Many parts will be found worthy of attention; the timber work of the Octagon is a very curious piece of carpentry executed in English oak, and very massive.
The fourth large window in the Octagon has been filled with painted glass.
Before examining the Octagonwe will make some observations on +The Great Transept.
Philippa, in whose reign theOctagon was built; and under these, Bishop Hotham and Prior Crauden, the great officers of the Cathedral at that period.
The stone-work of the Octagon must be completed by the restoration of the pinnacles and parapet.
The architectural views from the Octagon in every direction are exceedingly fine, and will repay the visitor for a pause of a few minutes to notice them; on all sides are examples of great beauty and variety.
Octagon and Lantern; the three figures of the Apostles required to complete the series in the Octagon; the floor of the north arm of the Transept; and the erection of pinnacles on the exterior of the Octagon.
We now cross the Octagon (which we will examine afterwards) to the south arm of the Transept.
When the white and yellow-wash was cleared away from the woodwork of the Octagon and Lantern in 1850, some remnants of ancient colouring were discovered.
This chapel, which has been erroneously designated a “mosque,” is an octagon building of moderate size, neatly painted in fresco.
The mausoleum is of the octagon form, the floor being raised two steps in the centre, leaving a space all round, just sufficiently wide for one person to pass along.
The choir is Gothic, one hundred and fourteen feet high; nothing can be more striking than the contrast between the octagon nave and the Gothic choir--so totally unlike, and still harmonizing.
They were wont to enrich the surface with marble, sparingly but effectively employed--as in those slender detached columns, which add such beauty to the octagon of S.
This bell-tower does not display the gigantic force of Cremona's famous torrazzo, shooting 396 feet into blue ether from the city square; nor can it rival the octagon of S.
At last they arrived at the tower-like octagon of the bath-rooms, which was completely lined and paved with pale grey marble.
Suddenly all the dolphin and triton heads on the right side of the octagon began to spout streams of hot rater; white steam rushed out of the pipes.
A façade of four Ionic columns fronted an octagon hall, adorned with statues, which led into a salon of considerable size and fine proportion.
At the end of the principal gallery, Henrietta perceived an open door which admitted them into a small octagon chamber, of Ionic architecture.
The Octagon Chapel was in one sense the centre of life in Bath; and through his connection with it, Herschel was thrown into a far more intelligent and learned society than that which he had left behind him in still rural Yorkshire.
He also lived for part of the time with a Mr. Bulman at Leeds, for whom he afterwards generously provided a place as clerk to the Octagon Chapel at Bath.
A year later, he obtained the post of organist to the Octagon Chapel at Bath, an engagement which gave him new opportunities of turning his mind to the studies for which he possessed a very marked natural inclination.
In the year 1322 the Norman central tower fell in with a mighty crash, and was replaced by the octagon and lantern, which form the unique glory of Ely.
There is something, too, very stately about the octagon Laura Place, which opens on to Pulteney Street.
The word "Dome" is derived from the Duomo of Florence, where Brunelleschi covered in the octagon with his famous cupola in the earlier part of the fifteenth century.
It was an octagon of some thirty-seven feet, and stood about twelve feet from the old cathedral.
The reduction of the octagon to the circle is facilitated by giving the spandrels between the arches the necessary concave surface; and this stage is finished off with a cantilever cornice, the work (at least in part) of one Jonathan Maine.
In the centre of the square, and approached through a vestibule from the east, was the Chapter House, an octagon with a diameter of nearly forty feet, supported by massive buttresses.
Nevertheless it is not correct to say that the massive pillars of the octagon leave the vista along the side aisles unimpaired.
The pavement of the dome area is supported by eight larger and four smaller piers, forming externally a square and internally an octagon; and within the octagon eight columns describe a circle of sufficient diameter for Nelson's tomb.
Medallion, a soldier with a straight sword (best for science of defence), octagon shield, helmet like the beehive of Canton Vaud.
Now, that little octagon Baptistery stood where it now stands (and was finished, though the roof has been altered since) in the eighth century.
You see again the resemblance in the earnestness of both figures, in the unbroken arcs of their backs, in the breaking of the octagon moulding by the pointed angles; and here, even also in the general conception of the heads.
The Octagon Room in Sir Robert Chiltern’s House in Grosvenor Square.
FIRST ACT SCENE The octagonroom at Sir Robert Chiltern’s house in Grosvenor Square.
The architecture strikes me as extremely fine; each alternate side of the octagon being an arch, rising as high as the cornice of the lofty dome, and forming the frame of a vast niche.
The octagon seems to be a favorite shape in Florence.
In the other pattern the contour of the octagon is rounder; and the hexagon is replaced by an eight-pointed star, at the centre of which is a diamond containing a rectangle or occasionally a Greek cross.
Their nap is invariably short; in all of them some shade of dark red is the predominating colour; and in most of them some form of anoctagon appears.
They have two well-known patterns, one of which consists of an octagon surrounding a quartered hexagon.
The quarters of the octagon are of a deep blue alternating with a red that is lighter than the field.
It was a stupendous building, of which the ruins now remain, forming a regular parallelogram of 180 feet square, flanked by seventeen octagon towers, and with a fine machicolated gateway forming the keep.
The Afghans, however, are more striking, the octagon designs being larger and bolder.
The octagonsections are all ornamented, the small red diamonds at the edges being separated by dark green lines.
Well," said the sheriff, "I happen to know that financially the Octagon Coal Company is somewhat 'groggy.
I am president of the Octagon Coal Company, as I have said, and reside in the city of Philadelphia, where I have been engaged in active business for several years.
That morning the body of Brown Hirst, manager of the Octagon Coal Company, had been picked up in the muddy waters of Tug River, just below the bridge.
Almost immediately I began to close the affairs of the Octagon Coal Company, and very shortly after the funeral I called upon Mrs. Hirst in order to take the preliminary steps looking toward the collection of her husband's insurance.
We secured a charter for the Octagon Coal Company, purchased a plant on the Norfolk and Western Railroad in the county of McDowell, and began to operate with Brown Hirst as manager and myself president of the presumed Philadelphia company.
There were eight panels formed by the octagon shape of the room.
The apartment was of octagon shape and was lighted by a chandelier which hung from the ceiling, suspended therefrom by silver chains.
At Ely, beautiful as is the work in the octagon and choir, there is no Norman work east of the transepts.
The church of the Holy Apostles is a basilica with rounded apse and four octagon towers, one at each corner of the nave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octagon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: eight; figure; octave; octet; triangle
