How To Use Cruciform In A Sentence
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This morning it was calm and clear save for a light misty veil of ice crystals through which the moon shone with scarce clouded brilliancy, surrounded with bright cruciform halo and white paraselene.
Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
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The cruciform church has huge Perpendicular windows, which until the C18 retained their medieval stained glass.
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It is often nicknamed the Northern Cross, and certainly it is much more cruciform than the Southern Cross.
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The church's presence on a major suburban road is prominent, not for a spire, steeple or traditional cruciform design, but for its textured walls in contrasting tan and blonde brick.
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It is often nicknamed the Northern Cross, and certainly it is much more cruciform than the Southern Cross.
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A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink.
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
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The motifs shared by the petroglyphic art include circles, cruciform shapes, star motifs and herringbone patterns.
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Twin crystals are common; they show swallow-tail or arrow-head forms and more rarely cruciform growths, and may grow to 3-4 m long.
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The bars in the frame cast a cruciform shadow across her body.
DESPERADOES
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The hilt of his sword jutting over his shoulder cast a wavering cruciform shadow on the water below us.
Kushiel's Avatar
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One such invention was the rotating cruciform gravity gradiometer mass detector, which measures Earth's subsurface mass variations or gravitational multipole moments.
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The hermetically sealed compartment had the equipment mounted in cruciform bays, with the chemical batteries protecting the radio and guidance equipment mounted at the centre.
Satellite Collisions: Sooner Or Later ... - NASA Watch
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Despite the apparently irregular urban configurations of most ancient cities of the Maya lowlands, at least some Maya centers seem to have been organized according to cruciform urban plans.
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It was originally inspired by Old S. Peter's in Rome and is a cruciform church with double aisles and seven apses.
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The cruciform cast-pewter mountings continue their references to Maori Christian imagery.
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These are arranged in a double cruciform, four apartments radiating from each staircase, which ingeniously receives borrowed daylight from two diagonally opposite corners, the other two corners containing service lifts.
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Decanters from the late 18th century have been copied profusely, whereas the earlier cruciform shapes have been left alone.
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Twin crystals are common; they show swallow-tail or arrow-head forms and more rarely cruciform growths, and may grow to 3-4 m long.
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The jet buttons had been brought from 250 km away, and one of them was decorated with a cruciform design made by selectively dulling the polished surface and inlaying metallic tin, which must have been imported from south-west England.
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There is also an early version of the passage-tomb, in a cruciform shape, it's one of the largest surviving monuments of the Carrowmore cemetery.
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Cruciform flowers are regular flowers with four petals cross-shaped.
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Steel-framed transparent glass above the tub is part of a skylight cruciform that runs the entire length and width of the third floor.
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Within Tisbury itself is its cruciform church, C12 with C14 and C15 additions.
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This last is interesting not only for its cruciform plan, but also because it is one of the few examples of covered mosques in India.
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Despite the apparently irregular urban configurations of most ancient cities of the Maya lowlands, at least some Maya centers seem to have been organized according to cruciform urban plans.
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He stands before it with arms outstretched, cruciform; but no saviour, he.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The older building's square symmetry finds its opposite in the asymmetrical cruciform of the new.
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The results suggest that long inverted repeats can form hairpins or cruciforms when they are located within a region of the helix backbone that is intrinsically curved, leading to large mobility anomalies in polyacrylamide gels.
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The plastron is often reduced and cruciform in shape and may be hinged.
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It is possible that each node where the DNA molecule crosses itself in three-dimensional space, perhaps mimicking a cruciform, creates an ideal binding site for HMG proteins.
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At the same time, a cruciform chamber roofed with large capstones was constructed at the wider, higher end of the enlarged mound.
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Elsewhere, the typical Roman cruciform plan of main streets was retained, or even introduced from new as in Oxford, Wallingford, and Cricklade.
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The cruciform pattern on Latin cross plan was retained, with much lower vaults than on the Continent.
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On the left upright a dove with olive branch, alluding to the Noah story, is enclosed in a trefoil representing the Holy Trinity, and on the right, in a cruciform shape, is a pansy, or heartsease, traditionally the flower of the Trinity.
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It featured central consulting rooms, and male and female wards on either side of the cruciform.
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It was decided at the start to make the church inside into its true cruciform shape.
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The steel columns are expressed: cruciform in shape, a modern fluting effect, they are chrome-plated.
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Among the finest remaining nineteenth-century calabooses in Texas, the jail was constructed with exterior walls of St. Louis pressed brick trimmed with stone on a cruciform plan.
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The jet buttons had been brought from 250 km away, and one of them was decorated with a cruciform design made by selectively dulling the polished surface and inlaying metallic tin, which must have been imported from south-west England.
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Then there is the cruciform shape of the space, which solves a design issue common to big houses with big rooms.
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The cruciform pattern on Latin cross plan was retained, with much lower vaults than on the Continent.
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Like that structure, it was cruciform in plan, but only its main eastern façade contained a gabled pseudo-portico featuring Ionic columns.
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The steel columns are expressed: cruciform in shape, a modern fluting effect, they are chrome-plated.
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The volumes are arranged in a vaguely cruciform plan, with wings radiating out from a central core.
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The older building's square symmetry finds its opposite in the asymmetrical cruciform of the new.
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Executed in oil, alkyd, acrylic, gesso and charcoal, the series is united by the placement in each horizontal canvas of a dominant graphic cruciform shape that interacts with smaller and typically less readily nameable forms.
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The motifs shared by the petroglyphic art include circles, cruciform shapes, star motifs and herringbone patterns.
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Flutists are asked to sing through their instruments, pianists are asked to whistle and moan, and instrumental scores are visually twisted into circles or cruciforms.
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The aisles were also given the tradition Anglican cruciform pattern.
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Faye placed two feathers, tied cruciform with black wool, on top of the bag while reciting her own bit.
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He often favored cruciform shapes and muted, earthy colors to which he frequently added rust.
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Simultaneously, a huge mass of cloud, cruciform in shape, is shot up hundreds of feet into the air from the Semeroe.
Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java
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The depiction in 1648 still reflects the medieval cruciform plan of the church, with a prominent tower (replaced in the 18th century) at the centre.
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Chalcolithic stone figures take a cruciform shape from the outstretched arms or from a second figure at right angles to the first.
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Built out of local white quartzite sandstone, it follows a simple but rigorous cruciform plan, a subconscious testament to the Victorian virtues of health, hygiene and religion.
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The building inside was redesigned into its true cruciform shape.
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It is cruciform in plan, constructed of large dressed stones (grand appareil); the central chamber is flanked by three rectangular niches.
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In the lower zone, the emperor, holding the white scroll, and his son, carrying a cruciform staff, proceed toward the right and begin to ascend a prominent staircase.
