The parapet shows the same wide merlons and cruciform piercings which characterize the other Decorated parapets of the church, and it may have been brought forward from the choir-aisle.
It has been modernised, but still retains a ciborium with quatrefoil piercings and angle pinnacles, bearing much resemblance to that in the cathedral.
It is a patriarchal cross with piercings at the crossings, and rosettes at the ends of the arms, which are probably later additions.
Upon the globe a pattern with beasts and leaves is chased; the foot is conical and sexfoil in plan, with little niello medallions and piercings on the perpendicular parts of two steps.
It has a cross with the Agnus Dei in the centre (pierced), and four little window shapes in the angles with round-headed tympana and oblong piercings below.
The Early Rose windows, which were habitually filled with rich coloured glass, consisted either of simple piercings, as at Lincoln, or they were made up of piercings very definitely divided by massive stonework.
The Oriental windows, on the contrary, were most elaborately designed, the piercings taking the form of intricate patterns, geometric or floral.
His plan was to pierce small openings in large slabs of stone, and in the piercings to set numerous little jewels of coloured glass.
The great Rose windows, and the smaller Roses surmounting a pair of lancets, were rather piercings than tracery; and it was not difficult to adapt the design of a medallion window to suit them.
Rash, inconsiderate, angry words are like the piercings of a sword.
Indeed, nothing in its way can be much prettier than the effect of the shadows of these delicate piercings thrown sharply on the pavement by the brilliant sunlight.
The openings vary considerably in number, and the piercings of the tympanum and in the enclosing arch are also singularly arranged.
The walls are of those just proportions in relation to the window piercings which is again French, as contrasted with a neighbouring example at Metz, where the reverse is the case.
In the gables of three are circular piercings which open into a sort of vestibule or porch; but these are entirely without glass.
This feature is also notable in the roof-line of the nave, which, with the extraordinary window piercings and their disposition, heightens still more the suggestion of the manner of castle-building of the time.
The aisles are diminutively narrow, and the window piercings throughout are exceedingly small; all of which makes for a lack of brilliancy and gloom, which may be likened to the average crypt.
The clerestory above is diminutive, and the window piercingsare infrequent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piercings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
