"Volute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that dress has been described, to the last stilted arch and Colonial volute, in every ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... that illustrious ground Where circling columns once, in sculptur'd pride, With fine volute or wreath'd acanthus crown'd, Rear'd some light roof by Anio's plunging tide; There, in the brightness of the votive fane To rural or to vintage gods addrest, Those vine clad symbols of Pan's peaceful reign Amidst dark ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 366 - Vol. XIII, No. 366., Saturday, April 18, 1829 • Various
... walls, and also runs round the apses, but with richer mouldings above it, especially round the central one. The curious Dalmatian square-leaf enrichment, channelled in six radiating striae, and terminating in a small volute at the top corner occurs here. There are two shafts to each small apse dividing the wall space, and one window, but the central apse has four twisted shafts and three windows, of which the central one is largest. In the gable is a rose-window. On the ...
— The Shores of the Adriatic - The Austrian Side, The Kuestenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia • F. Hamilton Jackson
... I claim a volute spring, formed or constructed of a coiled metallic bar, whose thickness is greater transversely upon one edge thereof than at any other point therein, substantially as and for the ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various
... Perhaps this capital affords one of the most instructive epitomes of Greek Art, inasmuch as in its composition use is made of so much that Nature gave, and those gifts are so tenderly modelled and wrought into such exquisite harmony and eloquent repose. Examine the volute: this is the nearest approach to a mathematical result that can be found in Grecian architecture; yet this very approximation is one of the greatest triumphs of Art. No geometrical rule has been ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 44, June, 1861 • Various |
