"Tympan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... afterwards became his wife. In 1890 he returned to America, becoming instructor in the Art School of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He has done a number of works for the Congressional Library, the Vanderbilt bronze doors of the St. Bartholomew Church of New York, the tympan of the Madonna and Child in the same church, a statue of William Ellery Channing and many others. His beautiful busts of women are said to be unsurpassed even ...
— Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts • Juliet James
... Napoleon. Il y avait des whigs jusque dans la famille royale, et ils etaient pleins d'ardeur. Au reste la cause etait belle: c'etait celle de la liberte contre l'autorite. "Nos adversaires," s'ecriait Lord John Russell, "nous cassent le tympan avec le cri: 'Le roi et l'Eglise.' Savez-vous ce qu'ils entendent par la? C'est une Eglise sans evangile et un roi qui se met au-dessus de la loi." Oxford—clerical et litteraire—etait tory; Cambridge, scientifique, qui avait eu Newton et attendait ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... parts of a press and their functions; distinctive features of commonly used machines. Preparing the tympan, regulating the impression, underlaying and overlaying, setting gauges, and other details ...
— Capitals - A Primer of Information about Capitalization with some - Practical Typographic Hints as to the Use of Capitals • Frederick W. Hamilton
... these errors with pen and ink is usually considered a paying investment. The tympan of the duplicating machine is sometimes made uneven so that the impression of a typewriter is still further carried out. Some duplicating machines advertise that their type print "loose" for this very ...
— Business Correspondence • Anonymous
... experiment. A few hours after one side of a sheet of paper has been printed upon, the ink is sufficiently dry to allow it to receive the impression upon the other; and, as considerable pressure is made use of, the tympan on which the side first printed is laid, is guarded from soiling it by a sheet of paper called the set-off sheet. This paper receives, in succession, every sheet of the work to be printed, acquiring from them more or less of the ink, ...
— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage |
