A deeply recessed and acutely pointed arch is divided into two by a central shaft, with moulded base and foliaged capital.
To keep from saying it he crossed to the recessed window and sat down in the sleepy-hollow chair which was the Major's peculiar possession in the music-room.
After luncheon they all gathered in the deep-recessed window of the music-room which commanded a view of the groved pasture with its background of mountain slope and precipice.
The edges of the outer plates are recessed into the frame, so that there is not an open joint.
The door being slightly recessed when shut, a wedge cannot be inserted with the same ease as if it were flush; and if it is inserted, the pressure is exerted against the point of greatest strength and away from the door.
The red sunset, still faintly showing through the heavily recessed windows to the opposite wall, made two luminous aisles through the darkness of the long low apartment.
Indeed, her tall, erect figure in black lustreless silk, appearing in a heavily shadowed doorway, or seated in a recessed window, gave a new and patrician dignity to the melancholy of the hacienda.
Lady Geraldine and Cecil Devereux, as we were drinking coffee, were in a recessed window, while some of the company stood round them, amused by their animated conversation.
The windows, recessed in the Colonial style, retain their original inside shutters that are still used.
It is hung with a most interesting Morris paper done in pink and blue, and at one end is a recessed sideboard.
On the other hand, in the Usk nesting of 1906, on the placid banks of the Pend d'Oreille, one pair had recessed its nest in a stump at a height of eighteen feet, while three other pairs had sunk theirs into the ground at the base of bushes.
The five deeply recessed portals correspond to its five aisles, and the western towers are set clear of the aisles, as at Rouen; that to the southwest is now braced by a flying buttress and detached buttress pile.
The deeply recessed lancet openings in each face of the giant beacon serve the practical purpose of buttresses.
At this point the proceedings were recessed and resumed as stated, at 6:40 p.
The tower, which is ruined, has a deeply recessed Norman arch, slightly pointed, and having shafts with caps and bases.
The clerestory windows have decorated tracery, and the windows of the aisles are of a mixed character under arches recessed in the walls.
In the subdued, recessed lighting, half-drunk cups of cold coffee stood around the central teakwood table.
But the spring mountings on the recessedhinges were intended to open and close automatically.
Entering my room, lighted strongly by a big bulkhead lamp swung on gimbals above my writing-desk, I did not see him anywhere till he stepped out quietly from behind the coats hung in the recessed part.
And then I could at last shut, with a clear conscience, the door of my stateroom and get my double back into the recessed part.
I pointed to the recessed part where the little camp-stool awaited him and laid my finger on my lips.
When at last I did I saw him standing bolt-upright in the narrow recessed part.
Joe strolled down the halls, brilliantly lit from recessed ceiling fixtures.
His dimples recessedeven further as he enjoyed watching Homosoto's reaction.
Stark white walls and their nondescript modern paintings were illuminated by recessed lights.
They have deep windows or doors, recessed like our safes, with a great air of solidity, which contrasts with that temporary wooden structure, the usual Japanese house.
The pediment and the brackets which cap the pillars are brilliantly painted, and the recessed space below the curved roof-beam is filled with palm-like curves of carved waves and winged dragons.
We went up the steps of the recessed gate, which repeats the former theme of white and gold and black in forms of an elegance that touches the limits of good taste.
The west front contains a recessed gateway with ranges of saints in the outer member, and a legion of cherubim with their wings, some spread, some folded, in the inner member.
Martha is of the fourteenth century, with the exception of the south portal, which dates from 1187, and is rich in its deeply-recessed mouldings filled with sculpture, but has been sadly mutilated.
Of the sculpture on the west façade, the richly, deeply-recessed portals, I will not speak.
It consists of two towers, flanking a large window, above which is a high gable, and below a deeply-recessed door.
At the west end is a large Decorated window, and a deeply-recessed doorway of six orders, with buttresses on either side, which have crocketed pinnacles; a wooden cross surmounts the gable.
There is an arcade of open work below, and then some deeply-recessed Early English windows, and below three doorways under one string-course, the centre one having a high gable.
In the lowest there is a triple porch, deeply recessedwith canopies.
In the lowest storey are three deeply-recessed doorways, with detached shafts.
The west front is Early English in design, with lancet windows, a deeply-recessed doorway, and in the gable a window with the leaf decoration praised by Ruskin.
The great south door, six times recessed with shafts both round and square, is a magnificent example of what in England is called Norman work.
A fair chapel was added west of south, adorned with pinnacles and gargoyles and statues and recessed carved door; clustered shafts hold up its vault.
When at last Si'Wren dared to lean once more into the deeply recessedwindow sill for a peek, for the stone of the fortress wall was exceeding thick, her delight was turned to dismay.
This gate stands recessed from the line of the city wall, and is flanked on either hand by a tower, projecting about 20 feet, and rising, narrowing upwards, to a level with the top of the wall above the gate.
The main bays have massive piers with engaged shafts on the recessed faces.
The chancel arch has two orders, recessed square and chamfered, with a plain chamfered hood mould.
The arches of the sub-bays are recessed square, with the usual Norman roll moulding, decorated with chevrons, and on the wall face a square billet.
The work in each arcade is recessed quite seven inches from the face of the general walling above; and the multiplied detail in the mouldings is finely studied.
But the west side has in addition a small arcade of four arches formingrecessed sedilia.
This arch is of interest, as it has but a slight label; and then the outside angle of the soffit only is moulded, the rest being recessed both at the jambs and in the arch for about two feet, with no mouldings at all.
The other five sides are treated as narrow, recessed panels, formed by the six groups of small shafts at either angle.
Of the usual type with projecting wings and recessed entrance, it looks over the pool and wide green to the Dassett hills in front.
The deeply recessed doorway of the western entrance may be of somewhat later date, and contains the original west door.
The kitchen yet keeps its recessed fireplace of ample space.
The ends b b of the copper wire are flattened a little and recessed on their inner faces, as shown in Fig.
This base is recessed on top to receive the main plate A, Fig.
This base is recessed on the lower side to receive an eight-day spring clock movement, which supplies the motive power for the model.
A brass to Edward Young and his family, two recessed tombs in the south wall, a few scraps of wall painting, and the fine Norman font with interlaced arches and sculptured pillars, are some of the other interesting items in this old church.
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