In very many cases it is desired to form square heads to openings of greater span than it is convenient to obtain lintels for in one piece, and some form of flat arch must therefore be adopted.
Two or three pipes can be used for a lintel over the opening into the flue if regular iron lintels are not available.
Some of the gates without lintels are beautiful, and the geometric patterns in the walls extremely effective.
The meaning of the symbolism is explained by the blood of the lamb, which was struck upon the lintels of the doors of the houses of the Israelites in Egypt at the Passover (Gen.
The custom of placing a cross over the doorway of a Christian building may be traced back to the sixth century in Palestine, where the Chi-Rho monogram occurs on the lintels of the doorways of the houses.
The spaces between the lintels were closed by slabs of stone which retained the form of the original wooden cofferings, being hollowed by stepped lacunae, diminishing in size.
Other peculiarities here noticeable are windows framed by lintels and jambs of enormous blocks, and rounded battlements above a projecting cornice.
Their stepped jambs are decorated upon the inner side with reliefs; the heavy lintels have a scotia cornice, carved with a triple row of leaves and bordered below by an astragal.
The large blocks, cut with flint chisels, are of a soft stone that is soon damaged by weather; and the cornices and lintels are beams of a very hard wood, yet not so hard but that insects bore into it.
Indeed this complicated and grotesque carving on walls, door-posts, and lintels was one of the first things to attract the attention of the Spaniards in Mexico.
And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
The stick lintels occur only in the central portion; the windows and doorways of the other portions of the ruin, some fine examples of which remain, are always finished with stone lintels and sometimes with stone jambs.
The lintels of the openings in the central part are formed of round sticks, about 3 inches in diameter, matched, and bound together with withes.
Up and down Glen Shira went the Diarmaids, seeking the brewing-cave, giving hut and home to the flame, and making black hearths and low lintels for the women away in the sheilings.
The German women have been for a thousand years looking at grotesque and leering or coarse and malignant gargoyles carved everywhere,--on the gateways of their cities, in their churches, on the very lintels of their houses.
Seeing our eager scenting of the old carvings on lintels and sills, and overhearing our mention of the name of the Duchess of Gordon, she made bold to address us.
One can still see in the old churches of Borgund and Hitterdal much of the carved woodwork of the seventh and eighth centuries; and lintels and porches full of national character are to be found in Thelemarken.
In the first or Egyptian Passover the blood was sprinkled on the lintels and doorposts of the houses, but afterwards on the altar.
Arches or lintels are, therefore, thrown from pier to pier, and a level preparation for carrying the real roof is made above them.
Lintels are usually of wood, and when plastering is carried down over these some form of key must of course be provided to hold it.
Where lintels occur, they are to be tailed in at least 9 in.
Lintels are usually of wood well tailed into the wall and resting on a wood pad placed crosswise.
Lintels and heads must be well and solidly bedded in mortar, at proper heights.
The lintels of the doors and windows and of the cupboards and other recesses are put in as the work advances (allowance being made for their settling), bedding them on cross pieces, and the walls being carried up solid.
Schultz places lintels and relieving arches over all the doors.
The woodenlintels have rotted away or have been removed by the Arabs.
At Qṣair ‘Amrah straight lintels are the rule for doors and windows, but over the architrave of the wide door leading into the audience chamber there is a shallow relieving arch.
The stone lintelsare not carried through to the inner side of the arch.
Perhaps the most noteworthy contrast is seen in the sills and lintels of the openings.
There was but one man present at this house-building, whose grudgingly performed duty consisted of lifting the larger roof beams and lintels into place and of giving occasional assistance in the heavier work.
The lintels of the windows and doors were now looked into, and the fireplace dismantled and searched.
Notwithstanding the fact that the poor woman still lay unburied, the parlors and lower hall were filled with people, who stared at the walls and rapped with wary but eager knuckles on the various lintels and casements.
Carved lintels and door-posts were common, and statues frequently adorned the court and approaches.
The jambs in some instances and the lintels in others are of split sticks, the surfaces of which are fibrous and were evidently not split by means of iron implements.
As the jambs, sills, and lintels were built hard and fast in the mortar, evidently both door openings and windows were constructed when the corresponding wall was built.
Over the lintels of old houses adjoining, still remain the pious invocations and quaint devices originally sculptured there for the purpose of averting the baleful glance of the Evil Eye.
Picture: Old Inscription, Lady Stair’s House] Nothing is more characteristic of the Old Town than the religious texts carved upon the stone doorlintels of these ancient houses.
One of these palaces, having stone lintels finely sculptured, is still partly standing, but so decayed that we could do nothing with it.
The two high reliefs which follow are also lintels from a small ruined edifice at the foot of the pyramid, of great interest and marvellous richness of detail, than which nothing at Palenque is so minute.
The lintelsover the doorways were formed of huge blocks of stone from 16 feet to 18 feet.
The doors are square at the top and the lintels consist of three or four pieces of wood.
The wooden lintelshave been removed, the projecting cornice has fallen; but above it the walls were covered with ornamentation in high relief of infinite skill and magnificence, which, alas!
The interior of each consists of two or three narrow passages running on a parallel line on the sides and abutting on the front corridor, with large openings and wooden lintels beautifully sculptured.
The lintels over the doorways of the gallery have disappeared; they were of red zapote wood, and their impress is unmistakable.
At Uxmal, all the lintels over the doorways are of wood, of which a large proportion is in a perfect state of preservation--a clear proof of their recent period.
Some look so new and so clean, their wooden lintels so perfect, that they do not seem to have been built more than twenty years.
Remains of wooden lintels and zapote wood are still found in the walls.
In this monument and in the second palace are found for the first time lintels of stone, nearly all in very good preservation.
Now in the Yucatec ruins the cornices and lintels of the doorways, of zapote wood, were exposed to the open air.
Some of these small palaces are in a perfect state of preservation, but by far the greater proportion, the lintels of which have disappeared, are a ruinous heap.
At the time of my visit Menché was supposed to lie within the Guatemalan frontier, and a few years later leave was obtained for me from the Government of that Republic to remove some other carved lintels from the ruins.
In this house, and in most of the other buildings still standing, stonelintels span the doorways, many of them elaborately carved on the underside.
Naturally the bronze and timber lintels have disappeared, while in but a single instance have the explorers found one of stone, namely that discovered by George Smith at the entrance to a hall in the palace of Sennacherib (Fig.
These lintels and jambs must have been, like the Borsippa threshold, of massive bronze, or they would soon have been crushed by the weight they had to support.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lintels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
