How To Use Round arch In A Sentence
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Two identical white reed Victorian garden chairs with high round arching backs stood ready.
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Byzantine architecture is distinguished by its use of the round arch, cross, circle, dome, and rich mosaic ornament.
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The transepts are of the transitional style of the end of the twelfth century; the piers which carry the central tower are of the usual transitional type, having graceful capitals and square abaci supporting round arches; on each side of the north transept there are two original clerestory windows, and one of them has angle shafts, with carved caps and mouldings.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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On all three walls the shafts in this storey stand on a kind of kerb or parapet, which is interrupted in the middle of each bay, and the stilt of the round arch is treated almost like a classical entablature, and has a moulding or cornice above it, while the uppermost part of the wall is thickened, thereby necessitating over each bay a comprising arch, which on the north wall is round, but on the other walls follows the shape of the three sub-arches, and forms a kind of upper order to them.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
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The Roman layer, which is the most ancient and deepest, is occupied by the round arch, which reappears, supported by the Greek column, in the modern and upper layer of the Renaissance.
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The second floor was raised on round arches and supported a balcony resting on a row of buttresses forming an eaveslike projection.
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This has a vaulted ceiling supported on round arches.
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I roamed around archways leading nowhere and windows framed by stone walls standing in isolation.
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The loftiest of the stages of this arcading has a sub-division with round arches; and the stage above the great stringcourse has round-headed trefoils so as to be in keeping with the row of similar arches in the gables; but with these two exceptions all the arches on the arcades of the tower are pointed and without cusps.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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Round arches are here and pointed; invented patterns and marble with symmetrical natural veining which is perhaps more beautiful.
A Wanderer in Venice
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The recessed entry is located in the tower, and has a round arch with decorative archivolt molding.
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The cathedral has the traditional triforium arcade with two round arches under one larger one per bay and clerestory windows above.
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These light structures built on platforms jutted into the water and were covered with pitched roofs, decorated with latticework and round arches.
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The lower level of this structure consists of a triple-bay porch, with quadripartite groin vaults springing from a series of broad, round arches.
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Its builders incorporated the ruins of the 11th-century church into a new facade after it was damaged in 1192, clashing simple round arches with baffling runs of blind arcading.
Gothic architecture in Britain: examples from the era
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The vaulting, windows, and doorways had the form of the round arch, that is, a semicircle, as in the ancient Roman monuments.
Early European History
