But the beauty of the gold tracery is beyond expression.
Priceless bits of gold tracery were stolen by the servants and visitors until the cruelly denuded panels aroused Mr. MacClean to a sense of his danger.
It is however the beautiful gold tracery laid upon this white metal which renders it so famous.
The quick glance of Wilder had caught, however, a glimpse of the tracery against the heavens, as they descended.
Showing the peculiar writhing of the branched tracery with a serpentine flexure--altogether different from the springing lines of Gothic ornament.
The doorway and rose window in the west front are of red and white marble, and in the side windows the tracery and monials are of white marble, and the jambs alternately red and white.
The tracery of the rose windows is all finished in brick, and the detail generally is better and more delicate in its character than that of the south transept.
There is a very curious example of Italian tracery in the church of San Giacomo, in Bologna.
Nothing can be much more clumsy than the provision for the steps leading to the turrets, nor weaker than the rectangular tracery inserted in the circular window of the transept.
The church is well designed to suit the climate, all the windows being small except at the east end, where there is a fine triplet, with a circular window filled with well-designed tracery above.
The tracery of the second stage of the Doge's Palace at Venice is probably equal to any that has ever been executed, and may well be the pride of the country.
In that Venetian tracery this simplest element of sculptured form is used sparingly, as the most precious that can be employed to finish the façade.
Through the tracery of the lattice came the warm breeze, bearing the narcotic scent of those tropic gardens.
In through the marble tracery stole the silent panels of moonlight.
The half-light of the marble arcade was fading into a soft haze, wherein the gauzy tracery that pierced the pillared stone work was barely visible.
In the starlight he could only see the tracery of the forest of palms, and here and there, ghost-like, a white dress flitting.
It was good to rest quietly and look upward into the darktracery far overhead.
Nothing," answered the Andalusian, his dreamy eye wandering over the marble tracery on the wall above.
Here and there the wind has left its mark, and the grey-brown branches and their purple tracery of twigs, with a suggestion of infinite depth behind, show through the rents in the leafy covering.
In the centre of the rose of sixteen rays is a little relief of the Virgin and Child; the tracery is like that of the cathedral at Trieste.
The stage above has tall square-headed windows, with reticulated tracery in the heads of cusped circles or quatrefoils, and two lights below with central colonnette.
The wall above is pierced by oculi of different sizes, some of which have quatrefoil tracery within, and the caps of the columns show an almost Romanesque variety and vivacity.
The upper archmould nohow serves To meet the lowertracery curves: "The ogees bend too far away To give the flexures interplay.
The trowels rang out, and tracery Appeared where blanks had used to be.
Two capellae north and south and between them a greate space with a tall doore in the midst, of four centres, all panelled under ye fann-tracery over ye lintel.
The fragments of window-tracery already referred to as having been found on the site are English in character.
The greater part of the end wall of the nave is filled by a large window with remarkably beautiful traceryin its head.
The tracery of all the windows is of the best type of the fourteenth century and is unrivalled by that of any other English cathedral of similar date.
It was almost covered with a water plant with leaves like a strawberry, which made a dull rose tracery across the reflected blue sky.
The leaves throw deep shadows on the rusty red path and a tracery of leaf shadows, on the cow's back and sides--deeper in colour than the velvety black of the hide itself.
She recovered herself, looked at him in speechless indignation as if he had ordered it, pushed open the gate, and the black tracery of bars swung back into its place, dividing them.
The terraced town stood out in strong relief, here a dome and there a tower overlooking the tall stone warehouses, while the slender traceryof the shipping appeared like spider's webs.
The roof of this chapel is one of the richest specimens of the fan-tracery in the kingdom.
Most of its original character is lost and buried beneath the continued alterations of modern art, and the observer of ancient tracery and sculptorship will find but little to amuse him beyond a mutilated piscina or circular door-way.
On one of the chancel walls antique specimens of fresco paintings may be seen, and in a window of the North transept, tracery coarsely wrought out of the stone forming the lintel.
The tracery of a rose window over the door of the North aisle, is gone, and perhaps it is difficult to decide what it meant.
The tracery on an East window in the North aisle is wrought up to a considerable effect by the chisel, and somewhat represents a lyre.
A winding staircase in a turret of open tracery next carried me to the Octagon, where I found myself surrounded by a new zone of statues.
Peering through the tracery of the Organ Gallery, Tresco looked down upon the scene with wonder and something akin to envy.
