Two sides of these octagonsare in a deep, sapphire blue, while the remaining two sides are of an orange cast.
Large diamond forms, barred with sapphire blue and rich green, are between the octagons on the field.
The octagons are divided into four sections by distinct lines.
The centres of all the octagons are of the orange shade, and one only is crossed through the centre, the markings being knots of green.
The large octagons are defined by a very narrow dark brown line.
It is octagonal in plan, and of three stages in height, the angles of the octagons in the several stages being all counterchanged.
But octagons and hexagons are very common, for they are easily made, and they are very regular and symmetrical in form.
Then what does he mean by sayingoctagons and hexagons are very regular?
There are other much more exact modes of making octagonsthan this, but I cannot stop to describe them here.
The tower appears to have been added above the north aisle about 1463; it finishes with a shafted parapet and two open octagons with domical roofs, one above the other.
Sometimes the medallions and octagons are replaced by smaller and more ornate figures, but the geometric character is seldom entirely lost.
Most frequently they are geometric and represent some ill defined octagons suggesting Turkoman rugs.
The Royal Bokharas are smaller, the end webs are not so wide, the octagons are never in contact and are separated diagonally by diamond-shaped figures.
In large rugs the centres of the octagons are generally joined by straight lines of dark blue colour.
Between the diagonally placed octagons of both these types are stars or diamond-shaped figures, that are usually of the same design regardless of the shape of the octagon.
Those intended for camels are of oblong shape with a field usually containing large octagons, between which are smaller octagons similar to those in Royal Bokharas.
The octagons were turned by means of cranks upon the ends of the axles, from which cords descended into a cabin below.
Inside the columns are round, with caps and bases partly round and partly eight-sided, the hollow octagons interpenetrating with the circular mouldings.
All the arches of the aisle arcade spring from the simple moulded capitals of piers whose section is that of four half-octagons placed together.
The heads of the two windows, one on either side of the door, are half-irregular octagons with convex sides.
The whole is made up of twenty-three large octagons and of four other rather distorted ones in the corners, all surrounded with elaborate mouldings, carved and gilt like the cornice.
In each of the twenty-seven octagons there is painted on a flat-boarded ground a large swan, each wearing on its neck the red velvet and gold collar made by Dona Isabel for the real swans in the tank outside.
From the square or three-sided spaces left between the octagons there project from among acanthus leaves richly carved and gilt pendants.
All the space between the mouldings and the octagons is filled with most elaborate gilt carving on a blue ground.
Still more "flowered octagons and squares" follow, having next below a diaper of "treble scale" pattern.
They were octagonsfrom fifteen to sixteen feet in diameter and from fifteen to twenty feet high.
They were octagons whose ceilings, as the name implies, were shaped like a skull-cap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octagons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
