| 单词 | tracery |
| 例句 | It was overlaid with a tracery of flowers and leaves wrought of silver and gold, and on it were set in elven-runes formed of many gems the name Andúril and the lineage of the sword. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But on the second level—at a considerable height—were four huge windows side by side, with pillars and stone tracery. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The blade was engraved with a delicate silver tracery of a mountain sky; its pommel was a falcon's head, its cross-guard fashioned into the shape of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There they cut stones and tracery, carved capitals and sculptures in preparation for the return of the masons in the spring. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z A tracery of snow lay on the fields and in the yard, but it was not true winter yet. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The tracery, all of which was cut from templates, was cemented into place along with iron reinforcing bars as the piers were being built. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Cardan begins to strip off his shirt, showing an expanse of moon-pale skin and a back with a delicate tracery of faded scars. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He found Kehaar just inside the trees, snapping and tearing with his great beak at a foul-smelling piece of flaking brown flesh which seemed to be hanging from a tracery of bones. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gold leaf illumined the capitals and the delicate tracery which bordered the pages. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The tracery of the rose window for the front of the cathedral was carefully cut according to the plans. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Ralph took in the thumbnail moon, the young trees like tracery, edging the indigo sky. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, inside the gatehouse, there was a neat little hole in the middle of the vaulted ceiling, which had painted tracery and basses. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He held out his wrists, pale side up, exposing the traceries of veins so that Thyon would be sure to take his meaning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In it, a city pedestrian strolls obliviously past the serendipitous alignment of a tree's shadow on a red construction fence with a winter tree's bare-branches tracery on the far side of the fence. Conservation-photo award winners at the Burke: beautiful, brutal, complex 2012-07-13T19:37:03Z The filigree of branches forms the winter tracery. Perspective | Finding the flower bed in the firmament 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Most of the external walls of the 250-foot-long, 150-foot-wide church still stand, along with its exquisite window tracery and outlines of the sacristy, chapter house and dining hall. Welsh revival: Cardiff sheds rust-belt past for glossy future 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z And when Xenakis shifts suddenly from a heavy, repetitive whirlwind passage to a moment of delicate tracery at the top of the keyboard, Mr. Kigawa negotiated the change deftly. Music Review: Difficult Pieces Inspire a Pianist 2010-08-25T22:15:00Z But the work’s silences and passages of fleet, delicate tracery are just as arresting. Music Review: Steven Beck at Bargemusic in Here and Now Series - Review 2012-01-06T22:54:07Z Her doodling acquired urgency, though too much of the piece, which revisited parts of “Study for Occupant,” meandered like that tracery. Valda Setterfield Joins Jonah Bokaer at Lightbox 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The bloom is golden with a tracery of magenta venation. The moth orchid, while lovely, has overshadowed other, less common varieties 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Pas de deux and solos, both delicate and propulsive, offer the elegant, evanescent tracery of bodies in space. Dance Review: Collaborations Bring Cascades of Motion and Emotion 2011-07-07T22:06:58Z Some drawings feature characteristically ornate tracery, while other, later ones are pared down to bold, almost abstract forms. A New Exhibition on Mackintosh’s Architecture 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z By carefully tailoring the radiation shone on their sample, the Vanderbilt team were able to create a photograph that shows the delicate traceries of tissue inside a mosquito's heart. Life through a high powered lens: the Nikon Small World awards 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z Tillinghast set up her own studio in 1884 and was best known for her windows, showing saints and literary figures against backdrops of Mediterranean hills, fluted pilasters and Gothic tracery. Antiques: Rhode Island Americana, Mary Tillinghast and Byrdcliffe Art 2012-01-05T22:29:20Z Ratmansky's choreography is seamless throughout, an unfurling tracery of centripetal classicism that calls on deep technique rather than flashy hyperextension. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2013-03-03T00:05:19Z Mark Tobey, for example, is pushing his images to the edge of the canvas, which is covered in sprays of white tracery. Review | In the shadow of Picasso and Matisse, Paul Klee offered Americans something new 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z New Jersey-based artist Erin Endicott, for example, uses found vintage fabrics, which she embroiders with crimson, ivory or gray thread, designing forms and tracery that suggest organic growth or decay. CoCA juried show: no theme but plenty of meaning 2012-01-12T21:20:06Z Nor were its sets especially assertive: Buckingham Palace and other locations were thinly suggested by some electric bulb tracery. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Charles Emerson's oil-on-canvas "Trajectory of Angels" evokes the essence rather than specifics of angelic beings making fiery, ethereal traceries across a backdrop of autumnal colors. Sisko Gallery scares up some 'Creatures of the Night' 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z Their many sculptures turned them into bibles of stone while the ribbing and traceries added amazing decorative energy. Viewing Europe’s Houses of Worship in Wild Detail 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The tallest folly in the UK, it climbs into the air with telescopic ambition, pierced parapets piled upon trefoil tracery. Hadlow Tower: the UK's tallest folly reborn as a rentable holiday home 2013-04-18T11:06:44Z “Skagit Autumn” is a stark meditation on crisscrossing branches that manages to be oddly ethereal thanks to the way its sticklike traceries seem to be afloat in the air. Ed Kamuda, Dion Zwirner: Nature rules in Lisa Harris show 2014-01-24T01:37:10Z There is also a formal dining room with a fireplace and a tracery ceiling; a library with lacquered paneling, a fireplace, and an adjoining terrace; two family rooms; and a kitchen with high tray ceilings. Tour a Luxe Estate in Greenwich, Connecticut 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Butterfield captures such realism and naturalism in her sculptures that it is almost shocking to see the "extra" tracery of twig forms that extend from the legs and hoofs of the small-scale sculpture titled "La'ala'au." Review: Deborah Butterfield's contemplative horses at Greg Kucera 2011-06-09T20:23:04Z She photographed the tracery of dead leaves on autumnal trees, a flyaway newspaper tumbling down a dark street, a discarded Raggedy Ann doll on the ground. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Nor can it compete with Lee's effortlessly mesmerising storytelling; Wong instead creates a delicate tracery of description, flashback and vignette that require a sizeable investment in concentration from the viewer. The Grandmaster - review 2013-02-08T00:59:36Z The work includes fiery abstractions made with clotted oceans of paint and delicate prints with hues of pink and refined tracery. Review | They’re women, they’re black and they don’t make art about that 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The first of these is also one of the ballet's wonders: against a twilit, watery sky, dancers spin delicate traceries of movement that shimmer, coalesce and fade like the clouds themselves. Royal Ballet Mixed Programme – review 2013-02-24T17:45:01Z Unsurprisingly, “Motel,” a relief-like painting from 1956 and the earliest piece here, uses cardboard to create linear traceries that suggest Paul Klee. Jan Schoonhoven at David Zwirner 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z From the start, Frankenthaler was looking toward 19th-century Japanese masters, as is evident in the delicate tracery of white lines through areas of meaty red and grassy green in “Savage Breeze.” Berkshire Tour: Formalism Relaxes, Handcraft Goes Digital 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The method yields inverted values: the drawings vaguely resemble photographic negatives, luminous tracery floating within dark fields. Mark Sheinkman's drawings made by erasure at Von Lintel Gallery 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The piano and cello lines often seemed mainly foils for the percussion writing, in which layers of delicate tracery in the outer sections were offset by a brief but vigorous drum solo at the center. Music Review: New York New Music Ensemble Plays at Merkin Hall 2010-04-20T22:27:00Z Full of linear traceries, they came foremost from his widow, the painter Lee Krasner, and help measure her growing artistic independence. Review: Drips, Dropped: Pollock and His Impact 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Its stark lines, the gothic tracery of its wings, the fetching retro color scheme of orange and black and its ruby eyes all suggest some arts and crafts jewel. Periodical cicadas are an evolutionary marvel. Enjoy the show. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z As I grew older and started to identify the elaborate tracery of mixed African and European blood in my own family, I began to glimpse the obsession that lay beneath white loathing. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z 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 2010-09-29T20:59:00Z Later there’s a blizzard, and Kay records that the snowfall is “untouched but for the tracery of a bird’s claw prints.” Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Majestic trusses and vaulted skylights nod to the elegant traceries in Penn Station’s original concourse. Let There Be Light, and Art, in the Moynihan Train Hall 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z They are perched amid seven plump oranges, more than a dozen orange blossoms in flower or bud, four honeybees and a tracery of stems and leaves. Completing the garden puzzle, one piece at a time 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The spots begin to move, and slip-sliding traceries of luminosity explode. Review: Blockbuster beauty and epic disaster intertwine in Julian Charrière's art 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z The masons have now moved on to the North Cloisters, where they will spend the next four years restoring elaborately carved tracery and Purbeck columns, bases and capitals that have split. Salisbury Cathedral restoration complete after four decades 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Yet, his exquisite graphite drawing positions a viewer behind an iron railing decorated with the elegant tracery of the king’s monogram. Review: A striking Danish art show at the Getty unpacks what it means to be a nation in turmoil 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z In front of the new hedge, a simple 9-foot arbor, also stained a dark color, supports Clematis armandii, providing an evergreen tracery of foliage that’s smothered with fragrant white blooms in early spring. A private garden oasis in the shadow of a Wallingford housing development 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z He painted this complex plane, with its traceries, sculptures, pilasters and sunken portals jutting out and receding, 28 times, after first painting two close-ups of the Tour Saint Romain, one of the two western towers. Perspective | Monet’s towering obsession Clues in the remaining buildings reveal it had corner turrets and a great hall accessed via an impressive doorway and illuminated by tracery windows. Greasley Castle: Project reveals 'astonishing' secrets 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Early on the Day before Christmas, thin, white clouds seemed to create lacy traceries as they crisscrossed a sky of pure blue. As Christmas night neared, calm seemed to prevail aloft 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z He invited the bemused newsmen to examine the delicate tracery of the insect’s wings. Perspective | The wings of war: Some people believed cicadas carried a dire warning 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z There’s one in “Orbits,” where seven shining stars dart about along dotted oval traceries before a dark, swollen vessel shape that hovers in the sky. Review: The glorious mysteries of Agnes Pelton's desert paintings, on view in Palm Springs 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z When it’s cooked through to tender, it holds its shape, its color too, but it seems almost translucent — you see a tracery of ribs and veins along its contours. Everything You Love About Tomatoes, Amplified 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z My gift was a 90th year amulet, a handcrafted necklace with a tracery of tiny gold chains attached to a charm of deep orange coral. Gifts of a last Hanukkah: The joy of getting treats for Mom, who was a real treasure 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The public realm becomes much more visually transparent, and urban architecture more visible, with the richly complex tracery of tree branches arching overhead. Why trees aren’t just colorful fall features for our region’s neighborhoods 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “Yam Story III” is a vertical web of spidery white tracery over flat black, a ghostly trail of light standing 7½ feet tall. Review: Spectacular aboriginal paintings from Australia burst with deep, sacred beauty 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z I had already visited the ladies’ room with its walls of rich, burnt umber tiles, every eighth tile containing the delicate tracery of a flower. Cardiologist by day, Mafia doctor by night 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z He then peels off the mitts to show a dark-blue tracery of veins bulging through the pale skin along the insides of his forearms like something from a Cronenberg movie. The secrets of boxing's knockout kings: what makes a perfect power puncher 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z He organized the museum around a grand atrium, roofed by a tracery of pyramid-shaped skylights that created a lively play of sun and shadow. I.M. Pei, architect who designed Louvre’s Pyramid, dies at 102 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But sometimes garnets are marred with intricate traceries of microscopic tunnels. Something Digs Intricate Tunnels in Garnets. Is It Alive? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Original tracery patterns made of thin strips of molding decorate the ceilings, with lattice in the living room and a chevron pattern in the dining room, which has a bow window. A Shingle-Style Beach ‘Cottage’ in the Hamptons 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z The result is a tracery of lines that tangle together into beautiful braids. The strange topology that is reshaping physics 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z “The long span hangs between earth and heaven, an intricate tracery of gray wire against a background of flowing river, rocky shores and embracing sky,” The Times reported. New York Today: How to Build a Subway 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “Roger is the gardener,” says Candace, pointing out how the rose has been pruned and trained to create a delicate tracery of branch, leaf and bloom along the deck railing. A romantic garden reminiscent of the Mediterranean 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z She covered this fragile tracery with a thin frosted skin of polymer to create sculptural light fittings. Israeli Designer Ayala Serfaty’s Watery Inspiration for the Home 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Dendrochronological analysis shows oak used in some of the woodwork tracery at the chapel is from trees felled about 600 years ago in Eastern Europe and imported to King's Lynn for use in the chapel. Chapel in King's Lynn reopens after £2.7m restoration - BBC News 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z So are three lovely windows, framed by Tudor arches, that overlook 42nd Street through sinuous tracery. Restoring a Bit of Old English Flair to a Skyscraper on 42nd Street 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Appearing on wintertime’s skeletal tracery of tree limbs, tiny buds grow, pop open and become dense textures of green leaves. California drought reinforces appreciation of D.C.’s botanical bounty 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Eyre had spoken of fiscal restraint, but there were problems with his set, a rotating structure of bronze tracery suggesting the Moorish architecture of Seville, where the story takes place. A Fight at the Opera 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z He grew fascinated by the tracery made by Japanese beetles devouring the leaves. Photographer documents a year in the life of a bur oak on his iPhone 2013-05-24T12:00:00Z Such hues of carnation and purple, and such delicate tracery as you shall never see in any royal garden. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z The bishop’s cloisters, of which only two walks remain, are Perpendicular of curious design, with heavy tracery in the bays. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The river front, raised upon a fine terrace of Aberdeen granite, is 900 feet in length, and profusely adorned with statues, heraldic shields, and tracery, carved in stone. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z But he never did; and the mouldering traceries, the lattices long empty of glass, and the worm-eaten corbels of oak grey with age went on decaying all that fine July. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Lastly, a horse appeared covered to the ground with flesh-colored velvet, bordered with tracery of gold, into which were woven the devices of Nero. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The walls are of light tracery, resembling opaque spun glass, covered with a lace-work of delicate pattern. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z There were old castles with broken ruined towers, battlements, and loopholes; castellated fortresses; cathedrals with fantastic Gothic carving, and delicate tracery, and triumphal arches. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z On the delicate tracery of branches the leaves, that always seem too minute and finely fashioned to be in perfect accord with the heavy roseate fruit, were showing rich copper hues. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z In the place of windows on the gallery floor are circular openings for ventilation, filled with elaborate tracery. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Through the sunlit forest might be seen the delicate green tracery of budding leaves. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z The tracery of the windows and relievos, meant to be definite and airy, appears clumsy and confused, and the whole building flattens into a solid mass, without design or beauty. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z The ball, though having struck nothing but the light tracery of the crown of thorns, was checked in midair, hung there for an instant, and then dropped within the altar rails. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Behind, the rising bank was thick with trees and shrubs ablaze with colour, overspread with the delicate tracery of lianas and, creeping plants. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Farrington was following the finger of the master mechanic, as it moved along over the traceries of white and red ink that crisscrossed the blue print. Ralph in the Switch Tower 2012-03-02T03:00:11.847Z There are no remains of mullions or tracery of the east window. Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History 2012-02-29T03:00:24.937Z This flowing or flamboyant tracery was introduced in the first quarter of the century and lasted about fifty years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The earlier Windows exhibit tracery which consists almost exclusively of plain foliated circles; but in the later examples other simple geometrical forms were employed. The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated 2012-02-16T03:00:02.940Z Each has a projecting cornice on the east side with carved niches, and the western face is covered with exquisite tracery in arabesques and knot-work, and inscriptions in early Arabic. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The willow trees, skirting the road for a little distance, lifted themselves in ghostly tracery against the starlit sky. The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z He was uncle to the great Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St. Paul's, and had enough architectural originality of his own to aim at copying the beautiful tracery of the medi�val church-builders. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z A birch bluff miles away was etched in clean-cut tracery upon the horizon, but though the weary man kept his eyes sharply open he felt reasonably safe from observation, which it seemed desirable to avoid. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Occasionally this arcade consists of a series of beautiful panels containing geometrical tracery, with mouldings of a very minute and elegant character. The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated 2012-02-16T03:00:02.940Z The term is also given to the flowing tracery of the Decorated and the Flamboyant styles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The south aisle of the church pointed towards the house, and through the tracery of a rude window I could see the sky. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z This is the only really beautiful church in Cambridge, the tracery of the windows being exquisite flowing Decorated. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Fretted with windy tracery and drawn out into streaming lines where the gale races along by a fence, snow is not, on Christmas greetings, permitted to be seen. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z The stone is blackened, the tracery worn away. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The term “feathering” is used of the junction of the foliated cusps in window tracery, but is usually restricted to those cases where it is ornamented with foliage, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Never have I seen such finely pointed, tent-shaped roofs, such delicately tapered gables, such carving, and such tracery. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z All this severe architecture of Norman type leads on, as it were, to the more delicate tracery and moulding of the Early English lancet lights of the east window. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z On the boy's face the silver light showed a tracery of bitterness and weariness. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Each of their aureoles bears a different pattern in raised gesso; a garland of flowers, a circle of human heads, suns, a tracery of roses and ivy, or yet again another of oak leaves. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z True enough, there was a significant inward bend at this particular place, and it was evident that the leading of the tracery had partially given way. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z No twig or tracery, however fine, Can bear a tale of joy exceeding mine. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Foxton Church has a most beautiful Early English east window, and some very good Geometrical tracery. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Leafy spirals interwoven with a delicate tracery over the cover. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z Meanwhile, they who act with too jealous respect for their morrow of civilized comfort, reap only indigestion, and crow's-foot traceries for their deluded eye-corners. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z All that tracery work ought to be gone over," he said, "to make the job a good one. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z At the west end there is a large and beautiful six-light, square-headed window, with a rich and peculiar arrangement of a double plane of tracery, the inner plane consisting of three arches. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z The tracery in general is Decorated, but the spire rises from an Early English tower, and the chancel is also Early English, with inserted Perpendicular windows. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The seeds were embedded in the moist clay to form a delicate tracery. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z After 1300 the structure of stone buildings began to be overlaid with ornament, the window tracery and vault ribs were of intricate patterns, the pinnacles and spires loaded with crocket and ornament. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z The vaulting is covered with fan tracery, the spaces between the ribs being filled in with a rich design. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z This is the watchers’ chamber; the side fronting the shrine being filled with perpendicular tracery, whence the monks in charge could easily keep the treasures around them under observation. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z The nave is Perpendicular, but the large windows in the south aisle are really Early English lancets, the Perpendicular tracery being inserted—a most unusual development. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Designs may be scratched on the mould or shape and show as a delicate tracery beneath the glaze. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z After 1250 the windows became broader, divided up, and ornamented by patterns of tracery, while in the vault the ribs were multiplied. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z This was a plain building, flint, with queer old stone facings, a heavy tower, “churchwarden” windows with diamond panes, with not an atom of beautiful tracery from one end to the other. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z Ely has a western Galilee entered by an arch, divided by a central pillar, and filled in the upper part with tracery. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z Above them are the lights of the later fourteenth century clerestory, which, no doubt, originally contained Geometrical, or more probably Flowing, tracery. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The charm of this humorous tracery will invite a rereading of Miss Stone's similar triumph in Capital Punishments, published in the Atlantic for November, 1913. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z One remarkable feature is in the porches, where tracery of an ogival character is introduced in the arch. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z She smiled as she looked up into the green tracery above her head. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z The music here is delicate and frail, like an exquisite tracery of gold lacquer. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Every curve, tracery and adornment was conceived in a spirit of pious homage and of religious duty. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The whole narrative is wrought in the delicate tracery of one whose temperament is obviously the temperament of a poet. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The low sun was thinking better of it, and was shining in through the tracery of the bare branches of the trees outside. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z Next come small single figures, or groups of figures, with or without canopies, with border tracery and foliage; sometimes there are the shields of founders and benefactors. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z The choir has Perpendicular tracery over Norman work, with an apsidal chapel on each side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The galleries were supported by a series of interlaced oriental arches, rich with tracery and filigree. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z He began to stride up and down again, angrily, eagerly, looking out through the tracery of the wistaria as an animal might through the bars of its cage. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The ink was faded and brown and the name almost illegible so that he had to turn it aslant to follow the faint tracery. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Both externally and internally they were richly decorated, and often abounded in emblematic tracery. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z Francesco Talenti carried it on until 1387, making a general modification in the architecture and decoration; the three most beautiful windows, increasing in size as we ascend, with their beautiful Gothic tracery, are his work. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z The clustering pines shook off their duskiness, and grew into definite tracery; an owl that hooted eerily flitted by on soundless wing, and she felt the silence become suddenly almost overwhelming. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z The roof was ornamented with Runic characters and other grotesque and half-effaced inscriptions, while the sides were embellished with Gothic tracery, amid which the letters I.H.S., carved in ancient church text, could be easily distinguished. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Still more elaborate designs, based chiefly upon the square and circle, are shown in the window traceries on page 225, and others will be given in connection with the study of the regular polygons. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z In the glass of this time you find small medallions containing several figures, the surrounding parts being filled with tracery. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z Two flights of lofty windows with exceedingly good tracery admit light into the apse. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Minute seeds mimicked small beetles in shape and in exquisite tracery of patterns. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The moon was shining brightly, and silvered the massive square tower of the fane, the battlements, pinnacles, buttresses, and noble eastern window, with its gorgeous tracery. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Notice the lovely patterns, the delicate tracery, and the fine lines on the diatoms shown there. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z It was a glorious morning, the hazel trees were newly covered with leaves, and the branches nodded over her head, and showed like delicate tracery against the blue sky. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z Their very elaborate tracery is cleverly designed to get the greatest effect from the top light—so necessary in the narrow and dark street. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z This chapel has suffered much from having its tracery despoiled, and a part of it cut away to make room for a wooden seat, called the Bishop's Throne. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Angels with heads bent beneath Gothic tracery receive the flame and smoke that are the thought-sacrifices of two shepherds, who mind the sleeping flocks in their fold. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z 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. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z Often that hairlike tracery seemed to rest upon the sea. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The tracery of a very beautiful Gothic window remains at the unfinished west end, to make one marvel at the splendid proportions of the intended fabric. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z It is fitted up with clustered columns, pointed arches, and fan like tracery; and, in imitation of a cathedral, it has a nave, side-aisles and transepts. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z The garden itself is scarcely worthy of notice, for it is a little-cultivated court; but near by are the baths of the Sultans, with their delicate filigree work, intricate tracery, and brilliant mosaics. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z It is however the beautiful gold tracery laid upon this white metal which renders it so famous. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z The tracery of these windows differs from the preceding two. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital 2011-08-26T02:00:28.290Z Under the centre gable, surrounded by a square frame of Gothic niches filled with half-length figures of saints, is an immense round window devoid of all tracery, but filled with good glass. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The black lace falling from her elbows made a filmy tracery upon her white arms. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Collingwood’s very open admiration was the first tracery upon a page which was humiliatingly blank. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z Some time in this century saw a change in the tracery of many of the windows. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z The ceiling of this is of fan tracery, and its side walls are panelled in five tiers. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital 2011-08-26T02:00:28.290Z This good specimen of Gothic work is upheld by most elaborately sculptured pillars, and arches with extremely beautiful tracery. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Looking up, he could scarcely see the sky, so thick was the tracery of foliage between him and the heavens. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z She picked up between her fingers a strand of the green fern, and looked at its delicate tracery as it lay on the palm of her hand. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Whatever the reason, the new Perpendicular tracery was inserted in many of the windows just as it was in a large number of cathedrals and churches all over England. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z As already mentioned in Chapter I. the Lady Chapel windows are eighteenth century work, probably copies of the original windows, and have tracery of Decorated character. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital 2011-08-26T02:00:28.290Z The east window, which is of most beautiful tracery, was executed from the designs of a Frenchman, Nicholas Bonaventure. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Their yield and swing challenge the grey daylight, and it plays upon them and flings a tracery of swift brightness over the forest. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z When he pressed her to tell him whether or not she had ceased to care for him, she shook her head slowly, marking on the ground fine tracery with the end of her coral parasol. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Careful drawings of the tracery there were made by Sir Gilbert Scott, and in 1877 the work of reconstructing was commenced. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z As on the south side so on the north, the tracery is not the same in all the windows. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital 2011-08-26T02:00:28.290Z Delicate white marble pillars radiate from the Paschal Lamb, which is the hub of the wheel, and three rows of tiny but beautifully-carved arches interlace and form the tracery of the window. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Slim hands she had, too,—beautiful hands, very white and with only a faint tracery of blue veins upon them. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z The pedestal is carved out on its sides into niches, having cusped tracery heads. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z In Fuller's "Church History" the tracery, as shown in Hollar's engraving, appears to be very simple. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z This was surrounded by an arched trellis-work, resembling somewhat in its detail the delicate tracery of a cathedral cloister. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z So befittingly are the trees arrayed in graceful tracery of spray and beads of purpling buds, that their seemly nakedness is as beautiful as attire of summer's greenness or autumn's gorgeousness could make them. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Her wonderful red-gold hair, tinged with its soft sheen of burnished copper, was a perfect setting for the delicate tracery of jewels which completed its exquisitely unconventional dressing. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The Porch has a fine groined vault, with fan tracery, and a rich parapet and cornice. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z This consists of a row of double arches, each arch being sub-divided into two lights with geometrical tracery above. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z Even the cathedral window looming in the background has its exquisite tracery carefully drawn, no scamping the work because it was only the background of an incomplete sketch. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z The deciduous leaves are fallen and withered, but they were not more beautiful than the delicate tracery of their forsaken branches, and the steadfast foliage of the evergreens was never brighter. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Visitors will notice beautiful detailing in the window tracery and concrete finish of schools and railway stations. The City: Zurich 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z The cloisters of Fort Augustus Abbey are beautiful because they are reproductions, from A. W. Pugin's note-books, of real live fifteenth-century tracery. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z The Great West Window.—The tracery of this window has already been discussed in the description of the exterior. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z The ruin is generally in a high state of preservation; the outer walls are perfect; and the elegant tracery of the west window above the entrance has not suffered in one of its members. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z A wide piazza, with the columns made of such light tracery in scrolled plank-work that they seemed to be almost unreal and gave an appearance of etheriality to the whole front of the house. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z The sun had gone down, and the bare trees stood against the cloudless sky in delicate tracery, as in a steel engraving. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z There are six windows in the north and six in the south aisles of the nave, with only a little modern glass in the tracery. York Minster 2011-06-30T02:00:34.813Z This tracery has recently been restored in the style of that in the three end windows; until this was done most of the windows contained Perpendicular tracery. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z Inland, swelling hills clothed in densest jungle—the topmost ridge capped by a delicate tracery of foliage that stands out clear cut in the pure atmosphere. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z It looked years older, it bore a tracery of lines about the eyes and mouth, which, at his age, it had no right to possess. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Dominating the houses on the river bank rose the spire of the cathedral, its delicate tracery silhouetted clearly against the dull red glare of the burning oil-tanks. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z The tracery lights of the vestibule windows are filled with old Norman glass, and the late Canon Sutton was of opinion that the stone tracery had been specially designed to suit it. York Minster 2011-06-30T02:00:34.813Z The king gave 200 fair timber trees out of Needwood forest, and his brother, the Duke of York, afterwards King James II., gave the money for the tracery of the great west window. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z On the finest nights the delicate tracery of bright lines or caustic curves in the guiding star is as clear and distinct as in a printed pattern. Photographs of Nebul? and Clusters Made with the Crossley Reflector 2011-06-21T02:00:27.500Z One is that of Selim Chisti, built of white marble, and the windows with pierced tracery of the most exquisite geometrical patterns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z With backs deeply arched they bounded over the face of the desert like so many alabaster discs—mingling, separating and re-combining in a tracery of flying arabesques. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The clear-story tracery in the nave contains also much Norman glass, probably from the old Norman nave, and in many other windows we can trace similar insertions. York Minster 2011-06-30T02:00:34.813Z The large West Window has undergone several changes in its tracery; fortunately we have pictures showing all of them. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z The Romance, fettered by the rhythm of Latinity, has yet possessed that voluptuous wealth of the ideal and that graceful tracery of thought and wit which have been denied to the other. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z The king appointed each his place, and made Khalaf sit near him, upon a large ebony throne, inlaid with gold tracery. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z The dark colouring of the young leaves now only remains as a faint tracery of veining on the backs of the leaves and stalks, and at last dies quite away as the bloom expands. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Sometimes a single figure, under a Decorated canopy, stands out in a window of distinctly Perpendicular tracery. York Minster 2011-06-30T02:00:34.813Z The open tracery here is very much like that in Westminster Abbey. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z It proved to be a small chapel, half in ruins; the door was time-stained and barred with iron; the window glass was gone; only the delicate wooden traceries of the frame were intact. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z All about them was the delicate silver tracery of the moonlight through the trees. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z The lofty icons seemed to be of considerable age; only a little of the original gilt remained on their broken traceries; the faces of the saints had become quite black and looked uncanny. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z The tracery lights of the east window of the north aisle seem to me altogether untouched. York Minster 2011-06-30T02:00:34.813Z It is lighted by nine high windows, with Decorated tracery. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z The kind of red that is crossed by little purple lines like the tracery of very tortuous rivers on a map. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z He had left out the single mullions and all the tracery. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z It is useless to attempt to describe this vast structure whose buttresses, turrets, gargoyles, canopies and tracery are innumerable and bewildering. Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera 2011-05-17T02:00:17.310Z They lifted their arms against the starlit sky in shadowy tracery, and motionless as a forest of coral in the tideless depths of a southern sea. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z The windows are filled with Perpendicular tracery, replacing the old Early English windows. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z A tracery of branches, bare, against a clear-coloured sky; and through the crossing lines, a little white moon looked through its sky-lattice into the open window of my room. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z It must have its two mullions as before, with the quatrefoil tracery which had remained undamaged in the west window opposite. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z I recognise it immediately as a lionfish - distinctive with its tracery of red-brown stripes and the high venomous spikes all along its back and protruding from its pectoral fins. A fish called Godzilla 2011-05-07T10:57:42Z But the purer method is to keep them down in due relation to the centre, and to throw up the pediment into a steep connecting mass, drawing the eye to it by rich tracery. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Never before had I seen how graceful is the tracery of bare boughs against the sky, or what loveliness there is in a snowdrift, or what grandeur in a wide white prospect. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z The autumnal winds came and blew gently over the great city, scattering upon the tree-tops and velvety carpets of its many parks and lawns their tracery of change. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z Summer, however, found him still in travail with the mullioned window in the north transept; and the mullion and the tracery he was omitting altogether; the bare arch beat him long enough. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z In architecture, the word appears for the small leaf-like spaces formed by the cusps of tracery in windows or panels, and known, according to the number of such spaces, as “quatrefoil,” “cinquefoil,” &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z It is a tracery of three orders, of which the first is divided into a leaf moulding, fig. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Farther on was a bedroom with a vast bed frame, its headboard decorated in gold tracery and plump silk cushions. Magazine Preview: On Libya?s Revolutionary Road 2011-03-30T14:23:43Z The rosy childish face was wan and pinched, the arms looked like little brown sticks, the delicate tracery of the blue veins about the temples grew daily more distinct, the brow grew more like marble.... 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The shadow of the black boughs lay in distinct tracery upon the white surface; there was a vague multiplication of effect, and the casual glance could ill distinguish the tree from its semblance. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z They are dreamlike, allegorical, musical meditations, ambiguous in their veiled meanings, but absolutely clear and perfect in their artful structure, like a work of tracery and stained glass, geometrical, mystical, and tender. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z Look at the tracery of the lines on a camp shell, and see how oddly and awkwardly its tents are pitched. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The word literally means “flowing” or “flaming,” in consequence of the resemblance to the curved lines of flame in window tracery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Even the window tracery is, for the most part, intact. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z So fine was the design upon each chest, and so delicate and intricate the carving and the traceries, that seven long years passed before the seven chests were finished. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z I really fancied that the doorway was in the highest taste of florid Gothic, and that the east window was positively gorgeous in tracery. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Thus, for instance, the roof of Milan Cathedral is seemingly covered with elaborate fan tracery, forcibly enough painted to enable it, in its dark and removed position, to deceive a careless observer. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z So rapid was the development of fifty years, that to pass from the one to the other is like going from the lancet windows of Salisbury Cathedral to the tracery of William of Wykeham. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The interior of the church is of unusual richness and beauty, abounding in delicate detail—recessed altar-tombs, richly-carved sedilia, arched vaults, graceful mouldings, and the window traceries are very pure and lovely. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z All did come safely through, however, notwithstanding the appearance of sundry wild Bedouins, whose weapons and matted locks gleamed in the moonbeam, as their stealthy figures flitted in thin tracery from crag to crag. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Day after day the sunbeams, ever new, shall come and go across its pillars, like a harp touched by an invisible hand, or be caught in its delicate traceries and entrapped down into the shadows. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z It was so, also, during the pause of which I have spoken, when the forms of the tracery were still severe and pure; delicate indeed, but perfectly firm. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The fivelight Decorated window of St. Anselm's Chapel is believed by well-qualified judges to be the most beautiful instance of early fourteenth-century tracery in the country. Canterbury 2011-02-17T03:00:20.527Z I like these early lancets, and I am inclined to question whether the wide windows and elaborate tracery of later Gothic are as dignified and severely beautiful. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z It is a very ancient church, picturesque, and with beautiful lancet windows with delicate traceries carefully bricked up. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Inside, it was solemn with shade, and gorgeous with light which came in through the elaborate tracery of the stained windows, many-coloured, and broken as the sunbeams through a tropical forest. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z At the close of the period of pause, the first sign of serious change was like a low breeze, passing through the emaciated tracery, and making it tremble. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The wild-strawberry has been almost entirely left behind, and instead there is the blackberry-vine trailing everywhere along the rough ground, and casting its purple-tinged tracery over the fallen logs. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The tracery in the east window is still intact, and is very graceful, as may be seen by the photograph opposite this page, in which the variation in the arches is also well shown. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z As if to counteract any additional charm which this glass might otherwise lend to the interior, we find a series of flamboyant traceries over the major portion of the side walls and vaulting. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z As an architectural group it is almost unique in the world, actually a whole quarter of a town, built in little columns, little arches and archaic stone tracery. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Those of the Cathedral of Florence stand quite clear of it, casting their shadows in well detached lines, so as in most lights to give the appearance of a double tracery. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z There the big trees were really green; one could look through the tracery at the blue sky, and forget the great city roaring at right and left, at back and front. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z In architecture the term “element” is applied to the outline of the design of a Decorated window, on which the centres for the tracery are found. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z With the transition comes a change in the flowered capitals, from the acanthus to tracery and grotesque animals. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Then I see how dearly Her Majesty had already loved those marvels now ruined, and all the past of her adopted country, which survived there in the old stone tracery of Flanders. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z It was drawn from the opposite side of the Grand Canal, and the lines of its traceries are therefore given as they appear in somewhat distant effect. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z All London wears crape, variegated with a tracery of white, like lace upon a pall. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z A heavy tide of blood swept over All the tracery of the bitter past, And in a moment more She lay unconscious on a bed of thorny cactus. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Chapels and cathedrals in England have many examples of this type of door decoration, one being a knocker handle with pierced tracery seen on Stogumber Church in Somerset. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The moonlight showed him the faint tracery of a map. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z They mark that the traceries had caught the eye of the architect. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Later on, in the Perpendicular period, these traceries lose their individuality, become stiffly regular, and part of the window below. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Above this cluster of narrow lancets and in order to taper them off gracefully, were placed smaller openings called tracery lights. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z The Pointed arches rest upon pillars, possibly Norman, and above them, below the Decorated clerestory windows, is a series of semicircular arches with flamboyant tracery, a remarkable feature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z It was built of brick with trimmings of Acquia Creek sandstone, on a triangular lot, with a circular tower in front, to which the fine Ionic portico with its delicate tracery leads. Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison 2010-12-20T17:12:10.847Z The forms of the tracery were seized with a childish delight in the novel source of beauty; and the intervening space was cast aside, as an element of decoration, for ever. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The borders are carried up and around all the tracery lights, which are very Decorated in form and do not yet show any hint of the stiffer Perpendicular treatment to follow. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z In the topmost pane of the traceries, the Virgin is seen emerging from a great lily. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z It was richly moulded, after the style of James the First's reign, but the coarse smear of newly-applied whitewash covered its traceries. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z It flexes its tall Gothic arches and intricate stone traceries like a medieval wrestler. Letter From Cyprus: In a Divided Land, Lessons in Living Together 2010-08-15T19:20:00Z In Italian traceries the eye is exclusively fixed upon the dark forms of the penetrations, and the whole proportion and power of the design are caused to depend upon them. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The tracery lights around the choir ambulatory still retain their Decorated glazing. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The tracery lights are excellently treated throughout, sometimes in a most unusual manner. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z We have seen how the inner membrane of the stomach is underlaid by a tracery of minute and numerous vessels, and how some portions of the food are by them absorbed. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers They are elegantly designed with fan tracery, and the windows, since their original foundation, appear to have been enriched with tracery. Cathedral Cities of England In domestic buildings, or in windows of churches necessarily glazed, the glass was usually withdrawn entirely behind the traceries. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Nothing could be more distinctive of the later period than the Perpendicular mullions surmounted by stiffly upright tracery lights, and yet the glazing could not be mistaken for anything but Decorated. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z But little height is needed for this picture, so the traceries above come down low, and are filled by a throng of blue eaglets on a golden ground, the heraldic insignia of the Montmorencys. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z His temples were moist and marked with a tracery of outstanding veins and his hands were clenched. The Law of Hemlock Mountain The choir is richly ornamented with excellent design in tracery work of the Later English style, whilst the east end has several circular chapels. Cathedral Cities of England Much of the lightness of the effect of the traceries is owing to this seemingly unimportant arrangement. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The western end of the choir opens into the antechapel, which lacks its ancient glazing except for the fragments gathered together into the central western embrasure, whose original tracery glass, however, remains intact. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The traceries of the three easternmost choir embrasures are filled with blue eaglets on a golden ground, the insignia of the Montmorencys. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z The boulevard that terraced above the beach lay white under the cold glare of the arc lamps which threw a delicate tracery of shadow from the acacia trees. The Princess Galva A Romance Bar-tracery appears just before the middle of the 13th century, and the great tracery window filling the whole width of a bay, or the entire gable end, soon becomes a most characteristic feature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Enough has been said to illustrate this, as regards tracery; but a word or two is still necessary respecting the mouldings. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z They are reminiscent of the tracery lights of the Lichfield Lady chapel, but here the glazier has been more adroit in the use of his opportunities. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z This same treatment of the traceries may also be remarked in the chapel of the château; in fact, they are all that remains there of the original glazing. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Silk banners hung thereon, upon every one of which a Golden Motto was embroidered, together with various emblems, designs and tracery. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies All this is changed with the adoption of flowing tracery in England its development was purely national, and owed nothing to France. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The system was carried out into continually increasing intricacy, until, in the transepts of Beauvais, we have brackets and flamboyant traceries, composed of twigs without any leaves at all. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The Perpendicular architect, unlike his Decorated predecessor, was not content to leave the tracery lights differentiated from the rest of the window below. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Above these in the roomy oval traceries are scenes from the Passion. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z One glance into her face shows how pure, gentle and good must be the disposition that has wrought the tracery of such sweet expression around her features. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Indeed, the French flamboyant only makes its appearance at the time when flowing tracery was being abandoned in England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" "Its flamboyant traceries of the last and most degraded forms." The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z One should observe what an agreeable use is made of these small angels that people the traceries. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The sun shone through the tracery of the foliage, making a quivering mosaic of light and shadow all about him. The Valiants of Virginia They are ornamented with original designs suggestive of farm life, with such subjects as wheat, apples, or corn and are covered with delicate traceries of rushes or climbing vines. Remodeled Farmhouses Not only window traceries, but mouldings, carvings and other details are changed in character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" They are noticed by Mr. Whewell as forming the figure of the fleur-de-lis, always a mark, when in tracery bars, of the most debased flamboyant. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Windows of several lancets, with tracery lights above them. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Perhaps on close inspection you might suspect the fine tracery of wrinkles on her transparent skin. Woman It is a land without hill or dale, a wonderfully level land, glittering with strange buildings, with incessant sunlight or full moon, and with incessant breezes blowing through the Æolian traceries of the trees. The Wonderful Visit These conceits are worked out most elaborately in the traceries of windows and panelling. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" It was an exquisite jewel in a perfect setting, and Miss Aubrey was soon in ecstasies over delicate pieces of tracery and perpendicular windows. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life The traceries, too, show the most approved treatment of leaves, green vines, &c., as well as some small heads. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Through its high lanceolate windows and the tracery of the two rose-windows Notre Dame was drinking in light and making mock of its ancient front. Woman Little pieces of Perpendicular window tracery, or remains of archways were frequent in the old walls, and a ruined turreted gateway bore witness to the beauty of the ancient architecture. The School by the Sea The window traceries look like bad copies of some northern tracery, only once seen in a hurry by an indifferent workman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" A violet vapour hung about the bare tracery of the tree-tops, and showers of sparkling crystals rained from the branches. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers One must search far and wide to find so pleasing a combination of excellent glass, disposed in such light and noteworthy stone traceries. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Trefoil.—A three-leaved or three-lobed form found constantly in the heads of windows and in other situations where tracery is employed. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The east end is the best part, with its Gothic windows and fine tracery, though otherwise severely simple. Glories of Spain The tympana above this is pierced with eighteen windows filled with geometric tracery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" On the surface of the chintz a delicate tracery of leaves and stalks was reflected from flower-pots inside. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers This little chancel, with its delightful glass gracefully supported by the quaintly carved stone traceries, will remain in one’s memory as one of the loveliest nooks in England for the glass-lover. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Fan vaulting, with tracery and pendants elaborately carved. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Yet its outlines are as fine and as striking as ever, and the columns, stonework and tracery that remain, still bear witness to its ancient splendour. Glories of Spain French influence is seen in the employment of the polygonal apse for the termination of choirs, and in some approaches to Flamboyant tracery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" In both, the primitive mode of working through thin plates superposed to form tracery has been adhered to, and the whole of the ironwork has been applied to a wooden framework. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. The large east window is filled with modern glazing, only the upper half of the traceries above retaining the original red and blue diaper work. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Large windows for stained glass, with rich geometrical tracery prevailed, and much the same sort of ornamental treatment as in England was adopted in richly decorated buildings. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Above the Romanesque side doors are rose windows with rare and delicate tracery, and the south door has a finely carved relief of the Entry into Jerusalem. Glories of Spain In the last quarter of the century, pointed trefoils or quatrefoils are largely used in tracery, and the foliations frequently form the lines of the tracery, without enclosing circles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The traceries of the latter were gilded, and the spaces between were painted with florid groups of nymphs and cornucopias. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The borders are not carried up into the traceries; their design is sometimes a vine, sometimes yellow castles, or fleur-de-lis of white or green. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Exuberant richness in decoration was the rage, and shows itself both in sculpture, tracery, and general design. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The central doorway is fine, but the rose window above is hard and German in tracery, therefore has little beauty, and is of later date than the church. Glories of Spain Flowing tracery makes its appearance in England about 1310, and lasts some fifty years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" I caught a glimpse of rich things, bright and gleaming—of carpets glowing, walls resplendent—of golden tracery and colors. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew Its seven tall lancets are broken into four tiers, and surmounted by handsome tracery lights. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Much of the later work of this period has received the name of flamboyant, because of the flame-like shapes into which the tracery of the heads of windows was thrown. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Through lovely and graceful arches which framed in the picture, one caught the pointed windows of the nave with their rich tracery, above which rose the decorated belfries with pierced parapets. Glories of Spain Up to the end of the 13th century, window tracery had developed in France and England on parallel lines though the English work was always slightly behind France in point of date. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The hamlets bare White, white as Death lie yonder, where The crook�d roadways cross and halt; Like branching traceries of salt The trees, all crystallized with frost, Stretch forth their boughs, entwined and crost. Poems of Emile Verhaeren They are in the tracery lights on the north side of the chancel. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z These in early examples, are always surmounted by high roofs; in late ones, by stone spires, often of rich open tracery. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The large exquisite windows were of rich pointed work, seven bays on each side, pillars and tracery either almost all gone, or partly restored. Glories of Spain The beauty of the lines of the tracery had controlled everything, and the resulting forms of the openings, which presented serious difficulties for the glass painter, had been a secondary consideration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" She is standing very still, her eyes on one of the letters—a square, perfumed, rose-colored letter superscribed in a lady's delicate tracery, and bearing the monogram "H. H." Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Three of the small windows that light the picturesque little baptistery contain effigies of ecclesiastical dignitaries and saints within richly toned borders, while in the small traceries above them are heraldic blazons. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The spires, as will have been easily gathered from the descriptions of those at Strasburg, Cologne, &c., became extremely elaborate, and were constructed in many cases entirely of open tracery. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The lovely glorieta was on one side of us; on the other, by looking through the broken tracery down the silent passage, we caught the outlines of the great church; a wonderful view and vision. Glories of Spain There was a young moon in the southwest—a slender tracery in the April twilight—curved high over his right shoulder as he walked northward and homeward through the flare of Broadway. The Moonlit Way Still, they could perceive that the vaulted roof was a mass of stuccoed tracery, and that the colossal divisions of the wall were of brilliant Sienna marble. The Fortunes Of Glencore Under the centre canopy is St. Martin dividing his cloak with a beggar, and above in the flowing tracery lights are kneeling angels. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The upper arcade of the Ducal Palace at Venice offers the best known and finest example of this class of tracery. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Up crumbling and picturesque' stairways we saw a shadowy procession ascending; the ghostly face of Martin the Humble looked down upon us from the exquisite windows of his palace, shorn of nearly all their tracery. Glories of Spain The thin tracery of the trees imaged itself on the road like a giant cobweb. A Bed of Roses Frescoed walls and gorgeously ornamented ceilings, gilded mouldings and rich tracery, were on every side; and these, too, in chambers where the immense proportions and the vast space recalled the idea of a royal residence. The Fortunes Of Glencore The tracery lights are glazed in red, with white winding vines, and are remarkably like the traceries at Tewkesbury. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The rich tracery was made richer by contrast with plain walls, the loftiest towers appeared higher from their contrast with the long level lines of roofs and parapets. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Windows filled with half-ruined tracery looked on to the garden with its trees and flowers. Glories of Spain Once they passed near a town of considerable size, and he saw on a hill, in the center of it a great gray cathedral, its fine stonework glittering like tracery. The Guns of Europe Upon the original Gothic stone-work and tracery of the chapel, which was very old, had been introduced rococo work in mahogany and brass, angels and trumpets and scrolls. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance The figures on the north of the clerestory represent Roman emperors, and above in the traceries are little devils on a red ground. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Cusp.—The projecting point thrown out to form the leaf-shaped forms or foliations in the heads of Gothic windows, and in tracery and panels. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Some of the painted glass was beautiful, as we had seen earlier in the day, and much of the sixteenth century flamboyant tracery was very good. Glories of Spain At this moment, a fine tracery of grey clouds spread above the great black banks which were driving before the gale; and the moon disappeared. The Tremendous Event In the middle of the 16th century Renaissance ornament appears in place of Gothic canopies and tracery, and blue and white enamels begin to be used in combination with lead glazes of other colours. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Opposite them on the south appear Martyrs and Prophets of the Faith, appropriately attended in the traceries above by angels on a blue ground. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Foil.—A leaf-shaped form produced by adding cusps to the curved outline of a window head or piece of tracery. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Alas! how is it that mere gilding can look so like solid gold—nay, be made to cover more graceful tracery, and forms more purely elegant, than the real metal? Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) Notice how everywhere there are the vaulted ceilings of carved cedar wood, the bubblelike domes, the mosaics, the tilings, the arabesques, the delicate tracery of color, and the marvelous lace work of wood and marble. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Another well-known type of pattern consists of highly conventionalized floral ornament which often runs to a beautiful tracery of “arabesque” lines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The tracery lights escaped practically unscathed, and each contains a complete figure and canopy. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Foliation.—The decoration of an opening, or of tracery by means of foils and cusps. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Many of the earlier examples were carved in panels of geometrical tracery, but their characteristic ornament was either intarsia or gesso, or a mixture of the two. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" There are the well-known geometric figures for the centre, smaller similar figures for the borders, and a mosaic of diamonds or delicate traceries of branches for the ends. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. The chancel of the Priory church of St Mary is an interesting specimen of early Perpendicular work, and the elaborate tracery of its fine east window contains some fragments of ancient stained glass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The south windows retain their original glass only in the tracery lights, but it is planned to reglaze them as nearly as possible like those on the north side. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The simplest and earliest tracery might be described as a combination of openings pierced through the stone head of an arch. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Pewter bowl with a cut out tracery handle. Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology After the meal was over, Anna Belle, at her mother's second bidding, got out the embroidered gown and bent over the tracery of leaves and flowers. Clover and Blue Grass The choir is ornate and beautiful, and the huge Decorated east window, with its wonderful elaborate tracery, is perhaps the finest of its kind extant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The traceries above them are grouped in pyramids of trefoil openings, similar to some in the Lady chapel at Wells. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The architecture of the fourteenth century is called “Decorated,” from the great increase of ornament, especially in window tracery and carved enrichments. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance There are five storeys, of which the three upper ones are pierced with windows; twin arcades side by side in the two lower, and a lofty triplet window with tracery in the belfry stage. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" A little farther along we come to Conduit Hill, in which is situate the Ancient Monastery of the Austin Friars—a fair building, possessing that rare thing, flamboyant tracery. Hastings and Neighbourhood Its tall openwork spire of iron tracery reaches towards the sky as though it would pierce the blue vault, forming a conspicuous object for the eye of the traveller who approaches the city by water. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Above in the traceries are red Lancastrian roses, as well as some Tudor ones of red and white combined. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z So long as the tracery preserves the simple character of piercings through a flat stone, filling the space between the window heads, it is known as plate tracery. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The drip-stones of the eaves were gap-toothed, and the tracery of the screens had fallen out so that zenana-rooms lay shamelessly open to the day. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The geometric tracery of the windows of the west front, and the grotesque cornice carvings on the north side, are exceedingly good work. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield The very richness of the work, the seemingly lavish tracery, the perforated ornaments behind the spring of the main arches, all help to weld it into one abiding whole. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Including the figures in the tracery lights, there are sixty in all—an unusually large number. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z In the decorated style of the fourteenth century tracery was developed till it reached a great pitch of perfection and intricacy. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Presently, he stumbled across a little temple of Kali, a gem of marble tracery and inlay, very dark and, at that hour of the morning, very cold. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel As Katrine held his limp little hand and looked at the tracery of blue veins on the delicate forehead, her heart swelled with pity and tenderness. An Unknown Lover The Virginian creeper climbs over the house, and veils the stone mullions of the deep embayed windows in a delicate tangled tracery of stems and leaves. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History Note in the traceries the red angels, poised upon golden wheels. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z In perpendicular windows spaces of enormous size are occupied by the mullions and tracery. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance I have a recollection of passing through a door with cloisonn�e hinges, with a golden lintel and red lacquer jambs, with panels of tortoise-shell lacquer and clamps of bronze tracery. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel In the sun the shadow tracery of the grille's symbolic pattern lay vividly outlined on the ground. The Tree of Life Oh, these same next mornings of life!—strange leaves in that book of our daily existence, now dark and black-lettered, now bright in all the glories of golden tracery! One Of Them The most striking feature of this tracery glazing is the liberal use throughout of written music, generally supported by angels. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z It is a building of much beauty, with good tracery, and the crypt offers a perfect study of various and often graceful modes of forming groined vaults. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Bronze incense-burners in the likeness of dragons and devils fumed under the shadow of silken banners, behind which, wood tracery, as delicate as frost on a window-pane, climbed to the ridge-pole. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel But as she stood there striped and laced with the darkness of it, there came a queer shifting in the lines of black tracery, a subtle, inexplicable movement to one side. The Tree of Life Besides his chapel, the finest of all—the elaborately executed enclosure of the sanctuary, is one of his gifts: his arms are there recognised, frequently recurring among the various designs of the external tracery. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. These figures all stand beneath canopies, and in the traceries above is still other canopy work, serving as background for gaily tinctured coats of arms. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The front was designed to receive two open tracery spires, but only one of them has been erected. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Only the raw ends of the joists were stopped with white lacquer to prevent the incursions of insects, and the deeper tracery was protected against birds by fine wire netting. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Its tracery flowed round him, molding its pattern to his body. The Tree of Life The ceiling is hemispherical, and ornamented in the Arab style; and one of the walls contains a niche surrounded by Arab tracery. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. There should also be observed the very elaborate treatment of the eastern traceries. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z A lofty tower, surmounted by a fine and elaborate spire of open tracery, stands on one side of the church—an unusual position—and an unfinished companion tower is begun on the corresponding side. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Though it sold shoes or sucking pigs, there was some delicacy of carving or gilded tracery in front to hold the eye, and each thing was quaint and striking of its kind. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Exquisite too are the Ferns, in their arching fronds, so richly cut in elegant tracery. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series It encloses a garden, which, seen through the airy-web of the surrounding tracery, must have produced in this sunny region a charming effect. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. Very interesting, also, are the tracery lights, which consist of pyramids of small trefoil openings, four at the base, then three, then two, then one. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The most remarkable of these brick buildings are the large dwelling-houses, with façades ornamented by brick tracery and panelling, to be found in Eastern Prussia, together with some town halls and similar buildings. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance "It's a great charge," said the Commander, glancing up at the wonderful tracery of steel outlined against the deep blue sky. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen The greys are lost and found among the browns, insinuating themselves into the recesses and tracery on the walls, and every where influencing the warm colours. The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. The superb fa�ade of this church and its sumptuous tracery, had well nigh been the cause of a misunderstanding between the representative of the Spanish Government and myself. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. The corresponding chapel on the north side of the chancel has lost all its ancient glass, except a little in the tracery lights. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z In the large windows of the principal apartments and other similar positions of the palaces in Venice and Vicenza, a sort of tracery not met with in other countries is freely employed. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The tomb below is formed of panels filled with rich tracery, having in their centres shields with carved armorial bearings, and twisted pillars were at the corners; of these two remain. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Stark saw a vaulted roof, very slim and high, etched with a glittering tracery that might have been carving of an alien sort, delicate as the weavings of spiders. Black Amazon of Mars The entire walls, over and round the arches, are covered with deep tracery in stucco; the design of which consists of diamond-shaped compartments, formed by lines descending from the cornice, and intersecting each other diagonally. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. From fragments observable in some side windows, and also in the traceries of both the north and south aisles of the choir, it seems that the Fox glass was also used there. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Thus the belfry grew into the enormous bell tower; the tower roof grew into the spire; the extra weight required on flying buttresses grew into the ornamental pinnacle; and the window head grew into tracery. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The screen that separates it from the aisle, is of three stories, the two upper of open work with tracery. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Stark watched it, watched the chill motes brighten, watched the tracery of frost whiten over Ciara's mail, touch Balin's dark hair with silver. Black Amazon of Mars The royal arms, supported by spread eagles, are repeated five times on each end-wall; separated respectively by statues of saints in their niches, and surmounted by a profusion of rich tracery. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. Twilight brought out shadows and tracery of the structure that supported the transparent dome overhead. Accidental Flight The iron fences that I had seen showed a fine tracery, delicate and graceful, seemingly, as the cobwebs on the morning grass: could they, like these, be woven in a single summer night? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 The design of its tracery is similar, and from this we assume that the edifice was entirely refitted within, if not wholly rebuilt at the same era. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Each bush and tree was coated with rime, and edged with a tracery of delicate lacework. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story The staircase is adorned with beautiful Gothic tracery. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. Some fragments of tracery remain in the south window, which was a very fine one. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) All the windows are enriched in open-work tracery, of a strange sort of Gothic pattern, unlike anything in Europe. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant To right and left, other arms of the aerial maze reached out, throwing vague traceries from cliff to cliff across the valley floor. Pet Farm Thus Ruskin attributes the decay of Gothic architecture to "one endeavour to assume, in excessive flimsiness of tracery, the semblance of what it was not"—to its having "sacrificed a single truth." Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions The intervals of the sculpture are covered with tracery, representing entwined twigs, like basket-work. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. It is cylindrical in form, divided into three storeys of open tracery, and crowned with a cresting of three-lobed leaves. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The minarets of these tombs are most richly ornamented with tracery, sculpture, and variegated marbles. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant There are the tiny claw-tracks almost like frost tracery across the snow. The Story of the Trapper And she wore on her breasts and at her shoulders marvellous clasps of gold, finely worked with the tracery of the skilled craftsman, and a golden twisted torque around her throat. The Irish Fairy Book These are equal to those on the ground floor with respect to the tracery of the walls, unfortunately almost filled with white-wash; but their ceilings are plainer. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. The principal windows belong to the original work, having been merely filled with Perpendicular tracery. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The general style of works of the Cosmati school is Gothic in its main lines, especially in the elaborate altar-canopies, with their pierced geometrical tracery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Beyond the low stone wall at one side the feathery outlines of a wild cherry, pale green, with touches of white blossoms just bursting into bloom, was etched against the sky in delicate tracery. Under Boy Scout Colors What appeared to an observer in the garden as a delicate pattern of tracery was really the ventilating system of the room below. Barclay of the Guides "One ought to be so graceful in every gesture, so perfect in every movement beneath folds like these," cried Kate, still gazing at the fine tracery. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life The lofty clerestory windows are divided into two lights by Perpendicular tracery of late fourteenth or early fifteenth century date, which extends to the level of the passage, the lower part being filled with masonry. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See They were then replaced by large figures, isolated or in groups, but always one by one in the spaces determined by the tracery. Cathedrals of Spain Masts and rigging and cordage are bleached white, like tracery of a phantom ship. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war In general the nave is late Gothic, with the marked tracery of its time in its fenestration. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine I sat for an hour or more in the shadow of a fence line, with the night mists rising and congealing under the pale moonlight like the tracery of frost on a julep mug. The Portal of Dreams The windows were not, however, altered in shape when the tracery was inserted. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See It is broken at two stages by double windows, the upper ones of the belfry being crowned by pediments and surmounted by rich, sunk tracery. Cathedrals of Spain As I entered the large court by the richly ornamented gate, whose bronzed tracery and handsome carving dated from the time of Louis the Fourteenth, my heart swelled with conscious pride. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I The window-openings are semicircular, filled with elaborate tracery in the latter half of the 15th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" His hair and moustache were sandy and his florid face was marked with a purplish tracery of veins in which the blood appeared to bank and stand currentless. The Portal of Dreams In the tracery are very slight traces of the old glass. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Beautiful Gothic tracery surmounts in both tiers the figures that fill the panels above the seats. Cathedrals of Spain With a timid and shrinking heart I walked beside the abb�, across the open terrace, towards the large gate, which with its bronzed and gilded tracery was already shining in the rich sunlight. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I There are three crosses, of which the Great Cross, made of a single stone and 15 ft. in height, is splendidly carved, with tracery and inscriptions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" This beautiful hanging was of fine white linen, but the original fabric was hardly discernible amid the gorgeous tracery with which it was inwrought. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries The clerestory windows contain flowing tracery of an advanced and not very good type. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Everything that could be carved is there, figures, foliage, tracery, moldings and mere conventionalized ornament. Cathedrals of Spain The sculpture is unequalled both in symmetry and in variety, embracing some of the loveliest specimens of floral tracery and the most quaint and grotesque representations imaginable. In the Border Country Her loose sleeves fell back to the dimpled elbows, and as he lingered over his task, he noted the delicate tracery of blue veins along the inner curve of her white arms. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge The Ethiopian, taking the garment, inquired what it was, and how it was made; but its glittering tracery did not decoy the unsophisticated prince. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Plate-glass fills the tracery at the sides, and the door is a piece of solid swinging stone. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Above and around the door of San Juan is a Gothic tracery of the most elaborate character. Cathedrals of Spain This Turkish throne is made of precious wood inlaid with tortoise shell, mother of pearl, and gold and silver traceries, and is set with turquoises. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise No human tracks disturbed it, but the boys saw the delicate tracery where a small animal, probably a field mouse or a chipmunk, had left his spoor. The Blue Ghost Mystery She twisted the sphere slightly, and again the two tiny pips it held were caught squarely at the intersection of the curving light traceries within it. The Women-Stealers of Thrayx The screen is composed of the most light and elaborate tracery, its corners surmounted by a crest; it is open above, but has a rather coarsely-carved canopy over where the altar stood. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Its tracery is composed of a series of colonettes radiating from centre to circumference, every two of which form, as it were, a separate window tracery of central mullion, two arches and upper rose. Cathedrals of Spain Its intricate traceries were capped by a lion rampant, which had pawed the air for generations. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Aloft, spider-like figures, black against the tracery of the rigging, cast down sheets and clew lines in the one place where they must go. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea The old cathedral of St. Sophia, now used as a mosque, is superb in the richness of its design and tracery, and the purity of its Gothic architecture. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The windows of the south-east aisle contain Decorated tracery, but the tracery of the north-east aisle is not good. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Gothic trefoil arches and traceries are carried by classical columns. Cathedrals of Spain But that was in a classic building, with large, plain, single openings without tracery. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass The ceiling is very singular, being an imitation of fan tracery executed in plaster. Old and New London Volume I Its dreary late-Gothic windows and heavy tracery, and the Spartan severity of its unbacked benches, are characteristic of the time of transition, alike architectural and religious, to which it belongs. The Oxford Degree Ceremony Each of the eight sides of the room is occupied by a window of four lights, with graceful tracery of an advanced geometrical type. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The oldest masonry, with its delicate tracery of four arches and three trefoiled roses to each arcade, seems to have been virtually eaten away by time. Cathedrals of Spain The plains were often visible, stretching like a grey sea to the horizon, their surface marked by the silver tracery of streams. Banked Fires No heaviness there, such as he remembered in his father's face: only trouble, pain, and their mysteriously refining tracery. Old Crow Many of them, with their geometrical lattice-work and carved tracery, are distinctly elegant and effective. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" The windows, both of these aisles and those of the transepts, were filled with Perpendicular tracery at about the same time as the clerestory windows. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Netse's wings moved slowly as he walked around the ball, and the violet light brought out the delicate green luminous tracery in his wings. The Wealth of Echindul We entered, and the duke pointed out the groining of the roof and the tracery of the windows. Orientations Was her presence so etched in impalpable tracery on the air that he ought to feel it? Old Crow His efforts in Gothic were sometimes highly successful; often they took the form of the tracery of a church window, or even of an ovalled rose window. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" A tall and light monument stands between the Lady Chapel and St. Catherine's; its crocketed finials, filled with tracery, rise almost to the ceiling. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The wind waved the leaves of the maples, and, high in the air, the blue-burning globes of the arc lamps caused the wonderful traceries of leaf shadows on the ground. The Monster and Other Stories Geometrical tracery in windows, enriched doorways, and beautifully arranged mouldings. The Church Handy Dictionary There is an example of flamboyant tracery in one of the windows. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" The narrow traceries were in actuality four anchor tubes, similar to the one beside which he rode; and mounted in their tip was the directing mirror that would aim Hot Rod's beam of energy. Where I Wasn't Going It was blue, with delicate traceries of silver, silver buttons, and a silver belt, from which depended a pocket, a fruit-knife, and a little drinking-cup. The Princess Idleways A Fairy Story The very walls are wrought into universal ornament; encrusted with tracery, and scooped into niches, crowded with the statues of saints and martyrs. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 The faded blue-figured pillow case, and the feather puff of the same color shimmered white, overlaid with a faint, shadowy tracery, as if made expressly to throw into relief the noble beauty of Maria's head. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Very 206 different in tone is the architecture of the interior court, being that of the period when the lighter traceries and more imaginative lines of the Renaissance were in favour. Legends & Romances of Brittany From the rounded half of the moon, extending sunward, four bright, narrow traceries seemed to outline a nose that ended in a pale, globular tracery at its tip, pointing to the sun. Where I Wasn't Going Through the traceries of its windows and from its towers I looked at the snowy summits of Cilicia across sixty miles of sea. Memoirs of Life and Literature |
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