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Example sentences for "pilaster"

Lexicographically close words:
piki; piking; pila; pilaf; pilaff; pilastered; pilasters; pilau; pilchard; pilchards
  1. The pilaster with Madonna's picture had survived the fire, and the Laudesi still met round it to sing her praises.

  2. As in Tura's pilaster (see 772), the winged sphere plays a principal part in the design, for it was a favourite badge of the ducal house of Ferrara.

  3. Thus the cup, balls, and wing-like appendages in the pilaster are quite original.

  4. Our picture, which is also mentioned by Vasari, was originally attached to a pilaster in the choir of S.

  5. The inside panels were bolted at the ends to the uprights of the bents; the outside panels were similarly lag screwed to the uprights of the pier and pilaster forms; Fig.

  6. Two circumferential rows of posts were driven around the edge so that a pair of posts, one inner and one outer, came on each radius through a wall pilaster or pier.

  7. The pier and pilaster forms were then erected across wall opposite each bent as shown by Fig.

  8. Short beams were placed from pilaster to pilaster around the room and a second set of beams was laid across the angles made by the first set.

  9. But young Bertram still sat on the pilaster nursing the old bronze ball, his glad young face strangely sober.

  10. It shows an altar tomb with a pilaster at each corner, ornamented with arabesques similar to those on Henry VII.

  11. The gables and the dormer windows in the larger houses were often connected by a parapet, broken at intervals by a shallow pilaster carried up to form the base of a finial or the seat for some heraldic animal.

  12. The Corinthian order is employed for the ground and first storeys and an attic storey above, in which the pilaster capitals run into the bedmold of the upper cornice.

  13. A small church at Rosheim in Alsace is quite Lombardic in its exterior design, the pilaster strips and arched corbel tables being almost identical.

  14. On that is the pyramid, its base in the plane of the collarins of the pilaster below.

  15. Between the columns, on each side, is an arch of eight feet, four inches, opening with a pilaster on each side of it.

  16. In two cases, the base of the pilaster is carved into the figure of a winged bull, closely resembling the bulls which commonly guarded the outer gates of palaces.

  17. The body of the temple is a columnar structure, exhibiting at either corner a broad pilaster surmounted by a capital composed of two sets of volutes placed one over the other.

  18. The Angel of the Annunciation carries no lily; when in the Tabernacle of St. Peter's he had to decorate a pilaster he made lilies, but stiff and unreal.

  19. The base consists of three bronze reliefs joined into a triangle, separated at each angle by a narrow bronze plaque, beyond which is a curved pilaster giving extra support to the figures above.

  20. Tis of a Hexagon Figure: In the Middle of every Front is a double Pilaster of Jasper, with a Chapiter of Brass gilt, which supports a Cornice and an Entablature of the same, each Pilaster representing the Emblems of precious Stones.

  21. In Lombardy and Venetia the square red-brick shaft of the tower is often adorned with long, narrow pilaster strips, as at Piacenza (p.

  22. Anta = a flat pilaster decorating the end of a wing-wall and treated with a base and capital usually differing from those of the adjacent columns.

  23. This was Romanesque, with angle pilasters, and a central pilaster carried up as high as the belfry-stage.

  24. Agnes, with her lamb by her side, is placed on a pilaster towards the southern door.

  25. A Visitation was in a tabernacle at the corner of the church, and subjects from Job's life on a pilaster within it: these have long ago disappeared.

  26. Adjoining it is a flat pilaster buttress, apparently original.

  27. The south and east faces are each divided by a central pilaster running up to the top of the parapet, but otherwise the general scheme is not unlike that of the older sides, save that the windows here are set higher in the wall.

  28. Bartholomew on a pilaster in Orsanmichele, and for the Nuns of S.

  29. Catharine of Siena, executed likewise in fresco, on a pilaster in the Chapel of the Rucellai; whereby, exerting himself in that art, he gave proofs of his fine qualities.

  30. Agostino at Rome, on a pilaster in the middle of the church, he made in marble a S.

  31. The stiles of the entrance are basically the pilaster type although the reeding within the pilaster is rounded rather than flat.

  32. Double doors and hinges have been inserted in this doorway, and the base and a portion of a pilaster cut away most barbarously to receive them.

  33. I should not omit mentioning the mark of a wooden seat in the northern rectangular recess, and the place of a wooden rail for clothes, that was let into the pilaster at one end with the slot in a pilaster at the other.

  34. A circular vault crossed the bath from pilaster to pilaster, groined with the semi-circular arches just mentioned.

  35. The upright pilaster above the nave pier remains in the stone edifice, and is the first form of the great distinctive feature of Northern architecture--the vaulting shaft.

  36. Short beams were placed from pilaster to pilaster around the room, and additional series of beams were laid to span the angles formed by the lower series.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pilaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arcade; balustrade; banister; barbican; base; belfry; campanile; colonnade; colossus; column; cupola; dado; die; dome; lantern; lighthouse; mast; minaret; monument; obelisk; pagoda; pedestal; pedicel; pier; pilaster; pile; pillar; pinnacle; plinth; pole; portico; post; pylon; pyramid; shaft; skyscraper; spire; staff; stalk; stanchion; stand; standard; standpipe; steeple; stem; stupa; tope; tour; tower; trunk; turret; upright