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  • A great ray of sunlight, the sunlight of four o'clock in the afternoon, illuminated the rosework of the windows, cast upon the gravelled paths rainbow-like beams that crept gently up the bronze or marble of the statues, suffusing a lovely nude body with bright colors and giving to the vast museum something of the aspect of a garden.

    The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • The church clock struck with a rattling sound, and the rosework on its tympanum looked like an eye espying a sacrilege.

    Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • Here I live alone, or in the company of four or five choice books, in a lofty hall with pointed roof; the points where the ribs intersect being covered with rosework of exquisite delicacy.

    The Cross of Berny Jules Sandeau 1847

  • a doorway formed of two elaborate arches, and surmounted by a high frontal on which intertwined arabesques form wonderful rosework, and holy writings are enscrolled with the most ingenious complications.

    Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

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