In his Letters and in his poems, his garden and his grotto, his quincunx and his vines, or some hints of his opulence, are always to be found.
He whose lightnings pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx and now ranks my vines.
His house has long been pulled down; his willow has fallen down in utter decay; his quincunx has been destroyed.
The sectors thus divided have coarser puncta in quincunx than the other sectors, ending in a smooth area near the margin, and also larger black puncta scattered from the centre to the semi-radius.
There, in a quincunx of orange-trees, we saw, with our own eyes, a superb tree literally covered with buds and blossoms which perfumed the air for hundreds of yards around.
In the terraced garden of Amboise, near a quincunx of lime trees, is a bust of Leonardo da Vinci.
A thread of weft of fine or medium diameter crosses twice between every two rows of knots, or occasionally a thread of coarse diameter with much slack crosses only once, so that the transverse warp produces a quincunx effect.
A thread of weft crosses only once without slack between every two rows of knots, so that the white spots of transverse cotton warp exposed at back have a quincunx appearance.
They can be identified by the quincunx appearance of the fine cotton weft at the back and the file-like feeling of the weave.
Almost all Hamadans may be distinguished at once by the broad band of camel's hair surrounding the border, and the coarse weft crossing only once between two rows of knots so as to give a quincunx effect at the back.
A single thread of small diameter crosses only once between every two rows of knots, so that the white spots of transverse warp exposed at back have a quincunx appearance.
The quincunx was marked by five small spots or balls.
Defn: A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.
A genus of fossil trees of the Devonian and Carboniferous ages, having the exterior marked with scars, mostly in quincunx order, produced by the separation of the leafstalks.
It was a delicious retreat, this old quincunxof plane trees, another remnant of the past splendor of La Souleiade.
But their favorite retreat, where they always ended by losing themselves, was the quincunx of tall plane trees, whose branches, now of a tender green, looked like lacework.
But it is evident that a much larger quincunx may be had by putting in play only a half, a third, or a fourth of the punches, and causing the tulle and velvet to advance proportionally.
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