ogive

• Hi. i have to draw an ogive in excel and do not know how? —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• The byzantine taste prevails in the first constructions of the chancel and aisles and even somewhat in the lower part of the nave; higher up, the style in which the ogive was built extends to the other constructions and finally succeeds to the former entirely The façade of the church, of an imposing magnitude, cannot be sufficiently admired; the massive walls are hidden by clochetoons_, arcades, small pillars and innumerable statues; these decorations all wrought to great perfection, give to that part of the edifice a nicety that makes it resemble a work coming from the hands of a chaser. —  Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
• Acanthus, thistles, ivy, and oak-leaves wind around their caps; between each mitred ogive is a cut-out rose; this gallery is the place where the prisoners take the air The cap of the garde-chiourme now passes along these walls where, in olden times, passed the shaved heads of industrious friars; and the wooden shoes of the prisoners click on the slabs that used to be swept by the trailing robes of monks and trodden by their heavy leather sandals The church has a Gothic choir and a Romance nave, and the two architectures seem to vie with each other in majesty and elegance. —  Over Strand and Field
• We meet very few edifices in the north of Europe of this style and epoch In the façade, the old German style prevails: arches of brick, resting upon short granite columns, support a gallery with ogive-windows. —  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1
• Five turrets, coiffed with roofs like extinguishers, raise their pointed tops above the main line of the façade with its lofty ogive-windows--unhappily now most of them partially bricked up, in accordance, doubtless, with the exigencies of alterations made within. —  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1

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