How To Use Stained-glass window In A Sentence
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The stained-glass windows inside, and the black wrought iron and living or artificial flowers outside, contribute vivid accents.
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It came with original stained-glass windows and enough money left over from sale of her old flat to fit a new kitchen and bathroom.
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Setting: untidy little kitchen; long table around which we take our places when the interview begins; books on the floor; a big fax machine from twenty years ago; watercolors I think at first are stained-glass windows, which he tells me he painted himself; photos from films in which he appeared, as Chief Big Tree and Chief Thundercloud did before him; poster saying don't blame me, i voted for russell means; leaflets from the campaign he's running now, for the presidency of the Tribal Agency, against the man from yesterday's powwow, John Yellowbird Steele; and leaflets in support of George W. Bush, whose side I already knew he had joined.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville
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Wanamaker's was known for its stained-glass windows, elaborate store displays, and spectacles including organ concerts, pageants, and storybook characters in show windows.
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Torches lined the stairs, and an occasional stained-glass window let in some light.
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A stained-glass window dating to about 1500 from a cathedral in Moulins, France, joins about 120 objects from the French court in the exhibit "Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France," running through May 30.
Art: A Brilliant Heart of Glass
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Our parishioner had lived through the removal, replacement and removal again of altars and stained-glass windows.
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Stained-glass windows radiated amber and azure light, and a half-completed fresco of Mary Magdalene showed ghostly against a plaster wall.
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Often in a palette of blue, red, black and white, these kaleidoscopic paintings have been related to the intricate stained-glass windows of Rhenish cathedrals.
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The stained-glass windows inside, and the black wrought iron and living or artificial flowers outside, contribute vivid accents.
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Major alterations, like the insertion of stained-glass windows which pervert natural lighting effects, undermine this.
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The statue was dappled with light from a stained-glass window.
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The 104-bedroom hotel has neogothic interiors, with gold-leaf ceilings, stained-glass windows and masses of marble.
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Three of the cloisters reconstructed at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises and poetry, garden documents and herbals, and medieval works of art, such as tapestries, stained-glass windows, and column capitals.
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The fact that very few of the cathedral's stained-glass windows could be opened meant the smoke was slow to dissipate.
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The temple of Venus where he does his devotions is a "church" with stained-glass windows.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Above them to the left, the Technicolor grandeur of a stained-glass window was fading into black.
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The striped tiger looked like a flying stained-glass window.
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As I get closer, there's a faint gleam behind the stained-glass windows of the 13th-century abbey.
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It was a twelve-foot Fire Angel that had just enteredrusset-colored, with wings like stained-glass windowsand, along with intimations of mortality, it brought me recollections of a praying mantis, with a spiked collar and thornlike claws protruding through its short fur at every suggestion of an angle.
Sign of Chaos
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There is a cinema room with stained-glass windows and a gallery above, recalling the time when this part of the building was a chapel.
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Chartres new luminosity and stained-glass windows illustrate a second principle of medieval aesthetics.
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The former apse, with its rich mosaics and stained-glass windows, was left standing, partly for nostalgic reasons, partly to hide the friary, which would have looked unsightly without it.
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One of the saints in the stained-glass windows yawned, and put up his crosier elegantly to cover his mouth.
CHARMED LIFE
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His care for well-defined blocks of color is almost lapidary, like the intricately wrought components of stained-glass windows or a jeweler's cloisonne.
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The mansion features 18th-century plasterwork by Michael Stapleton, spectacular neoclassical columns and a gilded frieze contributed, in the 1890s, by the architect Alfred Darbyshire and a 1991 stained-glass window by Michael Judd with images of Swift, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats and other indispensable figures.
Celebrating the Mordant, Witty and Darkly Romantic
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The house contains a variety of window shapes, criss-crossing gables, beautiful Art Nouveau stained-glass windows, a corner turret with a weathercock (another one exists on top of the stables).
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It had stained-glass windows in the lounge and a gothic arch over the bed.
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Adroitly, I avoided putting my feet on any rainbowed design the sun made through the stained-glass windows in the doors.
My Sweet Audrina
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But by and large, Judy considered that all was in fine repair, the old cabinets and wide-planked floors, even the small red-and-blue-lozenged stained-glass window over the front door, which she knew — Bert had discovered it; he loved researching such things — had been ordered from a Sears catalogue all the way back at the turn of the last century.
Excerpt: The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
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_Decameron_, vol.iii. p. --, he appears under the more euphonous as well as genial name of PALMERIN: but the "hermitage" there described has been long deserted by its master and mistress -- who have transferred their treasures and curiosities to the sea-girt village, or rather town, of Ryde and its vicinity: where stained-glass windows and velvet bound tomes are seen to yet greater advantage.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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Lodovico Capponi's inclusion of a stained-glass window in the decoration of his chapel can be traced to a fashion for stained-glass windows in private chapels that had been steadily spreading since the late quattrocento.
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On one side there was a row of sturdy wooden tables and upholstered benches, separated by partitions topped with framed semicircular stained-glass windowpanes.
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There is also an incongruous pink giraffe and white elephant in the stained-glass window over the main door.
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The Gothic stylistic elements that mark it as a transitional structure can best be seen in the chancel and the ambulatory with its famous stained-glass windows.
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When illuminated with electric lights or candles, the pumpkins radiate the same muted colors as stained-glass windows.
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Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Moulins/Art Institute of Chicago A stained-glass window from a cathedral in Moulins, France.
Art: A Brilliant Heart of Glass
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The striped tiger looked like a flying stained-glass window.
Times, Sunday Times
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It came with original stained-glass windows and enough money left over from sale of her old flat to fit a new kitchen and bathroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the huge stained-glass windows on the north side of the building had been removed, allowing a bitterly cold wind to whistle around the building.
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The work looked like a cross between a 1960s longboard, and stained-glass windows built by Timothy Leary.
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It had stained-glass windows in the lounge and a gothic arch over the bed.
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More recently still, the gable walls of the old church have been repointed and the valuable stained-glass window by Michael Healy protected by storm-glazing.
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Show restraint with stained glass The abstract design of the stained-glass windows, rendered in semi-precious jewel tones, is so modern—certainly not your typical Tiffany glass.
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Of course, Louis Comfort Tiffany is most famous for the stained-glass windows and lighting featuring his patented opalescent glassmaking techniques.
Window on a Lush Life
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The Adams Davidson Galleries in Washington, D. C., is compiling a checklist of Cox's works in oils, tempera, fresco, and drawings for mosaics and stained-glass windows.
