When the wainscoting was finished, he had the moulding and high plinths painted in indigo, a lacquered indigo like that which coachmakers employ for carriage panels.
A similar decor covered the plinthsand bordered the partitions which were covered with Japanese sea-green crepe, slightly wrinkled, imitating a river rippled by the wind.
Both Falaise and Domfront have plinths of superior masonry, but there is always the possibility that these plinths are later additions.
We passed the large hall, with which the whole of the bed-chambers communicated, and she conducted me through a dark passage to a room, in which were several goldenplinths without statues.
They were mounted on plinths of the burnished metal, and carved out of a sort of light blue chalcedony, which, joined with their masterly execution, gave them the appearance of life.
As we rode towards its western shoulder, the moon touched with a glinting light the flat stones of its southern slope and struck on the hugeplinths and door-lintels of the temple which crowned it.
These simple bases are the most effective portions of the architectural scheme of the monument, in character with the allegorical figures, reminding us of the plinths or seats provided for the Athletes and the Prophets of the Sistine.
The plinths are 14 inches in thickness, and that of the central pier is 21 inches.
Each light in its widest part is 18 inches, 13 inches between the plinths on the sill.
This work was carried into such unlikely portions of the ware such as bases of candlesticks or plinths of massive candelabra.
Wedgwood's semi-porcelain, used at first for the plinthsof his variegated vases.
In such pieces the handles and the plinths were usually oil gilded; later he used a white semi-porcelain forplinths of such ware.
The plinthsof the agate vases show the white undecorated body.
The uppermost of these plinths is of the kind I have called 'round relief'; you might strike it out on a coin.
Their bases have complex plinths of considerable height and are polygonal, but follow roughly the form of the pillar, and the mouldings, as usual in this style, overhang the plinth.
The bases, with their complex plinths and overhanging upper mouldings, are over five feet high, and the capitals are polygonal, with small and shallow mouldings, of which the lowest follows the form of the pier.
The architect will study with pleasure the arrangement of the arcading and the exquisite plinths of the piers which support it.
That the plinths and cornices used for binding the armor are to be light and delicate.
The columns were entirely covered with an ornamentation in relief of zigzag lines alternating with the well-known spiral wave; they stood upon rectangular pedestals, of which the triply stepped plinths have been preserved.
The square plinths upon which the columns stood have, however, remained in their original position, so that the number and site of the supports may be easily and surely determined.
They were of limestone and rested upon plinths and a pavement of the same material (Fig.
Elsewhere, in the gates of the Assyrian palaces, and in the plinths of the walls that surround their courts and halls, we find both figures in the round and in low relief.
It is borne by two colossal plinths flanked and retained by buttresses.
Of all parts of the palace the doorways were most exposed to injury from the shocks of traffic, and we find their more solid plinths surmounted by higher and thicker slabs than are to be found elsewhere.
These plinths are from two to nearly four feet high, according to the extent of the courts or chambers in which they occur.
In our plate the lower of these two plinths is only hinted at in the two bottom corners.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plinths" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
