, and, below, Furriers and Drapers.
The Lancets of this window contain four more Apostles, like the last, and The Rose, a portrait of the same munificent Canon.
Lancets (a) The Death, Assumption and Crowning of the Virgin.
Lancets (a) The Virgin enthroned, and the escutcheon of Regnault de Mouçon, the bishop.
It has at the extremityof its muzzle two sharp beak-like incisors, like the lancets of a surgeon.
The hinges on the west door here are very good, and the windows in the aisles--lancets with seven cusps in the head--are quite worth notice.
Here there are two simple trefoiled lancets with a shallow buttress between them, and a circular window above in each bay.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lancets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
