stained-glass window

“After the death of a physician, his wife gave a stained-glass window to the Episcopal Church of St. Luke, the beloved physician.”

Memories and Anecdotes

“Sometimes it was an out-of-body experience and she was actually looking down upon her younger self climbing the old staircase of the hospital, lingering at the stained-glass window at the landing, walking through the darkened hallway on the third floor, then opening the door to find her mother at the window.”

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“Tintoretto's last works at the Scuola di S. Rocco display a system of symbols as abstract as a stained-glass window of the thirteenth century; painting once more became the handmaid of theology.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

“He prayed by fits and starts; and in the intervals studied closely and with an eye for effect the appearance of priestly persons and functions, with altar and stained-glass window in the background, and gathered materials for his Abbes Birotteau, Bonnet, and others.”

Balzac

“The Chestnut Club was one of Philadelphia’s grandest gray ladies, a Victorian mansion with a huge, paneled entrance hall, a sweeping, mahogany staircase, and a landing with an immense, stained-glass window depicting William Penn negotiating with the Native Americans.”

Courting Trouble

“Get hold of yourself, she silently admonished, her heart hammering as, at the final landing, she looked at the stained-glass window and wondered how it had survived.”

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“Some mooseheads and deer hung on the walls too, and there was even a stained-glass window behind the bar.”

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“A stained-glass window opposite the platform is the work and the gift of Pennsylvania women.”

Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

“Up, up, up she climbed, her shoes pounding on the stairs, past the stained-glass window of the Virgin Mother on the landing and up a final few steps to the third-floor hallway that was empty, the lights already dimmed.”

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