| 单词 | pyramidal |
| 例句 | It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of a semidivine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Working with the Australian architect Richard Thorp, he impressed the judges with his plan for a roughly pyramidal building sited so that visitors could stroll not just around it but also onto its grass-covered roofs. Romaldo Giurgola, Architect of Australia’s Parliament House, Dies at 95 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Isozaki finally built the museum as a village of platonic solids clad in a richly textured red Indian sandstone, with large pyramidal skylights illuminating the serene galleries below. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z At first, she is only an abstraction: a pyramidal form in a black veil, swaying ever so slightly to his song. In an endless news cycle, art at Glenstone both echoes and quiets the chaos 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Root systems, functioning in different ways, are found in trees, turnips and the pyramidal neuron, which Cajal called “the noble and enigmatic cell of thought.” A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Egyptologists now see the Bent Pyramid as a critical step toward the building of a strictly pyramidal tomb. A Refreshing Look at Egypt’s Ancient Pyramids 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z “The taste for its disconcertingly top-heavy, inverted pyramidal mass grows on one slowly,” the architecture critic for The New York Times, Ada Louise Huxtable, wrote in 1966, “like a taste for olives or warm beer.” The Art of Flavor at Flora Bar in the Met Breuer 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z It is whatever you think it is: a model of the pyramidal addition to Valhalla; a stylized sword or spear tip; purity; energy; antiquity; aspirations before and beyond the complications of reality. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Rising above them all is Lone Peak, a geologic marvel known as a Christmas tree laccolith for its pyramidal shape. At Montana’s Big Sky Resort, limitless vistas and rural charm 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z The shape of the dress, rising pyramidally upward, mountain-like, feels as if it were the real subject of the portrait. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z “The taste for the disconcertingly top-heavy, inverted pyramidal mass grows on one slowly,” she wrote, “like a taste for olives or warm beer.” ‘Friday File’: The Whitney Museum’s 1966 Opening 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Djoser’s Step Pyramid, the first large-scale stone construction in history and the largest pyramidal funerary complex, is located at Saqqara archaeological site, west of Cairo. Egypt reopens its oldest pyramid after 14-year restoration 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Instead his mother prepared toast on the top of the stove, on a pyramidal contraption set on a burner. James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The steps or seats are rows of concrete, with lighting supplied by six soaring steel pyramidal columns that flank them. House Proud: Theater Producers Put Drama in Their Own Backyard 2010-08-11T22:44:00Z This is the thrill of Frank Gehry’s seasick column at 8 Spruce Street, for example, or of the Woolworth, the pyramidal green patina of its peak alert like a little head. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The Chrysler Building fights for air, wedged between an uninspired tall black monolith and a truly ugly skyscraper with a pyramidal top. Travels with My Weather App 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The National Assembly of Burkina Faso, for which Kéré designed a pyramidal building with exhibition spaces and courtyards, has been stalled because of political uncertainty. Pritzker Prize goes to architect from West Africa 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z It was projected on seven screens in a specially designed pyramidal tent. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z Walls of beautifully preserved opus reticulatum — a Roman building technique in which pyramidal bricks are set like diamonds to form a rippling mosaic-like pattern — crisscrossed the desert floor. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z As the tour continues through the laundry room, where her winter clothes are spending the summer, she opens a hall closet to reveal towels and sheets stacked in pyramidal piles. What I Love: Betty Halbreich’s Home Away From Bergdorf’s 2013-08-15T21:40:29Z A mix of old and new, the landmark building maintains its original nine-story Victorian atrium and pyramidal skylight. 7 New Hotels in New York City 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z It forms a lovely 15- to 20-foot-tall pyramidal tree with downy silver-gray pear-shaped leaves that turn pink and yellow in autumn. Q&A: bird feeders and shipova 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Admire the band on its pyramidal riser, like the bleacher seats of Giza. Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” Is a Total Synthesis of the Pop Arts 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Now it is the audience that is at the center, arranged upon a pyramidal seating structure. 2010-01-20T06:35:00Z The spires of a pyramidal stupa near my hotel would serve as my beacon in case I got lost. Visiting Myanmar: It’s Complicated 2012-08-03T16:32:39Z The show’s charming visuals, heavy on pyramidal and Egyptian themes, are enhanced by the brilliantly colorful costumes of renowned British designer Zandra Rhodes, who supercharged every scene with vivid and iridescent images. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Magic Flute’ is a delight for the eyes and the ears 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z More intriguing for our purposes was the pyramidal temporary auditorium designed to screen the movie. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-05-25T14:35:10Z And when they step inside, they enter a bright, white space flooded with light from the enlarged windows and a skylight placed where the ceiling soars to its pyramidal peak above the kitchen. Beach House, Meet Ocean View 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “We redesigned the caliber with a pyramidal shape and an angle of lecture of 60 degrees.” Special Report: Watches: A Driving Passion Influences Design 2011-01-17T08:00:12Z I reached the top of the South Tower, and made my way up and out through a skylight, onto the tower's sloping pyramidal roof, as Brother Quirke came round the end of the stairs. Extract: Jude in London by Julian Gough 2011-08-25T11:18:47Z His most impressive designs — a pyramidal apartment building in Manhattan, a power station in Copenhagen with a ski run on its sloping facade — are cheeky, monumental and ecologically friendly. Google's new headquarters design takes transparency to new levels 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Grant rolled past his second house, white with a pyramidal roof, which previously belonged to Miss Lou, the late shopkeeper. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z “It is a beautiful pyramidal tower at the edge of the Tigris,” said Mr. Tabbaa, who taught at New York University Abu Dhabi and lives in Ann Arbor, Mich. In Syria and Iraq, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Dopamine neurons control movement, mood, and motivation while pyramidal neurons play an important role in memory and language. 'Circular logic' of RNAs in Parkinson's disease 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z “Glory to the great Russian people — the nation of victors,” reads an inscription that was repainted by local officials in June on one side of the 10-foot, pyramidal monument. ‘Learn From Pain’: Why Germany Protects Soviet War Memorials 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The institute said the remains of the eight sacrificial victims appear to have been hacked up and dispersed in an area at the foot of the pyramidal temple, because the bones were found scattered. Mexico finds 8 sacrificial victims at Gulf coast pyramid 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Russia is deeply dug in, having transformed its side of the front into a landscape of earthen barriers, deep trenches and dense ranks of the pyramidal antitank bollards known as “dragon’s teeth.” Ukraine readies along all fronts for Russia’s next big attack 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z It appeared that books the store leaves outside for the community to browse were stacked in a pyramidal shape next to the entry door and lit, he said. Beloved L.A. book emporium the Iliad bounces back after a mysterious fire 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Degeneration of these dopamine and pyramidal neurons plays a key role in the development of neurological disorders. 'Circular logic' of RNAs in Parkinson's disease 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z For example, an atom with four single bonds, a double bond, and a lone pair has an octahedral electron-group geometry and a square pyramidal molecular structure. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z The medulla consists of multiple pyramidal tissue masses, called the renal pyramids. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Russian forces have almost certainly positioned pyramidal radar reflectors in the water near the recently damaged Antonivskiy Bridge and nearby rail bridge, Britain said in a defence update on Twitter. UK says Ukraine's targeting of Russian strongholds pressures Russia's resupply logistics 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z By summer, the dark green leaves provide a foil for pyramidal panicles of white flowers that gradually age to pink. Slow-growing, low-maintenance dwarf shrubs that thrive in small garden spaces 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Age structures of areas with slow growth, including developed countries such as the United States, still have a pyramidal structure, but with many fewer young and reproductive-aged individuals and a greater proportion of older individuals. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z The defining landmark of the medullary- spinal border is the pyramidal decussation, which is where most of the fibers in the corticospinal tract cross over to the opposite side of the brain. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z In 1927, the year architect Lloyd Wright designed a pyramidal modern shell for the Bowl, Native Americans held intertribal ceremonials in the venue. Commentary: What the Hollywood Bowl's complicated history reveals about Los Angeles 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Gray matter was an “orchard”; pyramidal cells were packed into an “inextricable grove.” The Father of Modern Neuroscience Discovered the Basic Unit of the Nervous System 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z The dry May and exceptionally warm June helped unroll carpets of pyramidal orchids across Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire. Wildlife's winners and losers of 2021 - and how extreme weather set the tone 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Two other long-missing turrets — one conical, one pyramidal — have already been reconstructed. Perspective | An old building near Dupont Circle will get a nice, new turret 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z It has a nice pyramidal shape and grows up to 20 feet. Fall is the perfect time to plant a tree. Here are 10 with beautiful fall color 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z In the lab, Mr. Deshpande and his colleagues placed large pyramidal piles of sand on a vibration-dampening table, shut off all the lights and kept the temperature and humidity constant. The Hills Are Alive With the Flows of Physics 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z “Your views to the outside are pretty much determined by the architecture of the pyramidal tower,” said Castanes. For rent: the penthouse atop Smith Tower 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z "From the 1950s onwards, pineapples were bred so that they fitted neatly into a tin. Fruits with a characteristically pyramidal shape, such as Black Prince, became extinct." The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z In the hippocampus, using similar methods, Andersen and Eccles together pinpointed the first inhibitory synapse in the brain, going from basket cells to the bodies of pyramidal cells. Per Andersen (1930–2020) 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The scientific apparatus is pyramidal, and this is especially noticeable in large research groups, with important consequences for mentorship. Lessons for Aspiring STEM Grad Students 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z You may have encountered one of many media reports on these cultish pyramidal organizations, more likely to impoverish than enrich the “independent business owners” who make up their ranks. 'Florida Man' is so over. On TV, Florida women are having their day 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z As an example, Lein points to pyramidal cells—the main “excitatory” neurons that release a signaling molecule to spur neurons to fire—that project from the cortex to the spinal cord. Scientists Start Building a Parts List for the Brain 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Species include the pyramidal, fragrant and common spotted orchid, as well as the bee orchid - the flower of the county of Bedfordshire. Rare orchids thriving on 'new' meadow 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z With a $10,000 prize, the competition received more than 500 entries, with George Ranalli’s among the most striking: a totem-style tower with a sphere nestled in the body and capped with stepped pyramidal forms. A totem in Times Square: New York as it might have looked – in pictures 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Agnelli wrote “a pyramidal Pan European League System with continuity and opportunity to grow from within enhancement of mobility and dynamism across the system through carefully applied promotion and relegation.” Clubs push for promotion-relegation in European competitions 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Both “shorties” can claim to have operated the last truly pyramidal cartels, but neither man really controlled their respective syndicates single-handedly, whatever the judgments at trial. Tale of two drugs lords: from Cosa Nostra to Guzmán – it’s strictly business 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z “Passages,” as the film is also titled, follows Bruno as she improvises movements inspired by the home’s theatrical architecture: the courtyard flanked by Mayan Revival columns, the pyramidal facade, the rich, interior spaces. Lloyd Wright's Sowden House, possible Black Dahlia murder site, becomes a performance stage 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Götz's team, meanwhile, documented that newly reprogrammed neurons around the site of a stab wound resemble pyramidal neurons, which send excitatory signals. Reprogrammed cells could tackle brain damage 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Excitatory pyramidal tract neurons, which reside in a region called layer 5 in the anterior lateral motor cortex, communicate with other neurons located many thousands of cell diameters away by establishing physical contacts. Single-cell sequencing paints diverse pictures of the brain 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Specifically, it appears alcohol impairs the so-called long-term potentiation of synapses at the pyramidal cells in the hippocampus. What Causes Alcohol-Induced Blackouts? 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z A pyramidal obelisk there marks Ground Zero, where the world entered the Atomic Age with the final act, testing “the gadget” — the first atomic bomb — on July 16, 1945. My nuclear family: The legacy of the Manhattan Project 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Instead, the researchers found that Saturn’s inner moons likely formed through a series of collisions between tiny moonlets, known as the pyramidal regime formation scenario. What Made Saturn's Ravioli-Shaped Moons? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Out of Paris, Seem Soaps are multicolored pyramidal and disc-shaped products in fanciful color combinations. You know what could be cooler? Your soap | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Anderson, S. A., Classey, J. D., Condé, F., Lund, J. S. & Lewis, D. A. Synchronous development of pyramidal neuron dendritic spines and parvalbumin-immunoreactive chandelier neuron axon terminals in layer III of monkey prefrontal cortex. Importance of investing in adolescence from a developmental science perspective 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Another Russian effort last year put up a small sat that was designed to deploy a pyramidal reflector, although it seems to have failed. 'Disco ball' put into space from NZ 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The Limón archaeological complex consists of two chambers and five truncated, pyramidal structures on slightly raised platforms. Ancient Throne and Ceremonial Hall Unearthed in Peru 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Deep inside it, section 241 is the closest thing to a bombshell for Putin’s pyramidal power structure. The US sanctions bill is a timebomb for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin | Natalie Nougayrède 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z New satellite images show cranes and trucks around the 105-story pyramidal skyscraper officially known as the Ryugyong Hotel, the Telegraph reports. North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' May Finally Be Opening 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z This procedure was repeated every 2 or 3 days until tetrodes tips were within an estimated 50–100 μm from the pyramidal cell layer. Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s hard to see at first, given how long it takes to unpack its slow pyramidal crime climb, or how well and powerfully told its mob-revenge story is. Review: 'Mafia 3' Squanders One of the Year's Best Stories on Stale Gameplay 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Equipped to explore a set of pyramidal ruins haunted by cultish worshippers and harboring crucial components for an elaborate defense-works build recipe? Review: 'Dragon Quest Builders' Is the Post-'Minecraft' Game You Have to Play 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z And, cruelly, a pyramidal structure based on its victims. The EpiPen, a Case Study in Health System Dysfunction 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z This is a pyramidal room with a triangular opening nearly 30ft tall. Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Designed using stills from Jean Luc Godard’s classic “Contempt,” the image is of a man going up an enormous staircase on the outside of a pyramidal building. Kenny Turan previews the Cannes Film Festival 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Up to 120 people can enter the pyramidal structure. 10 Things to See at Fotofest Houston 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z That sound coming from Harrisburg Monday was the “thud-thud-thud” of a shaky, pyramidal budget deal losing its foundation and collapsing upon itself. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The pressure sensors are made of a carbon nanotube-elastomer composite shaped into tiny pyramidal structures that are coated onto a surface. Artificial Skin Sends Touching Signals to Nerve Cells 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z "He is a not a designer but a couturier and has great pyramidal thinking - turning couture concepts into ready-to-wear clothing and accessories," added the tattooed 59-year-old Italian entrepreneur. Fashion's rehabilitated Galliano proves himself in new job, boss says 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Technicians would install a nacelle near the top, where the monument tapers to a pyramidal point. Going Dutch: Would a windmill change the Washington Monument? 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Stellate neurons are named after their starburst shape, and pyramidal neurons are recognizable by their pointed cell bodies. Neuron encyclopaedia fires up to reveal brain secrets 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z There is another way to look at the pyramidal organizational chart. How To Build A Human Workplace 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Before the Kremlin wall is a small, squat, pyramidal building: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin’s mausoleum. Bury Lenin's Body And The Rest Of Communism: In Red Square He Lies In State, Mocking Humanity 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Still, such structural factors can’t explain all of the increasingly pyramidal shape of wealth in American society. The economy is improving, but not everyone is sharing in the better times If you look at the traditional pyramidal model for how businesses are organized you notice that the precipice of the pyramid represents the board, CEO or president, or organizational influencers due to rank or tenure. The Bare Truth About Hospitals - And Why It's Time For A Revolution 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z “Please be informed that such Statues are applicable to and binding for Members of FIFA, but not per se to entities outside the pyramidal structure of the game of football,” he wrote. Russia gears up for World Cup, despite protests from U.S. senators 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The visual responses of SST neurons are distinct from PV or pyramidal neurons in terms of response latency, size tuning curve and correlation with nearby pyramidal cells. El-Boustani et al. reply 2014-04-04T13:56:29.445Z This narrowing, on the other hand, is present when exploring larger reductions in pyramidal cell firing, consistent with the findings of Lee . Atallah et al. reply 2014-04-04T13:56:10.086Z This circuit provides feed-forward inhibition in combination with excitatory inputs from layer 3 cells of the medial entorhinal cortex, projecting to CA1 pyramidal cells to determine the strength and time window of temporal associative inputs. [Report] Grid-Layout and Theta-Modulation of Layer 2 Pyramidal Neurons in Medial Entorhinal Cortex 2014-02-20T19:26:05.078Z Cleaned and restored, it sits like a ruddy little gem in the Broadway canyon, richly decorated with terra-cotta flora and fauna, belted by alternating bands of varied sandstone, capped at either end by pyramidal peaks. City Room: Spared the Wreckers, a 1889 Building Gets a Second Life 2013-06-02T15:00:19Z One road verge in Warwickshire has the country's largest population of pyramidal orchids. Councils 'destroying' verge wildlife 2013-05-26T02:17:11Z Although it is commonly agreed that these cell types alter the responses of pyramidal neurons in distinct ways—via divisive or subtractive inhibition—their specific roles remain a matter of debate. El-Boustani et al. reply 2014-04-04T13:56:29.445Z Our study performed the reverse experiment, namely the optogenetic suppression of PV cells to increase pyramidal cell firing rate up to 250%, and again found that there was no systematic increase in tuning width. Atallah et al. reply 2014-04-04T13:56:10.086Z Cholinergic drive sustained theta-rhythmicity, which was twofold stronger in pyramidal than in stellate neurons. [Report] Grid-Layout and Theta-Modulation of Layer 2 Pyramidal Neurons in Medial Entorhinal Cortex 2014-02-20T19:26:05.078Z Though its pyramidal tower is well-preserved, its interior floor is covered with modern tiles and carpet, and its altar is adorned with neon lights. Will the Ancient City of Bagan Survive Burma's Tourist Boom? 2013-05-15T06:20:30Z Analysis of pyramidal neurons revealed that cortical deficits were associated with impaired expansion of the dendritic arbor and reduced synaptic density. [Research Articles] Prenatal Cerebral Ischemia Disrupts MRI-Defined Cortical Microstructure Through Disturbances in Neuronal Arborization 2013-01-16T20:25:08.363Z The robot pushed its arm instruments up against a pyramidal rock to assess the atomic elements that were present. Mars rover examines rock close up 2012-09-25T08:48:08Z It is closer to the biological reality of a spike threshold, more parsimonious, and therefore more informative as to the functional effect of PV cells on pyramidal cells. Atallah et al. reply 2014-04-04T13:56:10.086Z In tangential sections, pyramidal neurons were clustered into patches arranged in a hexagonal grid—very similar to the patterns observed in grid cell spatial firing. [Report] Grid-Layout and Theta-Modulation of Layer 2 Pyramidal Neurons in Medial Entorhinal Cortex 2014-02-20T19:26:05.078Z The direct pyramidal tracts occur only in man and man-like apes. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The preceding drawing represents to the eye the forms obtained with cubical and pyramidal nets. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z This is owing to their pyramidal form, which, rising before the eye like the slope of a hill, does not strike the senses or the imagination as much as smaller masses which rise perpendicularly. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z From a shrub to a tree 60–90° high, pyramidal in form; scale-like leaves obtuse or acutish, entire; berries on straight peduncles, about 3´´ in diameter.—Dry hills or deep swamps, common. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Here there is a temple of considerable size, with pyramidal towers rising several stories above the rest of the building, facing the cardinal points. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z The top storey was surmounted by a pyramidal roof, and was lined with four tiers of berths, capable of accommodating thirty people. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z By blowing in, and drawing out the air, now, we actually obtain all the oil pyramidal figures, from those bulged out to those hollowed in. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z The whole was surmounted by a pyramidal roof, ending in a bronze fir-cone. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Fruit a globular or oval mass, composed of the enlarged and spongy spadix, enclosing the spherical seeds just beneath the surface, which is roughened with the persistent fleshy sepals and pyramidal styles. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z These are laid together in long rows, or piled pyramidally, and are protected from the sun by a covering of mud and of boughs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z V. Chaixii, 4 to 5 ft., yellow, in large pyramidal panicles; V. phoeniceum, 3 ft., rich purple or white; and V. formosum, 6 ft., golden yellow in dense panicles, are desirable species. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The same solar worship, the same pyramidal monuments, and the same Ophiolatreia distinguish them all. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z More, if it rained or blew there was at the south-west corner, and entered from the raised walk, an ancient Dutch summer-house of brick, with a pyramidal roof. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Fruit dry and hard, small, inversely pyramidal, 2–4-celled, at length splitting from the base upward into 2–4 closed 1-seeded portions.—Shrubs, with the white flowers densely aggregated in spherical peduncled heads. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Flowers.—In a dense, pyramidal panicle, four to twelve inches long, with mostly erect racemose branches. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z In some of the latest examples indeed, the Buttresses have Set-offs, and, rising above the parapet, have also a pyramidal Capping. The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated 2012-02-16T03:00:02.940Z Innumerable hosts would have failed in lifting those pyramidal stones to the positions which they occupy had it not been for the aid of the device that enabled them to work conjointly. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z And in “Sheaves of Wheat,” the harvest’s standing pyramidal bundles, anthropomorphized, become a circle of celebratory dancers. Van Gogh’s Frenzied Flowers, Starry Skies Thrill in ’Up Close’ 2012-02-10T10:27:23Z In organic organizations, peopled by real human beings, the work, says Christian, is not pyramidal/hierarchical, but rather fractal. How Do You Tell If Your Boss Is A Robot? 2012-02-09T16:54:39Z It differs from the "Western goldenrod" in having its flowers in a pyramidal cluster. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The Buttresses have considerable projection, are divided into stages, and have usually a plain pyramidal capping, and sometimes a plain pinnacle. The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated 2012-02-16T03:00:02.940Z A very elegantly designed white pyramidal monument erected to the memory of an only child. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The tulip trees, when young, are distinguished by 16 their pyramidal shape and beautiful 62 light green leaves; they were at this time covered with their seed vessels, which were full-grown, but not ripe. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z It seems to produce a sclerosis of the pyramidal tracts of the cord. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z But most of these infections do not take place at high-profile pyramidal Las Vegas casinos. Legionnaire's Disease at the Luxor: What Causes It? 2012-02-01T15:45:00.217Z This is like a little square tent, with a pyramidal roof, made of scarlet silk with a Koranic verse embroidered around it in gold. Muslims’ Journey to Mecca Traced in London Show: Martin Gayford 2012-01-27T00:28:53Z A pyramidal monument, supported by fluted pillars, and bearing a small sarcophagus, surmounted by two figures of children or cherubs, holding in their hands a scroll, on which is written texts from Scripture. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The conical summits, most of which were perfectly round and pyramidal, were most singularly formed. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Through a large and apparently open valley, bounded by table-topped, pyramidal and dominant mountains, with here and there fantastically-shaped sandstone peaks, a large river wound its way towards the sea. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z It was the genuine pyramidal sea of the true cyclone, of which vessels caught in these furious circular storms are even more apprehensive than the fury and strength of the hurricane. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z At the east end are two pyramidal heaps of stones with square sloping sides and flat tops, 5 feet high and 4 feet by 6 feet on the top. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The chancel roof is of the same pitch, but of a pyramidal form; it is painted in the same manner as the nave, and is supported by four square fluted columns. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z The evening sun illumined the grotesque pyramidal hills, and their shadows gave us a clear idea of their forms. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z The habit of the crystals may be rhombohedral, pyramidal or tabular, rarely prismatic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The pyramidal roof has turned-up angles, to which are suspended bells, which when agitated by the wind give forth their music. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z He was of middle height; his head, destitute of hair, was pyramidal in form; his waxed mustaches were turned up to his nose, and his voice was almost always hoarse. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z A pyramidal block of zinc at the end of a metallic rod covered with gutta-percha is placed in the bottom of a porous cup containing an ounce of mercury. Hawkins Electrical Guide, Number One Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A Progressive Course of Study for Engineers, Electricians, Students and Those Desiring to acquire a Working Knowledge of Electricity and its Applications 2011-12-24T03:07:54.823Z Then he encouraged Forbes to borrow, indorsed his notes and speculated with the proceeds pyramidally. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Coniferales.—Trees and shrubs characterized by a copious branching of the stem and frequently by a regular pyramidal form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The superior border presents in its median part a projection, the pyramidal eminence, which prolongs at this level the anterior surface of the bone. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z Moreover, there are many reasons for the view that the gray cortical substance in the brain, with its characteristic pyramidal cell, is the anatomical substratum of this kind of nervous activity. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The thread unrolled between her fingers, gently binding the flowers together; the nosegay went on assuming a pyramidal form very well proportioned. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z This pyramidal structure, or Great Temple, as it is generally called, was perhaps rather the base of a religious structure, than the religious edifice itself. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Ginkgo biloba, which may reach a height of over 30 metres, forms a tree of pyramidal shape with a smooth grey bark. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Now, this pouch contains the mammary glands; but the young, being too feeble to exercise the requisite suction, the pyramidal muscles come to their assistance. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z The monuments are in the form of sarcophagi, with pyramidal tops, covered with rich Cashmere shawls, having each at the head a large white turban, and enclosed by a railing covered with mother-of-pearl. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z From this volcano starts a chain of hills—some pyramidal in form, others somewhat rounder at the top—which forms the backbone of the island. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Before the window stood a writing table, and near it a high pyramidal stand of blooming flowers, whose fragrance filled the room. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:49.420Z The most striking characteristic of the majority of the Coniferales is the regular manner of the monopodial branching and the pyramidal shape. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z As a shade tree, the mockernut has real value, showing in winter a tall, slender pyramidal form, with large terminal buds tipping the velvety, resinous twigs. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z If this case is considered, it is well to bring in the general idea of pyramidal space, the infinite space bounded on several sides by the lateral faces, of the pyramid. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z They included portions of all the tracts, the pyramidal tract as well. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z The straight stem, regular pyramidal shape and soft gray-green foliage made it universally appreciated as an ornamental tree and it has been freely planted throughout the State. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z They diminish from the middle of the apple towards the eye, so that the superior half is conical or pyramidal, and not at all similar to the inferior half. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z At first the head is regular and pyramidal, but in old age it becomes irregularly oblong and comparatively narrow. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z This pyramidal space is double, extending on two sides of the vertex. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z She has a triple tiara from which flames arise in a pyramidal shape, and the sun, the moon, and the stars are contained in her vast wings. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z THE bitternut hickory is a tall slender tree with broadly pyramidal crown, attaining a height of 100 feet and a diameter of 2 to 3 feet. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z Some of the buildings appear to have been of pyramidal form, and to have covered several acres. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z All are tall pyramidal trees, with wide-spreading horizontal limbs bearing thick foliage masses, and with bark that contains vesicles full of resinous balsam. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The cutting plane may pass through the vertex, or it may cut the pyramidal space above the vertex. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z From these statements, it is easy to judge what value can be attached to the conjecture that multipolar or pyramidal cells are to be regarded as "mind-cells." The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z Growing with a straight central trunk like the pines, and often clear of limbs for 30 to 50 feet, it has a narrow pyramidal head which in older age becomes more spreading. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z They advance silently, in single file, and form a ring about the “Sacred Stone,” a rudely heart-shaped or pyramidal boulder, which has been touched lightly with red paint. Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls 2011-09-11T02:00:11.207Z At any season this character determines the family name of a group of exceptionally graceful pyramidal conifers. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The proud golden cupola topples, and crushes multitudes beneath its falling fragments; the débris of the gigantic pyramidal gates cover the ground; the remains of the arched bridges strew the ruined streets. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Far to the south-west there is a very striking pyramidal peak. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z Its upright pyramidal clusters of pale violet flowers which appear with the unfolding of the leaves are strikingly handsome. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z This curious pyramidal structure is like the collegiate church of St. Ours at Loches, one of those bizarre edifices which defy any special architectural classification. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Here is a tall pyramidal conifer which is not evergreen. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z From within the parapet, which is not battlemented, rises a rather steep pyramidal roof. 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 races with pyramidal skulls found no place in it. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Occasionally a great square or market place intervened, surrounded by its porticoes of stone and stucco; or a pyramidal temple reared its colossal bulk, crowned with its tapering sanctuaries, and altars blazing with inextinguishable fires. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z One of the problems, according to the OECD, is that Israel's big business houses exert control through "cascading ownerships, pyramidal structures and cross-holdings". Special report: Is Israel Inc. too powerful? 2011-07-29T09:08:59Z It may be large or small; a well-grown specimen reaches sixty feet, with a broad, pyramidal, open head. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The two octagonal turrets that rise from the east end of the clerestory walls with their crocketed pyramidal terminations form a pleasing feature. 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 He symbolized the arrangement of a drama in a pyramidal structure, declaring that it ascends from the Introduction to the Climax, and then descends to the Catastrophe. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The river having been closed with ice within the last two days, we crossed it this afternoon to visit the two pyramidal monuments of geological denudation which mark the limestone range of the opposite shore. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z The most prominent object in looking towards the lake from our camp is a curious pyramidal mound, about thirty feet high, close to the water’s edge. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z The common eastern mountain ash reaches thirty feet in height—a slender, pyramidal tree, with spreading branches and delicate leaves of from thirteen to seventeen leaflets. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z An octagonal stair turret surmounted by a crocketed pyramidal termination stands at the south angle of the inner bay on the eastern side. 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 Small and medium-sized pyramidal cells of the visual cortex of a child twenty days old 110 4. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Most of the original dimension lines have been obliterated, and the original pyramidal roof has been truncated. The Art of Architecture A Poem In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry 2011-06-17T02:00:16.870Z They were pyramidal in shape, and built in stages which grew smaller as the summit was reached. The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru 2011-06-13T02:00:26.863Z The flowers and fruits are large; the whole tree tropical looking, its open, pyramidal head giving each leaf a chance at the sun. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z It is of the form commonly styled pagoda, and, like all the ancient temples of Siva, its sikra, or pinnacle, is pyramidal. Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z Deep layer of giant pyramidal cells of the posterior central or ascending parietal convolution of a child thirty days old 119 14. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Before the house stood a large pear-tree of pyramidal shape, whose leaves incessantly trembled. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z The stately Horse-chestnut is in still greater perfection than it was last month—each of its pyramidal flowers looking like a “picture in little” of the great American Aloe. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z The tree is a small one at best, slow-growing, pyramidal, twenty to forty feet in height, with short, horizontal branches and tough, close-grained white wood. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Each of the temples in Bengal consists of a single chamber, of a square form, surmounted by a pyramidal centre. Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z They occur, for example, with special frequency in the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex, where the bundle of pyramidal fibers, with their immense number of terminal nerve-endings, come in contact with one another. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z One needle, flat; cones 2 to 3 inches long, scales paper-like; tree usually pyramidal and beautifully symmetrical. Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park 2011-05-19T02:00:05.867Z Scattered in the “reticular substance” of the medulla from the upper end of the fourth ventricle to the pyramidal decussation, they merit the collective designation of reticular ganglia. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z One has a compact, pyramidal or oblong head, the other a loose open one. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The sikra of those of Siva is invariably pyramidal, and its sides vary with the base, whether square or oblong. Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India 2011-05-31T02:00:29.133Z A. plexiform layer; B, layer of the little pyramid; C, layer of the medium-sized pyramid; a, descending axis cylinders; b, ascending or centripetal collaterals; c, stems of the giant pyramidal cells. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It is of a round form, sometimes heart-shaped or pyramidal, its rind thick and tough, of a green colour streaked with black. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z An important vaso-motor centre for the brain vessels exists, possibly diffused through an area somewhere between the thalamus and subthalamic region above the pyramidal decussation below. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z They are all pyramidal trees with flowers and fruits of the coniferous type. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z For the teeth of rasps, a pyramidal punch is used. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The master, raising his fingers in a pyramidal form, passed his hands all over the patient's body, beginning with the head, and going downward over the shoulders to the feet. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z All power must be pyramidal to be secure. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z There were no true arches, but the corridors had pyramidal arched vaultings. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z On the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon it reaches occasionally two hundred and fifty feet in height, differing from magnifica in being round-topped instead of pyramidal before maturity. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z There advanced to meet us across the black and white tile floor a tall and majestic young lady with pyramidal yellow hair and a black satin gown which fitted her most snugly. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z In some so much of the pyramidal tract remains uncrossed that there may be decided weakness on the same side as the lesion in the brain. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z They gradually, however, partook of the ornamentation of the font itself, and are often of pyramidal and conical forms, highly decorated with finials, crockets, mouldings and grotesques. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The whole is engraved in line upon a shield shaped tablet, with a truncated pyramidal base, bearing on it the words "one" and "cent," on either side of the figure "1." History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America 2011-03-14T03:01:03.623Z It is a noble pyramidal tree that reaches two hundred feet in height and a maximum trunk diameter of ten feet. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z In essence the design consists of a building, having two storeys for rubber-drying, and a shallow inverted pyramidal base, ending on the ground in “Third Mile” furnace, already described and illustrated. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z So a sort of pyramidal system grew up, varying widely in different localities, permitting at first a considerable play of violence and private warfare but making steadily for order and a new reign of law. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z There are three stories, the whole being surmounted by a pyramidal structure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The great attraction of the sale was "The Hindoo Lingam God," consisting of a chrysoberyl cat's-eye fixed in a topaz, and mounted in a pyramidal base studded with diamonds and precious stones. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z Three genera of pyramidal conifers, with light, graceful leaf-spray, and small woody cones, held erect, compose the group known as cypresses. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The pyramidal shadow of the mountain reached across the whole island, and far into the sea on the other side. Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos 2011-03-02T03:00:27.050Z Here is a steel die with an elegant pyramidal pattern; the half of a watch-key. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z Stratified Ciliated Epithelium.—In this variety the superficial cells are ciliated and columnar, between the bases of these are found fusiform cells and the lowest cells are cubical or pyramidal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The Gascon compares the pyramidal roofs which cap either tower—and with some justness, too—to the pyramids of Egypt, and for that reason the towers are, to him, the most wonderful in the universe. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The dwarf juniper departs from the pyramidal pattern and forms a loose, open head above a short, stout trunk. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Iliniza, which stands west by north of Cotopaxi, has two pyramidal peaks, and is one of the most interesting mountains of the Ecuadorean group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z In a demonstration I witnessed, a scientist asked the question, “What proteins are involved in signal transduction and are related to pyramidal neurons?” Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality 2011-01-04T16:19:13.503Z For pyramidal pieces, cut the bread into one inch squares and cut diagonally across the cube. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z The choir-chevet is a magnificent pyramidal mass of piers, pinnacles, and buttresses of much elegance. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z His temple at Mexico departed altogether from the pyramidal type that we have described. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z Occasionally, from the top of the isthmus, a nearly but not quite median pyramidal lobe runs up toward the hyoid bone, while in other cases the isthmus may be absent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z The Wild Pear, or Choke-pear, is a small tree, from twenty to sixty feet in height, of somewhat pyramidal form. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z A circle of pyramidal pieces makes a good border to inclose minced meat, creamed fish, etc. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z A tower of rather heavy proportions is to-day capped with a pyramidal slate or timbered apex after the manner of the western towers at Rodez. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z He had a great pyramidal teocalli of nine stages erected in his capital for the worship of the god of heaven, to whom he brought no offerings except flowers and perfumes. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z In Colymbus the patella is reduced to a small ossicle, its function being taken by the greatly developed pyramidal processus tibialis anterior; in Podiceps and Hesperornis the patella itself is large and pyramidal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The Wild Apple has not the pyramidal form of the Wild Pear, the branches spreading more widely when young and drooping when older, so that the head is rounded. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Garnish the dish with aspic, with flowers, or leaves; or, if socle is not used, pile the pieces in pyramidal form and garnish. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z They were not cluttered with giant pyramidal stacks of toilet paper or bottled water. | The Stupor Market 2010-11-19T12:30:00Z They contained gigantic stone statues, gates cut out of monoliths, and the well-known pyramidal structures of which we have spoken already. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z All toes webbed, fourth largest, hallux short; metatarsus laterally compressed; tibia with high, pyramidal crest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z In proportion to the height of the trunk, for example, the main branches are much shorter, the result being a more regular pyramidal outline, terminating in a light spire. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Their temples, with large terraced pyramidal bases, were in the charge of an exceedingly large priesthood, to whom the education of the young was entrusted. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis They are pyramidal in form, rising in a series of stories. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Here there are numerous ruined towns with most elaborate sculptures, lofty pyramidal structures serving as temples or forts, statues, picture writing, hieroglyphics, roads, aqueducts, bridges, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The arrangement of the pyramidal faces n and u in fig. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The Douglas Fir is of pyramidal outline, with the lowest branches bending to the ground under their weight of branchlets and leaves; above, they spread horizontally, but the uppermost are more or less ascending. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z At Freiberg, in certain stalactites, Rose also discovered forms consisting of six pyramidal cells around a spherical nucleus. The Mechanism of Life Yet the vision remained, painted upon the darkness, as it were, a sun-lighted glowing spot, with three pyramidal rocks and a clump of scraggly live oaks. Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch Acroceph′ali, tribes of men distinguished by pyramidal or high skulls. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Apatite frequently occurs as beautifully developed crystals, sometimes a foot or more in length, belonging to that division of the hexagonal system in which there is pyramidal hemi-hedrism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The early square towers of Romanesque churches were sometimes surmounted by pyramidal roofs of low pitch. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance It is somewhat pyramidal in form, about 1� in. long, and 1 in. broad in its widest part. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Around this ran a light iron rail, a wide funnel rose about the middle, and a low pyramidal structure pierced with small sight-holes served to protect the pilot. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 This great stone, now split in two, is at the middle of the lowest step of one of the pyramidal tombs. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The head is raised into a pyramidal crest far beyond the occiput, there is no outer ear, nor a drum-cavity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The proportions of Gothic buildings were well studied, their forms were always lofty, their gables sharp, and their general composition more or less pyramidal. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance These are derived chiefly from the collaterals of the pyramidal cells and of the centripetal fibres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" They are “large, pyramidal, terraced structures, often faced with stones, conical mounds of earth and walls of stone.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Then the vessel that was detached to represent the enemy lowers over her side a pyramidal target of white canvas with a black spot painted in the centre. Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 In the corner of the plaza now occupied by the cura's house, the yard of which contains the well and cisterns, once stood a pyramidal mound with a building upon it. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. On the other sides the stones rose in a pyramidal form, but without steps. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. In certain parts of the brain the fibres of this reticulum are more closely set, and form the band of Bechterew in the superficial part of the small pyramidal cell zone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" But the nearest ridge of its stupendous pyramidal base was yet a full sixteen miles distant! A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois C. pyramidalis, with numerous flowers forming a tall pyramidal inflorescence, is a handsome species. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Engraving 10: Pyramidal Mound and Building at Labn� The plate opposite represents a pyramidal mound, holding aloft the most curious and extraordinary structure we had seen in the country. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. Though diminishing as it rises, its shape is not exactly pyramidal, but its ends are rounded. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. The apices of the pyramidal perikarya are turned towards the free surface of the cortex. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The roofs of which he spoke were great pyramidal shapes protected with lead, and they covered in the ceilings on which Bayeu's frescoed cherubs cut their lively pigeon-wings and pirouettes. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The effect of the gale blowing at right angles to the original swell was to pile up the billows in great writhing pyramidal masses. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 P. convex then plane, shining, bristling with acute, deciduous pyramidal warts; g. adnexed; s. solid, scaly, base bulbous, rooting, ring distant; sp. European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae It is about one hundred and eighty feet square at the base, and rises in a pyramidal form to the height of eighty feet. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. These bundles taper and are resolved into isolated fibres in the upper parts of the pyramidal layers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Neither makes a good flat-topped hedge of the ordinary kind, as the growth is distinctly pyramidal, and unless kept to a point is apt to get injured by snow. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens He stood before the flower-stand, which was artistically arranged, by an invisible contrivance, in a pyramidal shape, and all so well cared for and ordered, that it was a pleasure to behold it. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Thus in the pyramidal texts we find ḫpr, “become,” written in one copy of a text, in another . Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" It is of nearly pure gold with a broad bowl and a high foot, the cover pyramidal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" We pushed on rapidly, and in a few moments more I stood upon the summit of the pyramidal structure, upon which, as a base, the ruins known as El Palacio are situated. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. The flower panicles are erect, branching, and pyramidal, frequently 1 foot in diameter at the base. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens They very often set up pyramidal stones and pillars, which they color with puccoon, and other sorts of paint, and which they adorn with peak, roenoke, &c. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts Over them rises a beautiful pyramidal canopy, cusped below, flanked by pinnacles rising from the ground, the whole richly foliaged and finialed. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West The structure is pyramidal in form, the general membership making up the base and the office of first secretary occupying the apex. Area Handbook for Bulgaria In a few seconds I stood alone, in a large open space, surrounded upon all sides by lofty stone edifices, erected upon huge pyramidal structures, that resembled the forest-covered mounds at Palenque. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. V. macrocephalum is by far the most striking plant, its large, rounded or pyramidal trusses of pure white flowers being unequalled among the Viburnums. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The business center, dotted with helicopter landing fields on top of the pyramidal buildings, was reminiscent of the classic Babylon and Nineveh. The Brain A noticeable and somewhat unique feature however must not be forgotten,—the cover of the font, pyramidal in shape, of oak panelled and crocketted, and richly gilded. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Patterned after the Soviet model, these principles call for a pyramidal form of command responsibility in which lower party organs are subordinated to the next higher body. Area Handbook for Bulgaria The temples were generally pyramidal structures of enormous magnitude. Hernando Cortez Makers of History The Ark. A curious structure, raised pyramidally in four tiers, with open arcades, in which birds and beasts are seen. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See In that case the radioactive pyramidal cells will overheat and decompose. The Brain The figure is of alabaster, with pyramidal head-dress, gown richly embroidered and gilt, and mantle, on which are traces of crimson colour, the head rests on a cushion originally guarded by angels. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West National policy decisions reach the grass roots level through the pyramidal system of people's councils. Area Handbook for Bulgaria Advancing to the principal pyramidal temple of Tabasco, which was an enormous structure, with a vast area upon its summit, they wound around its sides in the ascent. Hernando Cortez Makers of History The roof was pyramidal, heavily thatched with layer after layer of straw. The Golden Skull No country in the world can compare with India for the exposition of the pyramidal cross.... The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Pith of the twigs brown; inflorescence pyramidal Elder, Sambucus racemosa. 3a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State The trunk tapers rapidly and bears a rounded pyramidal crown. The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park The capital was that night illuminated with great brilliance, and the splendor of the great pyramidal temple, blazing with innumerable torches, gleamed far and wide over the lake. Hernando Cortez Makers of History In the thickly wooded districts, the ants' nests are pyramidal in form, and five feet high, being constructed with even more uniformity than human hands could produce. The Pearl of India By pyramidal towers placed crosswise the Hindoo also displayed the all-pervading sign of the cross. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Heads more or less uniformly distributed along the length of the branches, forming a cylindrical or pyramidal inflorescence, never flat-topped — 146. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State At leading points of this sort, it is usual for the distances of towns towards all the four quarters of the world to be inscribed on a pyramidal post. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels Cortez then expressed the wish that he might be conducted to the great pyramidal temple, which reared its lofty structure from the heart of the city. Hernando Cortez Makers of History The flower of the talipot is a tall, pyramidal spike of pale yellow blossoms, standing twenty feet above its heavy dark-green foliage like a huge military pompon. The Pearl of India Structures of a pyramidal style, which are common in India, were also discovered in Mexico. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning The human is as little disposed to look unquestioning at these pyramidal salt-crystals as to look at the pyramids of Egypt without inquiring whence they came. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The other species of Celosia cultivated are C. pyramidalis, with a pyramidal inflorescence, varying in colour in the great number of varieties, and C. argentea, with a dense white inflorescence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Fifty men ascended the winding stairs to the summit of the pyramidal temple, tore down the massive wooden idols, and tumbled them into the streets. Hernando Cortez Makers of History The pyramidal group, formed by an old man and four female figures, is superlatively lovely; the countenances wonderfully expressive, and sparkling with animation. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 The great dome of the central building, as well as the pyramidal roofs of the towers, were set all over with thousands of sparkling gold and silver stars. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. St. Michael’s Mount is a pyramidal rock in Mounts Bay on the coast of Cornwall. Minor Poems by Milton The stopping of the young shoots must be regulated by the consideration whether bushy or pyramidal plants are desired. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" The reader was, perhaps, surprised by the smallness of the number to which our foregoing analysis reduced Alpine summits bearing an ascertainedly peaked or pyramidal form. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Walking cautiously under the thick and dark masses of shrubbery and trees, she reached the arched path near the clump of pyramidal deodars, whose long, drooping plumes were fluttering in the evening wind. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part It lifts the summit of its pyramidal mass out of a wealth of luxuriant vegetation, which sweeps down to the very margin of a sea as blue as the sky above it. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Fuchsias.—They require to be accommodated with a warm, moist temperature, both at top and bottom, and the free use of the syringe, to make them large pyramidal specimens. In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year Showing the Most Successful Treatment for all Plants Cultivated in the Greenhouse, Conservatory, Stove, Pit, Orchid, and Forcing-house The temples were very numerous, generally merely pyramidal masses of clay faced with brick or stone. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West In the reflex, the lower center is aroused by a sensory nerve, and in the voluntary movement by the pyramidal tract. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life They are usually pyramidal in habit, often having the form of double six-sided pyramids with the triangular faces deeply striated parallel to their shorter edges. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Two hundred yards away, on the port bow, floated a white pyramidal frame in the fierce glare of the ship's search-light, and from it, at irregular intervals, came the warning toll of a heavy bell. Campaigning in Cuba The tree grows rapidly; it flourishes best in a sandy, somewhat moist loam, and attains a height of 50 to 60 or more ft., assuming a pyramidal outline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Scarcely waiting for his commands the Spaniards moved toward one of the principal teocallis, or temples, which rose high on a pyramidal foundation with a steep ascent of stone steps in the middle. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West The motor area of the brain has no direct connection with any muscle, but acts through the pyramidal tract on the lower centers, which in turn act on the muscles. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life English, with his quaint Southwestern wit, had become in Mexico a welcome occupant of the large pyramidal tent which housed the correspondents attached to the Expedition. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Summit behind summit rise its pyramidal ranges, or down to the very grass sweep the circlets of its boughs; so that there is nothing but green cone, and green carpet. Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' There also was the Anemodoulion, a beautiful pyramidal structure, surmounted by a vane to indicate the direction of the wind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" The teocalli itself was a solid pyramidal structure of earth and pebbles, coated on the outside with hewn stones, the sides facing the cardinal points. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West The lower center can be aroused in quite another way, and that is by nerve currents coming from the brain, by way of the motor area and the pyramidal tract. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life I doat on them; in my next venture, I am going to have colour printing; it will be very laborious, six blocks to cut for each picter, but the result would be pyramidal. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Nor is it only softer, but in one sense more cheerful than other foliage, for it casts only a pyramidal shadow. Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' The pyramidal temples of Benares communicated by vaulted paths with the Ganges, as the chamber of Cheops communicated with the Nile. Old Roads and New Roads Occasionally a great square intervened surrounded by its porticoes of stone and stucco; or a pyramidal temple reared its colossal bulk crowned with its tapering sanctuaries, and altars blazing with unextinguishable fires. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West These are cerebral influences acting by way of the pyramidal tract upon the spinal center for the reflex. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life The smaller figures represent pyramidal hail, common in France, and occasionally in Great Britain. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World A Mexican aristocrat, small and slender, of a subtle, winsome beauty, with the prettiest mouth and the most pyramidal of crinolines, she had reminded Bazaine of his first wife, and he had courted her. The Missourian The pyramidal top is octagonal, and bears an inscription recording its restoration after damage by lightning; the lower portion seems to be original. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia At regular intervals the box bushes were clipped into pyramidal shapes, and it was here that the Consul delighted to pace up and down. Skipper Worse Injury to the motor area or to the pyramidal tract does not destroy reflex movement, but cuts off all voluntary movement and cerebral control. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life In this principle are included long perspectives, pyramidal forms in architecture, and certain processional compositions.” Needlework As Art The spire is generally acknowledged to have originated from the small pyramidal roof so frequently found on Saxon and Norman towers. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them It is 20 ft. square and more than 100 ft. high, with four stories separated by ornamented string courses, a base and a pyramidal top. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The execution of the structure unites a happy mixture of boldness in outline, and delicacy in details: its pyramidal form is graceful. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy The upper part of this path, consisting of axons issuing from the giant pyramids of the motor area and extending down into the spinal cord, is the pyramidal tract. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life For pyramidal surfaces, such as pediments, a progressive ornament is the fittest. Needlework As Art It is, however, invariably a plant of moderate size, of pyramidal form, having a straight stem from which spring numerous branches, and a cluster of large leaves at its base. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 It is a rectangular wooden box with a pyramidal lid, to which the silver plates are nailed. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia In the middle of it rises a pyramidal canopy of open stone-work; and upon the wide transom-stone over the door, is sculptured the genealogical tree of Christ, arising from the root of Jesse. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy The "Motor path" is the pyramidal tract, only the beginning of which is shown here, its further course being indicated in Fig. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Further, I admit that the bases would become pyramidal in case the bees should set about constructing double instead of single layers of cells on the same principle. Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications In born criminals and epileptics there is a prevalence of large, pyramidal, and polymorphous cells, whereas in normal individuals small, triangular, and star-shaped cells predominate. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso It has five stories and an octagonal pyramidal termination. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The twin spires rise gracefully for perhaps two hundred and fifty feet, and are after the best manner of the great Gothic builders; of true proportions, and of the dwindling pyramidal form so much approved. The Cathedrals of Northern France Adjoining the north transept, and approached through a beautiful vestibule, is the chapter-house, an octagonal building sixty-three feet in diameter and surmounted by a pyramidal roof. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Yet perhaps that which contains in itself the greatest number of the elements of beauty, is the medium-sized pyramidal tree, be it of spruce, Norway pine, or balsam fir. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Also the transition from the small superficial to the large pyramidal cells is not so regular, and the number of nervous cells is noticeably below the average. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Upon the pyramidal cover are medallions of the symbols of the Evangelists in lower relief, with bands of running ornament along all the angles. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The diminishing or pyramidal effect of the towers and gable of this west fa�ade is an exemplification of the true symmetry of136 Gothic form. The Cathedrals of Northern France A pyramidal rock rises on one hand, a range of serpentine cliffs on the other, and a flat-topped island in front. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel It unites at once, in its pyramidal shape, the strength and majesty of the old, and in its gracefully curved limbs and abundant leaves, the beauty and freshness of the young tree. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy In the plan of detached buildings like the Birs-i-Nimrud, we are reminded of the pyramids of Egypt, which no doubt suggested the idea of pyramidal monuments to all subsequent building peoples. Architecture Classic and Early Christian The whole finishes with a pyramidal spire, imitating the Venetian campanile. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The western towers, with their spires, follow the truest pyramidal form, and, though carrying both pointed and round-arched openings, are in every way representative of the best work of their period. The Cathedrals of Northern France High upon a pyramidal headland stands the ancient chapel where in the olden time the forefathers of the village prayed to St. Nicholas for deliverance from shipwreck. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel A tall and beautiful cultivated tree, with the branches growing out from the trunk more abruptly than those of the American Elm, and thus forming a more pyramidal tree. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination They are generally of a pyramidal shape, several storeys in height, covered with intricately cut mouldings and other fantastic embellishments. Architecture Classic and Early Christian The most conspicuous is an artificial pyramidal mound, upon the top of which is a stone building two stories in height, supposed to have been used as a sacrificial temple. The Mayas, the Sources of Their History Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries His body is short and thick and square; his legs even thicker, and his feet turn out too much; the general effect is almost pyramidal. Another Sheaf A grand range of mountains rises around, the pyramidal form of Croagh Patrick dominating the quay. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule A medium-sized tree, 40 to 70 ft. high, pyramidal in form. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination We passed between the twin-looking, abrupt, pyramidal hills, composed of huge disjointed blocks of granite, which lay piled above each other in grand confusion. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. Sometimes the hat rose up in pyramidal majesty; sometimes it was shut in like a telescope wanting to be pulled out. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 There was a little counter, with little pyramidal heaps of cigarette packets and cigars, of the genuine Havana brand, distributed upon it. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba A larger picture, belonging to the middle time of his Florentine period, is in the Munich Gallery—the Madonna Canignani, which presents a peculiar study of artificial grouping, in a pyramidal shape. Six Centuries of Painting A tall, open, pyramidal, rapid-growing tree, 60 to 100 ft. high, with the branches in regular whorls, spreading and very resinous. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination Our way led due east up the amphitheatre and toward Mount Brewer, as we had named the great pyramidal peak. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers A close-fitting untasseled skull-cap does not improve the form of the head, for it is not half so graceful as the hair; but a square hat or pyramidal cap is truly detestable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 We spent a long summer’s day amidst its desert recesses, and saw the sun set behind its wilderness of pyramidal hills. Leading Articles on Various Subjects At the top, square balconies or bartizans project diagonally from the corners; the whole, though there are but three pyramidal battlements on each side, being even more strongly fortified than the rest of the church. Portuguese Architecture A beautiful pyramidal tree, with graceful drooping branches and light silvery foliage. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination And the learned Greaves leads us to conclude this image of Diana to have been nothing but a conical, or pyramidal stone, that fell from the clouds. Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen from the Clouds, Both in These Days, and in Antient Times A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done 11 more work than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities. The Book of Khalid Let us refer to a few of the localities where these pyramidal structures are most conspicuous. Prehistoric Structures of Central America Who Erected Them? Outside, the chancel has good buttresses at the angles, and is crowned by that curious boat-like corbel table seen at Santarem and by a row of pyramidal battlements. Portuguese Architecture Cut a fine rich puff paste rolled thin, with tin shapes made on purpose, one size less than another, in a pyramidal form, and lay them so. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Most of the tombs, however, are in the form of small square houses, with low pyramidal roofs; some of these were tiled, others thatched. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island In one corner was a large chart-stand, covered with rolls of maps and nautical instruments, while above were suspended, by white rope grummets, a pyramidal line of spy-glasses and telescopes of all sizes and make. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life The same sort of pyramidal structures remain in admirable preservation conspicuous at Palenque, in Chiapas, where an immense pyramid still exists standing in great perfection with an elegant temple upon its top. Prehistoric Structures of Central America Who Erected Them? The top of the mountain, as seen here, being of a pyramidal form, it is much grander than with the broken outline, and stage above stage, as seen from the neighbourhood of Luss. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 Sometimes each arm produces several smaller arms, and on the head stands a pyramidal groupe of smaller heads. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton In another, it takes place between a rotary drum covered with a steel plate punched with vertical bulbs, and a chilled iron hulling-plate with pyramidal teeth cast on the plate. All About Coffee They are of different forms, and present the appearance of filaments, spikes, and jets of liquid fire; others are pyramidal, convoluted, and parabolic. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' These remains, to which we have referred, have far greater importance in our investigation than can be attached to the mere building of pyramidal structures. Prehistoric Structures of Central America Who Erected Them? The pyramidal and rubro-spinal tracts, in addition to conveying motor impulses, convey impulses that influence muscle tonus and the deep reflexes. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. It forms many irregular sub-angles, and is diversified in effect by numerous towers, with green pyramidal roofs; abutments and buttresses; and a series of guard-houses at intervals along the top. The Land of Thor On the north, seated on a pyramidal hill, is the ancient Fiesole, which the genius of Milton has touched and immortalized. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge We approached it this day from the shore in the direction in which the eminence it stands upon assumes the pyramidal form, and itself the tower-like outline. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland At a distance the gradual diminution of their size may give a pyramidal appearance to the mass of which they form a part, but their walls are vertical. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 The pyramidal tract conveys impulses that inhibit muscle tonus, while the rubro-spinal tract is the path by which excitatory impulses travel. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. A little aft of “midships” a pyramidal lump of fatty substance projected several feet above the line of the vertebras. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Then one or two pyramidal heaps of cannon-balls by the side of the road, marked this out as unlike all other roads I had ever traversed. Daisy At its summit rise a number of pyramidal pinnacles. The Mines and its Wonders Side by side with these pyramidal temples the Assyrians seem to have placed others of a less ambitious kind, dedicated, no doubt, to deities of the second rank. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 The pyramidal tract is the more important clinically. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. In fact, the whole pyramidal mass which supported the tree was nothing more than a thin shell, all the heart having perished by decay. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West To the right is another of the pyramidal groups, fifteen "Doctors of the Church," some of whom are represented disputing and discussing points of theology. Luca Signorelli The Indian had selected, for this desirable purpose, one of those steep, pyramidal hills, which bear a strong resemblance to artificial mounds, and which so frequently occur in the valleys of America. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 The badge in Japan was a spirally twisted pyramidal cap of linen, about a foot and a half high. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era From the pyramidal cells in the cortex of the Rolandic area, the axis cylinders pass through the centrum ovale towards the base of the brain. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. The huge pyramidal buttresses of the trees, so characteristic of these coniferae, barred my way; and, in passing around them, I soon lost all knowledge of my direction. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The teocalli itself was of the usual pyramidal shape, and five stories high, coated on the outside with hewn stones. The True Story Book They then assume a pyramidal but round shape, and are decorated around by small figures resembling Lingas, while a larger Linga surmounts the whole building, forming the apex of the temple. Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Five great pyramidal towers, four of them on the points of the compass, meet the eye as one looks upon the temple from a distance. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions From the internal capsule, the motor fibres pass as the pyramidal tract through the crusta of each crus cerebri, the pons and the medulla oblongata. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. I moved amidst the huge pyramidal trunks of the cypresses, whose thick umbellated foliage, meeting overhead, shut out both sun and sky. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West A shadowy garden, fragrant and dim, stretches up to the pyramidal pile which covers the hill. Through the Malay Archipelago At the far end of this imposing room an enormous, pyramidal shrine of gold rises almost to the roof, its dazzling brilliancy somewhat subdued by the semi-obscurity of the interior. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China But long ago the "divine" origin of the Scottish ell—as in recent times the divine origin of the so-called pyramidal cubit and inch—was pleaded rather strenuously. Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 The remaining fibres pass down as the direct pyramidal tract, and decussate in the cord near their termination. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. The very exceptions to the sweeping and comprehensive possessions of the seed of Jacob are pyramidal witnesses to the same. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 The captives were halted before the pyramidal building, which, from its great size and peculiar appearance, I supposed to be the council house, or the dwelling of the chief. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Rearing itself roofward from the center of the room is an enormous pyramidal altar, littered with a heterogeneous collection of offerings from the devout. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Was, however, the "Sacred Cubit"—upon whose alleged length of 25 "pyramidal" inches this idea is entirely built—really a measure of this length? Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 The ordinary method, however, adopted for catching tigers is by means of pits, which are dug from twelve to fifteen feet in depth, and somewhat pyramidal in form. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 If we think of Michel Angelo's seated Moses as getting up, we think away from the approximately pyramidal shape of the statue to the elongated oblong of a standing figure. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics It is the utility of the pyramidal form � its fitness to stand � that has made it a type in building. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory It is of a flat pyramidal shape, and the lower end terminates in a fibrous point. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests A serviceable form of loophole consists of a pyramidal box of plank with a steel plate spiked across the small end and pierced for fire. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition You will remember, Sir, that the royal cells are of a pyramidal form, with a wide base, and a long contracted top. New observations on the natural history of bees The form is remarkable, the front rising pyramidally. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture The legislative and political body was originally constructed in four groups, or tiers—if we are to preserve the pyramidal simile—one rising above the other. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The fruit is of roundish form, sometimes pyramidal, or heart-shaped, the broad base uniting with the stem. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests For folding pyramidal tents: The tent is thrown toward the rear and the back wall and roof canvas pulled out smooth. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition He has fancy, keenness of conception, desperate but unwilling bravery, scientific faculties, and a quiet delight in the richness of his own lovely islands and pyramidal mountains. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. The claws support the setting of a sharply-pointed pyramidal diamond, such as was then coveted for writing on glass. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture Seed vessel pyramidal, containing many seeds enveloped in an elastic aril by which they are ejected when the fruit opens. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Many of the great buildings erected on such pyramidal foundations, at Palenque, Uxmal, and elsewhere in that region, have not disappeared, because they were built of hewn stone laid in mortar. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology In other respects conical tents are erected practically as in the case of pyramidal tents, as explained in par. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Earlier still, Lambert had suggested a pyramidal form. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma Arrange the slices on a large porcelain pie-plate in pyramidal form, sprinkling each layer with some sharp, hard cheese, grated, and seasoned with a very little red pepper. American Cookery November, 1921 Fruit, many pyramidal drupes joined together, but easily separable. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines This foundation, like all the others, is pyramidal. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology The monkey is a tall pyramidal kid or bucket, which conveys the grog from the grog-tub to the mess—stealing from this in transitu is so termed. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The staircase at the south-west corner terminates at the top in a square turret with a pyramidal stone cap. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric This mountain owes its name of Cofre to a naked rock of pyramidal form which rises like a tower from its summit at a height of 500 feet. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Balls there were in abundance, for, in addition to piles standing pyramidally at the foot of each tower, half-covered now by flowers and shrubs, there were similar piles close to the carriage of each gun. The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War Within the walls is a “central pyramidal chamber or temple,” with a tree growing on it. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology A pyramidal cone of light, apparently emanating from the rising and setting sun, commonly seen in the tropics; in higher latitudes most visible about the time of the equinoxes. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Originally the tower had perhaps a low pyramidal roof without a parapet, and then came several successive spires. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric All who have seen a battery will recollect the pyramidal form in which shot and shells are piled. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 This grows to be a stately tree of pyramidal habit, perfect in form, with heavy, slightly pendulous branches from the ground up. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover They are solid, truncated pyramidal columns, generally about twenty feet high and ten feet square at the base. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology These nations have broad and lozenge-formed faces, and what I have termed pyramidal skulls. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Two or four men load up a kind of flat hand-barrow without wheels till it is pyramidal and colossal with piled gear. A Tramp's Notebook Many authors assert that the Amazons and many Eastern people had nothing in their temples but these pyramidal stones, which represented to them the Divinity.... The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) Their tops are pyramidal, and ribs run down the edges from the curious conical cap, which crowns the apex of each. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See In both cases they are pyramidal in shape, and have level summits of considerable extent, which were reached by means of stairways on the outside. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology Half a league further on they noticed, in a farmyard, a pyramidal object stretched out towards the horizon. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life It is of red sandstone, inlaid with white marble, and is a pyramidal building, four stories high, the first three being of red sandstone and the fourth of marble. Travels in the Far East In the Lombardy poplar, and in certain fastigate or pyramidal varieties of thorns, junipers, oaks, &c., we have an opposite kind of growth. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Quite at the head of the arch, under a lofty pyramidal canopy, we see a tiny nude figure which represents probably a pure soul just released from Purgatory. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See It stands near the river, on a terraced pyramidal foundation 40 feet high and 310 feet long, by 260 broad at the base. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology One man at each large conical hopper tending the gates and two men charging the four pyramidal hoppers composed the mixer gang. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs A large oval bed of brilliant crotons on one side of the garden, and another foliage bed that formed the base of a pyramidal vase on the other side, were especially admired. Travels in the Far East The great pyramidal tower of Cholula is of this character, resembling somewhat the temple of Belus, according to the description given of it by Herodotus. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The stately thirteenth-century tower with its massive buttresses is surmounted by "a splendid pyramidal group of turrets, pinnacles, and windows", from which the spire shoots upwards. Oxford The great building first noticed stands, or stood, on a pyramidal foundation, which is supported along the river by that high back wall. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology The bottom of this second chute was kept about 6 ins. below the top edges of a pyramidal hopper like the one described above. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Vast pyramidal heaps leap incessantly from the river, some of them with such energy as to jerk their summits into the air, where they hang momentarily suspended in crowds of liquid spherules. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It is a quadrangular stone structure, rising in a pyramidal form to the height of thirty-three feet. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America In the centre of the courtyard was a statue of Louis XIV.; a chapel stood at the north-east with a pyramidal steeple of wood covered with lead. The Story of Rouen Mr. Stephens, describing what he saw there, confines his attention chiefly to a pyramidal structure with flights of steps, and monoliths larger and higher than those at Copan, but otherwise similar. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology The bars were bent in at the point and inserted in a hollow pyramidal cast iron shoe weighing about 50 lbs. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs The human mind is as little disposed to look without questioning at these pyramidal salt-crystals, as to look at the pyramids of Egypt, without enquiring whence they came. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The head is small in proportion to the body, and of a pyramidal form—mottled at the sides with black and green, the jaws edged with yellow. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America A contract was drawn and an agreement made with him for the construction of one hundred and twenty stalls with historical subjects, high backings, crownings, and pyramidal canopies. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens Only one remains, a circular stone building 25 feet in diameter, which stands on a pyramidal foundation 35 feet high. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology On this foundation I shall raise a pyramidal frame of three or more thick logs, on the top of which I shall fix a flagstaff with a pulley block for the flag. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II If that analogy is accepted, then the pyramidal dance must be regarded as originally hieratic and consecrated to Cybele. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Within these walls are extensive terraces and pyramidal buildings, massive stone columns, idols, and altars covered with sculpture. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The cheek of the young party is pyramidal,' said Mr. Tom, as he rang for breakfast. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols The “white temples” were “elevated” because they stood on high pyramidal foundations, just as they are seen in the old ruins. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology The inflorescence is an erect narrow pyramidal panicle, varying in length from 4 to 10 inches and about 2 inches in breadth. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Close to the railway station is a huge pyramidal monument, indicating the spot where the brunt of the battle was borne, and erected to the memory of the brave French who fell in the contest. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta The typical Tusayan form of architecture is the pyramidal, especially in the most ancient pueblos. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 It was too dark to aim at these parts; and my shots glanced harmlessly from the pyramidal scales of their bodies. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire The method of building is different; the Peruvian temples were not high truncated pyramids, and the great edifices were not erected on pyramidal foundations. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology The inflorescence is a narrow pyramidal raceme of slender, spreading or deflexed spikes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses This portion of the brain is very large in the horse: it is pyramidal in shape, the narrowest part joining the cord. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse This portion was compact, without a rectangular court, and was of pyramidal form. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Across the river, and in front of us, rises nearly perpendicularly a group of mountains, the summits of which are broken into many beautifully cut conical and pyramidal peaks. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Making allowance for the absence of the pyramidal foundations, it has more resemblance to some of the great constructions in Central America than to any thing peculiar to the later period of Peruvian architecture. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology The panicle in Sporobolus coromandelianus is pyramidal and the branches are all verticillate, the lower being longer than the upper. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Out of this forest the stream appears to issue; and upon its banks, near the border of the woods, we perceive a collection of strange pyramidal structures. The Scalp Hunters According to the old drawings, these turrets should have been surmounted by pyramidal spires. Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg It is ugly, and adds nothing to the dignity of the church; probably the tower was originally crowned by a pyramidal roof which gave it the appearance of height so much required. Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda Our road was studded on both sides with lofty poplars, which seemed to shoot their pyramidal heads into the clouds. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. The panicle is strict, erect, narrowly pyramidal, often interrupted, varying in length from 6 to 18 inches and breadth from 1/2 to 2 inches. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses A favorite form of the Dutch churches was six or eight sided, with a high pyramidal roof, topped with a belfry and a weather-vane. Home Life in Colonial Days Whenever it was deemed proper to obtain this communication, a pyramidal lodge was constructed of poles, eight in number, four inches in diameter, and from twelve to sixteen feet in height. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings The system is pyramidal and means highly centralized and autocratic power. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 The phenomenon is not questioned, but the orthodox preference is to call it, not ax-like, nor wedge-shaped, but "pyramidal." The Book of the Damned The pyramidal pediment above this opening projects above the upper cornice into a coved ceiling, which would appear from the rendering of the drawing to form an apse above the semi-circular stage. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration In the grand compositions of Raphael, we often see the actors grouped into a pyramidal form. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 All the pyramidal wonder of them, fore, main, and mizzen, were not like a good rider's hands to a horse; compelling, coaxing, curbing the wind, they were utilities. The Wind Bloweth |
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