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Example sentences for "mouldings"

Lexicographically close words:
mouldered; mouldering; moulders; mouldiness; moulding; moulds; mouldy; moullah; moult; moulted
  1. The planking was a cedar-coloured wood, and all the arches and mouldings were finished like cabinet-work, so that it was both handsome and durable.

  2. The partitions and walls were of wainscot-work, with mouldings about the doors and windows.

  3. These mouldings were all cut by hand from solid wood.

  4. String-course=, a projecting line of mouldings running horizontally along the face of a building, frequently under the windows.

  5. The traceries were at first, however, restored in their complete form, as the holes for the bolts which fastened the bases of their shafts are still to be seen in the window-sills, as well as the marks of the inner mouldings on the soffits.

  6. The inner mouldings of the arches exhibit the "dog-tooth" ornamentation of their period.

  7. Study the mouldings of the arch with the four rows of images that adorn them.

  8. I will not contradict you; but what is really attractive is the scheme of ideas expressed by the figures in the hollow mouldings of the arch of this portal, based on an equilateral triangle.

  9. The wainscoting and the cornice were white, relieved with fillets and mouldings of burnished gold.

  10. Brick arches and piers are partly cut into mouldings and clustered shafts, while angel paintings over the rib-vaulted roof have been restored with care.

  11. But the whole of the arcade work and mouldings in the interior of these transepts belongs to William of Sens, with the sole exception of the lower windows.

  12. The mouldings are the same as in the choir, but the effect of their arrangement is richer.

  13. These mouldings contain the history of Adam and Eve.

  14. Their mouldings are very complex and deep, and are varied with dog-tooth and billet ornament.

  15. The mouldings of the shafts have a slenderness and delicacy characteristic of the whole of the choir and the vestibule.

  16. The arcading above the door is wholly Purbeck, with dog-tooth mouldings of stone.

  17. The mouldings of their arches are broad and bold, and are supported by five shafts with capitals.

  18. All the mouldings of this arcade are very delicate.

  19. The mouldings are as elaborate and as carefully subordinated as in the earlier work of the nave.

  20. In the clerestory of the north transept there are large dog-tooth mouldings between the Purbeck marble shafts wanting in the south transept.

  21. All the mouldings are of the same character.

  22. The outside mouldings of the window run straight up through the outside mouldings of the arch, and are cut short by the ribs of the vault.

  23. The mouldings of the main arches also are broader than on the nave, and the clusters of the piers bolder.

  24. The wall between the outer mouldings of the window and the boundaries of the choir is filled with shallow niches, two rows to each side and four niches to each row.

  25. This inter-penetration of mouldings is found also on the aisle side of the main piers of the choir, and is more characteristic of later German Gothic than of English.

  26. The outer mouldings of the main arches are cut short by the small outer vaulting shafts.

  27. The mouldings round the head are richly ornamented, and two twisted columns stand on each side of the door.

  28. Unfortunately a slanting groove has been cut through the upper mouldings of it.

  29. Two of these have, however, been removed, and modern Norman windows constructed on the old mouldings have taken their place.

  30. In the South transept are octagonal pillars without capitals, so that the mouldings of the archivolt run into them, and in the East wall is a piscina cut in granite, ogee-headed and trefoiled with a shelf across it.

  31. The mouldings and canopies of the North porch and West door are crocketed, finialed and pinnacled, and are deserving of considerable notice.

  32. The intersecting mouldings on them are the very last style of Gothic work and exemplify the beginning of a more florid taste.

  33. A single arch, the mouldings of which are surmounted by carved heads, spans each group.

  34. A dozen steps, narrowing as they approach the portal, lead up to the door which is surrounded by four good round arches with scroll mouldings of simple design.

  35. The undercutting of the mouldings in the arches is very marvellous, the lowest course is formed of detached figures hanging downwards and from a little distance off looks like a piece of lacework.

  36. A shell had just grazed the elaborate facade, shaving ornaments and mouldings off it.

  37. As a fact, the wagon was hurrying away with furniture and picture-frame mouldings under fire.

  38. The choir is a hundred and forty years later than the nave, ornate Early English, with a multiplication of lancet-windows which rich hood-mouldings group into twos and threes, and at the east end into seven.

  39. Over all broods a stone vault, divided across and diagonally by the chevron-mouldings of heavy vaulting-ribs.

  40. You see the edges of it, instead of being bossed, or knopped, or crocketed, are mouldings of severest line.

  41. But here one great block of marble forms part of two panels, and the mouldings and head are both carved in the solid, the joint running just behind the neck.

  42. His mouldings may be cut hastily, but do you think his joints will be?

  43. His mouldings may be hastily cut, for they are, as I have just said, unnecessary to his structure, and disadvantageous to his decoration; but he is not likely to be careless about arrangements necessary for strength.

  44. His mouldings may be careless, but do you think his joints will be?

  45. But you are, I trust, now in some degree persuaded that no art, Florentine or any other, can be understood without knowing these sculptures and mouldings of the national soul.

  46. They live indeed on the third floor; but here they have suites of wonderful painted and gilded chambers, in which foreshortened frescoes also cover the vaulted ceilings and florid mouldings emboss the ample walls.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mouldings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.