terra

• Its finest architectural feature is the antique Palace of the Commune: Gothic arcades of stone below, surmounted by a brick building with wonderfully delicate and varied terra-cotta work in the round-arched windows. —  New Italian sketches
• They form, indeed, an important element in the pictorial effect, and enhance the terra-cotta work of the façade, by the contrast of their color The time to see this square is in evening twilight--that wonderful hour after sunset--when the people are strolling on the pavement, polished to a mirror by the pacing of successive centuries, and when the cavalry soldiers group themselves at the angles under the lamp-posts or beneath the dimly lighted Gothic arches of the palace. —  New Italian sketches
• The arcades of the two cloisters are the final triumph of Lombard terra-cotta. —  New Italian sketches
• On one of the mounds Loftus was puzzled by the large quantity of small terra-cotta cones, whole and in fragments, lying about on the ground. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
• He said: "_Consideravi quod terra ista non potest esse fixa, sed movetur ut alić stellć. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages

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