Occasionally a cloistered walk under low Tudor arches, or a group of highly ornate terra cotta chimneys is seen, as one wanders around the dim and shadowy passages.
In its opening lines its scene is laid in that wonderfully ornate and impressive Chateau of Blois, which so many have used as a background for all manner of writing.
On the other side a few steps rose to a watch-tower--a sort of ornate sentry-box in stone, where one might sit and regard with wide vision the whole country.
Here he was shown into a small room, richly furnished after a sombrelyornate fashion, the drapery and coverings much faded, worn even to shabbiness.
The door was of strong sound oak, withornate iron hinges right across it.
Professor Starbottle thought that the strangers must belong to some wealthy and civilized country, for men in a savage state would be incapable of inventing such powers of flight and presenting so ornate an appearance.
An ornate pagoda of stone covered the entrance to the underground palace.
He went into the over-ornate bedroom in which Nita Leigh Selim had been murdered--shot through the back as she sat at her dressing-table powdering her face.
But at last he found the ornate pair of pillars spanned by the painted legend, "Primrose Meadows," and drove through them into what soon became a rutted lane.
The honor-guard advanced in two columns; between them marched an unclad and heavily armed native carrying an ornate spear with a three-foot blade upright in front of him with all four hands.
Half an hour later, a large and excessively ornate air-launch, specially built at the Konkrook shipyards for King Jonkvank, was sighted coming over the mountain from the east.
The most remarkable building in Louvain is the Hotel de Ville, one of the richest and most ornate examples of pointed Gothic in the country.
If less ornate than that of Oudenarde it is more harmonious in its details.
Or for the sake of richer and more ornate effect, while confining our picture or illustration to the limits of the type-page, we may use our margin for a decorative framework or border.
The melon-like divisions are defined by strings of raised glass laid on the surface, while the panels between are engraved in arabesques of leaves and birds, and the whole forms a very pretty piece of ornate glass design.
The effect is rude, but I think these plainer capitals were not a sign of incapacity in the architects of the guild, for one sees richly ornate ones on the same building.
Antonio Amedeo, and has the same ornate Renaissance style as the facade of the Certosa in which he assisted.
If internal evidence is wanting, the three lion portals of the ornate facade bear witness to the hand of the Comacines of the Romanesque epoch.
There was also Bartolommeo da Campione, who carved some of the richly ornate capitals of the columns.
The north door is of rich ornate Renaissance style, and much later than that on the facade, although the lions are still under the columns.
In about 1490 Pietro was engaged on a great work of architecture at Treviso, where the bishop had commissioned him to improve the cathedral by putting a new and ornate facade with a large window, besides building three new chapels.
Maestro Lorenzo was no doubt one of the precursors of the sculptors of the beautiful cathedral of Como, and the richly ornate Certosa of Pavia, who were trained in the Sienese laborerium.
It is possible to detect beneath the close and manifold coverings of his ornate decoration a swift flame of imaginative impulse such as Blake sent into the world without such covering.
The various parts of the altarpiece were enclosed in a splendid and ornate frame while in the possession of Prince Demidoff in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the whole is a magnificent monument to Crivelli's art.
His presentation was not asornate as that of Alice Stebbins.
Everyone understands that I'm really busy with this damned hearing," Henry grumbled as he made his way to the ornate bathroom.
With the possible collapse of her prospect of living in Colbury, and her ambition to adjust herself to the exigent demands of its more ornate civilization, her natural untrained grace was returning to her.
The Exposition Building is a vast ornate structure of iron and glass, occupying the lake front, extending from Monroe to Jackson street, and with a front of eight hundred feet on Michigan avenue.
The parterre before the palace is cut off from the forest of Saint Germain by three ornate iron gates.
Luxurious, excessively ornate and overpowering it is, and, for that reason, open to question.
Holy Trinity spire is 237 feet high, and much less ornate than S.
There is dignity in the very simplicity of all this; but not seldom far more ornate examples may be found.
Such we remember Spencer Wood in its palmiest days, when it was the ornate home of a man of taste, the late Henry Atkinson, Esquire, the President of the Horticultural Society of Quebec.
The appearance of this once celebrated structure in its general aspect was more imposing from its extent than from any architectural ornate embellishments.
Church of St. Romuald, which, with its frescoed ceiling and ornate interior is one of the handsomest temples of worship round Quebec.
Frascatorius "Unquestionably the most ornate and richly laid-out estate around Quebec is Woodfield, formerly the elegant mansion of the Honorable Wm.
Its ornate style of culture, which made it a show-place for all strangers visiting Quebec, was mainly due to the scientific and tasty arrangements of an eminent landscape gardener, M.
The St. Francesca was built of light-brown stone and decorated with much ornate molding.
If, as suggested above, it is only facts and information of an historical character which words have to convey, much eloquence and an ornate style seems inappropriate.
