"Groined" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... beauty. The great western window of the nave, with its six lights, is also very wonderful. Two chapels are attached to the north transept, with a passage between them, its roof supported by a double row of pointed arches upheld by twisted pillars. The roof is delicately groined, as is the roof of the choir, and the whole abbey breathes a luxuriant richness of imagination, bearing everywhere the signs of high creative genius. The same lavish imagination is shown everywhere in the interlaced tracery, the black limestone giving the artist an admirable ...
— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston
... interests that stubbornly resist the operation.... It would grieve me to foresee a day when our cathedrals and our churches shall be demolished or desecrated; when the tones of the organ, when the symphonies of Handel, no longer swell and reverberate along the groined roof and dim windows. But let old superstitions crumble into dust; let Faith, Hope, and Charity be simple in their attire; let few and solemn words be spoken before Him 'to whom all hearts are open, all desires known.' Principalities ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various
... religious light came softly stealing Along the solemn stillness of those aisles— The sculptured arch and groined roof revealing— As the bright ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens |
