How To Use Tracery In A Sentence
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In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
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The inner timber tracery is carried by the steel structure and will flex with the steel stems.
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Scoring whitely their tracery of intricate lines, the groups go by in whorls, in angles, in sweeping circles, and the ice shrinks beneath them; here a fairy couple slide along, waving and bowing and swinging together; far away some recluse in his pleasure sports alone with folded arms, careening in the outward roll like the mast of a phantom-craft; everywhere inshore clusters of ruddy-cheeked boys race headlong with their hawkey-sticks, and with their wild cries, making benders where the ice surges in a long swell: and constantly in
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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Over the skin was a delicate tracery of black tattooing, marred by a badly healed wound that ran diagonally across the face.
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The eastern window of five lights is a singular combination of tracery with tabernacle work, while the easternmost bay on the south side, which is partly obscured by the vestry, has an exquisite window above, consisting of a richly traceried arch placed within a curvilinear triangle, beneath which is a splendid range of niches, and, beneath them again, a gorgeous range of sedilia and piscinae." [
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey
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The surface is suggestive: imagine crumpling a canvas, smoothing it out and then using the tracery of creases to define areas within the final work.
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There is no denying that Jackson, half in shadow,, half in light, her unbound hair appearing as a delicate tracery of light itself around her face, serves as a fitting frontispiece for the catalog.
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This was costly to construct, flamboyant, and characterized by ogee arches, flowing and inventive window tracery, and lighter vaulting.
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In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
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Anna tried to keep her gaze on the windows, the tracery of trees and sunlight beyond.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Perhaps the least successful of the works is one of the large rectangular panels, overlaid with a tracery of thin clothbound branches, in which the underlying marks and carvings seem somewhat arbitrary and forced.
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As a 1917 photograph of this painting shows, the sail that fills much of the foreground originally bore a delicate tracery of rigging.
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Windows were traditionally of translucent alabaster, but during the second Turkish occupation, deeply coloured stained glass began to be used in the decorative plaster window tracery.
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Through the tracery of the elms, the tiles of the boathouse roof caught the sun.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Heydenreich's windows are hybrid creations: although the columns announce their Italian provenance, the statues of saints are sheltered by diminutive baldachins of Gothic tracery.
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A plain brown carpet suits it best, with a modest figure of green -- preferably of evergreen -- woven into it; a tracery of partridge-berry vine, or, it may be, of club moss, with here and there a tuft of pipsissewa and pyrola.
The Foot-path Way
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He was getting jowly, and his cheeks were blooming with a tracery of broken capillaries.
WHEN THE SACRED GINMILL CLOSES
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We marvel at the exquisite tracery of a leaf, the play of light against the bark of a tree, the reflections and ripples in a puddle of water, the deliquescent radiance of a human eye.
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Its windows have geometric tracery in the Decorated style, with rebates for hinged shutters.
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A plain brown carpet suits it best, with a modest figure of green -- preferably of evergreen -- woven into it; a tracery of partridge-berry vine, or, it may be, of club moss, with here and there a tuft of pipsissewa and pyrola.
The Foot-path Way
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The tracery windows on the south side are masoned up, but much of the original tracery remains.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
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Some of the more succulent plants supported more snails than leaves; every large leaf was eaten down to a tracery of veins as delicate as broekie lace.
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The space between the great arch and the groining of the Choir is filled with rich tracery, on the central panel of which is painted the Crucifixion, with angels holding the chalice and palm branch on the right and left.
Ely Cathedral
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foliate tracery
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The first movement went at a tremendous, irresistible pace, the slow one stayed just on the right side of sentimentality, the scherzo was a tissue of delicate tracery, the finale joyously affirmative.
Daniel Hope and Friends
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The trefoil within the upper squares finds no counterpart above Gideon and the Burning Bush, though the tracery here falsely suggests an answering trefoil.
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Comfortable at dish box container, nacelle, tracery wall , window box and balcony help advance somebody's career.
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The result incorporates a visible seismic infrastructure with shapes that reflect the traditional Gothic tracery.
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In some cases this tracery is placed just below the Norman stringcourse, but in others the stringcourse has been removed to make room for it.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
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The heraldic devices of the lancet tops and in the tracery lights represent other of Louis's and Francoise's possessions and ancestors.
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Late medieval screens were frequently carved in an exuberant Gothic style with fretted tracery, pinnacles, and arcades.
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Late medieval screens were frequently carved in an exuberant Gothic style with fretted tracery, pinnacles, and arcades.
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It was here that in 1907 Proust studied the facade's foliated tracery, illuminated by Agostinelli's headlamps.
Classic France: the insiders' guide
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What with the green (albeit pale) and the delicate patterns of the wings – all interlaced, spider-webby tracery – I think this alien may be of the Irish variety.
The Bug on the Glass « Unknowing
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Divided by sub-arcuation into three lights, surmounted by circles of quatrefoil tracery in the spandrels of the arches, and supported by composite shafts, with moulded bases and foliated capitals, this elegant window had been allowed to drop into a ruin.
Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See
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To the south-west hung Orion, showing like a pallid ghost through a tracery of iron-work and interlacing shapes above a dazzling coruscation of lights.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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Out of those hands, so delicately, ideally white and transparent, with their faint tracery of azure veins -- from those rosy hollowed palms, wherein a chiromancer would have discovered many an intricate crossing of lines, ten, twenty different men had drunk at a price.
The Child of Pleasure
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Her very short skirts, which are made of numberless layers of white tulle, and the top layer, which stands out almost like a wheel, is adorned with a bold lattice work of silver ruching and diamante and interlaced with a delicate tracery of pale blue.
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Wooden chancel screens are very numerous, the upper part being divided by mullions, supporting tracery, and the whole was elaborately treated with panelling, niches, statues, and pinnacles.
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Beatrice, Sir Otho's wife -- each under a monumental arch, with hanging tracery and a crocketed ogee canopy.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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curvilinear tracery
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Among Mollusks, the lower Bivalves, that is, the Brachiopods and Bryozoa, still prevailed, while Ammonites continued to be very numerous, differing from the earlier ones chiefly in the ever-increasing complications of their inner partitions, which become so deeply involuted and cut upon their margins, before the type disappears, as to make an intricate tracery of very various patterns on the surface of these shells.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Light blue tracery zigged and zagged back to his grey-haired temples and down each side of his neck.
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Its vast breadth, parcelled out into eleven lights, and the infinite division of the stonework in the head, impressed the imagination; while mullions and tracery stood out in such inky contrast against the daylight yet lingering outside, that the architect read the scheme of subarcuation and the tracery as easily as if he had been studying a plan.
The Nebuly Coat
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The central baldachin in Gossaert's Malvagna triptych contains a number of individual tracery figures that are essential to its design.
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Highlights of these volumes are the windows of the choir clerestory, and the tracery lights of various chapels and of the chapter house.
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Under their benignancy no loss could befall, no fate miscarry -- for in his last thought he felt his vision opened, for the moment, to perceive a fine tracery of fate.
The Gentleman from Indiana
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Additional heraldic shields float in the foregrounds below the flanking scenes, as well as in the lancet cusps and the adjacent tracery openings above them.
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Hundreds of delicate columns of white marble, filagreed and inlaid with gold and mosaics, and with exquisite capitals, rose before me on all sides, which, with the fine tracery of the Gothic windows, formed a vista of perfect classic loveliness.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
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In many of the halls still standing are arabesques, fashioned in mosaics, fret-work and delicate tracery not unworthy of a place in modern decorative art.
Cradle Lands of Canadian Indians
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In Splendor on the Bench, a realistically rendered vacuum-tube stereo amplifier sits alone in a paneled room, the painting's surface marked by a delicate tracery.
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All this glass almost certainly came from the east chancel window, in the tracery lights of which the Lovell arms were to be seen until recently.
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If the altar tracery was intended to invoke a chapel interior, it is probably significant that on Edward's gates a prominent feature is the repeated projecting oriel window, which reflects Edward's oratory immediately above.
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The smaller sacristy windows are undivided and free of tracery.
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Although the trefoil, bell, and other tracery figures had previously appeared in mural decoration, they acquired exceptional importance around 1500.
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Or is it like lacy fretwork - tracery bracket & buzz saw
Many Morning
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The arch is topped by a large tracery rose and backed by a trough on the interior side (within the cloister walk) that probably once marked the entrance to the chapterhouse.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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The boss at the center of the vault, arranged as a decorative six-pointed star with cusped tracery, here provides the sculptural element.
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While the north aisle is later than the south, the clearstory, as has been said is earlier, being of late Decorated date with large three-light windows of reticulated tracery.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
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The heraldic devices of the lancet tops and in the tracery lights represent other of Louis's and Francoise's possessions and ancestors.
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The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling.
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Blandamer window, where in the centre of the infinite multiplication of the tracery shone the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat.
The Nebuly Coat
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Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern.
My Tropic Isle
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Some of the drawings, like stained-glass tracery, are studies for the paintings.
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Its windows have geometric tracery in the Decorated style, with rebates for hinged shutters.
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In the games room, supported by slate and iron pillars, a tracery of iron girders held the low glass ceiling.
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Her very short skirts, which are made of numberless layers of white tulle, and the top layer, which stands out almost like a wheel, is adorned with a bold lattice work of silver ruching and diamante and interlaced with a delicate tracery of pale blue.
Further Pavlova
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Their courtship was an infinitely sensitive piece of choreography, conducted by the delicate touch of 16 translucent legs and four palps (the short feelers at the front of the head), as well as vibrations transmitted through a tracery of silk.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Earlier masons, he tells us, produced simple tracery in round windows by piercing stone discs.
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The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery.
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The main medieval style in western Europe, characterized by the pointed arch, slender columns and shafts, buttresses, pinnacles, and increasingly complex ceiling vaulting and window tracery.
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Their skins, a phosphorescent seafoam green, were embellished with a delicate tracery of painted tattoos - leaves, flowers, sperm, tears, butterflies.
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As he went along that noble avenue with its elms in their winter dress, the moon shining through their branches wrought a fantastic tracery, on the smooth asphalte.
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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Additional heraldic shields float in the foregrounds below the flanking scenes, as well as in the lancet cusps and the adjacent tracery openings above them.
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American tribes, point out the symbol of the sun, in their ancient muzzinabikons, or rock-inscriptions, and also amid the idiographic tracery and bark-scrolls of the hieratic and magical medicine songs.
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
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An almost seam free marble floor can be inlaid with tracery, borders, natural mosaics and other patterns in an infinite number of ways.
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Her raven-black hair, copious both in length and volume and figured like a deep river, rippled by the wind, was parted in the centre and combed smoothly down, ornamenting her pink temples with a flowing tracery that passed round to its modillion windings on a graceful crown.
Shandygaff
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There are many more examples of this type of flamboyant ironwork tracery sufficient to indicate that the style was rooted in the Low Countries.
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And below it, a lovely Venetian window, complete with stone tracery, which used to look out on some view of the Temple of Aesculapius, perhaps; but now it is filled in by a modern window-frame which looks through the same window in the opposite direction, out into the alleyway which, perhaps, used to be a corridor.
Inside, Outside, Upside Down (And Inside Out)
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Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework.
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These do not have openwork tracery on their hinges but have advanced to a distinctive new naturalistic style.
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Comfortable at dish box container, nacelle, tracery wall , window box and balcony help advance somebody's career.
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In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
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Sometimes brick tracery was used, sometimes the small quantity of stone needed was found for important buildings.
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St. Vitus' Cathedral's vast but delicate beauty represents the epitome of the Gothic and Neo-Gothic, with its soaring height and geometric webbed tracery on the ceiling.
