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Example sentences for "tooth ornament"

  • The upper string-course and the eaves-cornices are carved with a dog-tooth ornament, and the others with a billet mould.

  • The arches are semi-circular, with labels enriched with dog-tooth ornament, and the shafts which carry them are moulded and wrought in imitation of the coupled columns of early Italian artists.

  • Here, as well as in the interior, the dog-tooth ornament is freely used; and the outer mouldings of the circle are of good character.

  • The dog-tooth ornament is seen in the clerestory.

  • The North Porch is Early English work, and the dog-tooth ornament is observable in the arches.

  • The porch has a stone vault, with a profusion of tooth ornament on the groins and elsewhere.

  • The work on the south side is more elaborate; tooth ornament is used, a string-course runs along at the height of the capitals, and foliaged bosses are found in the lower corners of the spandrels.

  • Tooth ornament is used to a greater extent than in the rest of the transept, and the wall spaces between the clerestory windows and the vault are covered with diaper work.

  • Below the windows an arcade runs right round the walls, with Purbeck shafts, foliaged capitals (see page 142), and a profusion of tooth ornament.

  • These piers support the Early English arches, with dog-tooth ornament large in the interior, small in the exterior.

  • On its capital there is the spring of a pointed arch, enriched with dog-tooth ornament similar to the entrance arch.

  • At the side of the window columns two small circular mouldings, decorated with small dog-tooth ornament, continue without a break round the head of each window.

  • These buttresses are received in an overhanging corbel-table, above which runs a hollow moulding, filled with dog-tooth ornament of a large size and continued round the projections that serve for gargoyles.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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