338 examples of buttresses in sentences

This is the undying charm of Oxfordthe gathering traditions of centuries, the gleaming spires, the age-worn walls and buttresses, the clinging vine, the tremulous light and shadow on the ancient halls, the sculpture of porch and clerestory, and the light that falls through richly tinted windows.

The spires and the flying-buttresses of the Northern cathedrals cannot be defended on the ground of thrifty construction.

It lay before him with its grey familiar towers, a pinnacle or two shining in the sun, the buttresses and terrace walls casting great blue shades on the grass.

Then in 1187 the Cathedral was burnt again, and Bishop Seffrid vaulted it for the first timetill then only the aisles had been vaultedbuilding great buttresses to support this and re-erecting the inner arcade of the clerestory.

It will topple down, if they don't get some Buttresses.

and we entered the region so aptly termed "Chaos." Attributed to an earthquake at the end of the fourteenth century, rightly or wrongly, the fact nevertheless remains that one of the huge buttresses of the Coumelie became detached from the main summit, and dashed down in enormous blocks to the valley below.

The walls too are not so heavy, and are supported by buttresses, which give increased beauty to the exterior,greater light and shade.

Even the broad and expansive window presses to the outer surface of the walls, now broken by buttresses and pinnacles.

Both these criticisms seem to be the result of judging a large thing when we are too close to it to get its true proportions, just as Cologne Cathedral, one of the world's most perfect structures, seems to be a shapeless pile of stone when we stand too close beneath its mighty walls and buttresses.

It has no pinnacles, flying buttresses, side chapels, or subordinate supports.

The carriage waited in the wet in front of the great oak portal; the grey, stormy evening descended on the high roofs, smearing the red out of the walls and buttresses, and melancholy and tall the red college seemed amid its dwarf plantation, now filled with night wind and drifting leaves.

"From the centre of the roof carry up a square tower with battlemented parapets and pinnacles at all corners, and flying buttresses from the turrets of the main buildings.

Buttresses would take the place of columns.

The embattled tower has double belfry windows, and is noteworthy for the unusual way in which the buttresses are finished.

The church, which has been rebuilt, has a good tower, with pinnacled buttresses and a row of quatrefoils under the belfry storey.

It is famed for its church, which has perhaps the most graceful tower in all Somerset; its double, long-panelled windows, buttresses, and clustered pinnacles are particularly fine.

Note (1) fine N. doorway (which should be compared with the S. porch of Malmesbury), (2) arcading round interior face of wall, (3) triplet at W. end, (4) remains of vaulting, (5) shallow external buttresses.

It will be noted that the string courses are carried round the buttresses.

The tower is good, with bold buttresses.

It is inferior in its buttresses and mouldings, but has a better W. window.

Its church has unusually prominent buttresses to the tower, and preserves (1) remains of stoup in S. porch; (2) piscinas in S. nave wall and chancel; (3) aumbry; (4) poppy heads to seats.

The church tower is commanding; in spite of its height, it has only diagonal buttresses.

Traces of herringbone work will be discovered on the N. exterior wall of the chancel, where, too, should be noted the flat buttresses and Norm.

It has a noble church, the earliest part of which is the E. wall (E.E.; note the five lancets and gable-topped buttresses).

Above all, I saw the rare old Gothic Cathedral, with its wondrous wealth of antique sculpture; its iron spire, destined, despite its traceried beauty, to everlasting incompleteness; its grass-grown buttresses, and crumbling pinnacles, and portals crowded with images of saints and kings.

338 examples of  buttresses  in sentences