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Example sentences for "pointed arch"

  • Its section is that of a lofty-pointed arch, truncated at the top, so as to give one panel in width flat, the rest being all on the curve.

  • It has a square lintel and a pointed arch above: bold corbels on either side carry a high tomb, the base of which is just over the lintel; this is arcaded at the side and ends, and on its sloping top is a figure of a knight.

  • The west doorway of the church is severely simple, with a square opening and plain tympanum, under a pointed arch.

  • The west window appears to have been a fine cusped circular opening, under a pointed arch, the spandrel between the two being filled with circles similar to the traceries in the steeple of San Miguel.

  • Into how many classes may the pointed arch be divided?

  • In the middle is a large, wide, pointed arch, with a square-headed entrance beneath.

  • A few yards from the corner is a doorway with a pointed arch, now walled up, which I consider to have been made at the time of the Crusades, and possibly then called the Gate of the Valley of Jehoshaphat.

  • Passing the south-east corner of the wall, and proceeding westward, we observe a gate with a pointed arch, also walled up.

  • The crypt of the church, reached by an external staircase on the south side, is an uninjured building of the Hospitalers; in its east wall is a doorway with a pointed arch, closed to prevent the earth falling in.

  • All other leaves, as far as I know, have the round or pointed arch in the form of the extremities of their foils.

  • The roofs are often gabled, sometimes in the form of a pointed arch; they generally show a banded architrave, dentils, and a raking cornice, or else an imitation of broadly projecting eaves with small round rafters.

  • Their application led to the introduction of two other elements, second only to them in importance, ribbed vaulting and the pointed arch.

  • The entrance to the stable-yard of the hotel is beneath a pointed arch of Saxon architecture, and on one side of this stands an old building, looking like a chapel, but which may have been a porter's lodge.

  • Goldsmith has as good a position as any poet in the Abbey, his bust and tablet filling the pointed arch over a door that seems to lead towards the cloisters.

  • The church of Grasmere is a very plain structure, with a low body, on one side of which is a small porch with a pointed arch.

  • In its greatest breadth the wall is provided with galleries, roofed by projecting stones laid in horizontal beds and cut to the outline of a pointed arch.

  • The lid in some instances appears to be of slat-work, and, instead of the semicircular gable common in Phoenicia, presents a pointed arch.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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