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Mouldings should be specially designed for different marbles.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various
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Mouldings are run out for us by the mile, like iron from the rolling-mill or tunes from a musical-box, as cheap and as soulless.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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Mouldings that are formed by cutting the bricks can be got more perfectly true than when moulded bricks are used; but the expense is greater, and when it is done the material is less durable, for the softer sorts of brick are naturally used for cutting, and the moulded face is less sound than the original burnt face of any brick.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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Mouldings are often the surest guides in helping us to ascertain the date of a building.
English Villages 1892
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Mouldings were frequently ornamented with foliage of this character in the hollows, and another ornament, the _dog-tooth_ or
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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Mouldings as a means of architectural effect were singularly lacking in Egyptian architecture.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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[Illustration (f104): Relief in Architectural Mouldings.]
Line and Form (1900) Walter Crane 1880
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Mouldings of a pattern one sees about common fireplaces ran everywhere with praiseworthy impartiality.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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Mouldings were discovered of incomparable elegance; the figures on entablatures were found to be chiselled accurately from nature; the pillars were of matchless proportions, the capitals of graceful curvatures.
Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852
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Mouldings, mats, fillets, mat designs and more are selected from pop-up lists.
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