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In high school in a new town with the flying-buttress supports of her siblings gone.
If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007
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In high school in a new town with the flying-buttress supports of her siblings gone.
If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007
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Westward of this, and standing clear of the wall, is a fine fourteenth-century flying-buttress.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette
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In this case, however, but not in the others, the flat strip and the flying-buttress are of the same width and built as one piece of structure.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette
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These buttresses have, alternately, a pedestal with a canopy above; and a pedestal supporting a small flying-buttress terminating in a pinnacle enriched with small crockets.
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This combination of flying half-arches and buttresses is called the _flying-buttress_ (Fig. 107).
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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The flying-buttress became a feature of minor importance where the clearstory was kept low, as in most English churches.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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St. Denis, afford early examples of the flying-buttress (Fig. 107).
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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Beyond the pines at their eastern edge, a great crag jutted forth in a sort of shoulder, a vast flying-buttress that supported the pine-clad
Gordon Keith Thomas Nelson Page 1887
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Nice flying-buttress centre console is new, so Toyota Auris owners will feel really at home in the Tornado 750 GTS cabin.
unknown title 2009
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