tympans

D'ailleurs je trouve que je suis assez diversifié sur ce qui "cérumenise" mes tympans.

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Le vivant me repugne, quand on me parle je plisse les yeux et fait la grimace parce que la voix des gens me blesse les tympans, je ne fait jamais la bise ni ne sert la main sauf si la personne en face attends comme un blaireau.

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Internally, this portion of the Exhibition comprises a vast entertainment hall, brilliantly and artistically decorated with tympans representing the three principal ports of commerce -- Havre, Bordeaux, and Marseilles -- and with pictures by the best marine painters.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various

In the arches of these three porticos are figures of a smaller size, which like the bas-reliefs of the tympans, exhibit either scenes taken from Scripture, or saints and angels.

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

Your breath falls around me like dew—your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears;

So Long 1900

Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held, 25

As Consequent, Etc 1900

These tympans are interchangeable at will, and the arm which carries them is also provided with a turning tool for smoothing the wax cylinder prior to its receiving the print.

The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889

Above that forest gleamed colored triglyphs; from tympans stood forth the sculptured forms of gods; from the summits winged golden quadrigæ seemed ready to fly away through space into the blue dome, fixed serenely above that crowded place of temples.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

I see brains and lips closed -- tympans and temples

Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

I see brains and lips closed -- tympans and temples unstruck,

Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855