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Meanings of corinthian capitals in English

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Usage of corinthian capitals in English
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Fifteen of the lofty columns with their Corinthian capitals are still standing.
Early European History
2
Here ran a colonnade of twelve red porphyry pillars, with Corinthian capitals.
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
3
Eagles are also seen at the corners of the Corinthian capitals.
Palaces and Courts of the Exposition / A Handbook of the Archite...
4
The first consists of semicircular arches supported by small pillars with Corinthian capitals.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
5
The Roman Corinthian capitals are burnt orange with an Indian-red ground.
Palaces and Courts of the Exposition / A Handbook of the Archite...
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Blue Corinthian capitals bend to fit inside each corner.
Daughters of the Nile
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On these principles of proportion, Corinthian capitals will be finished as they ought to be.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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This, as well as the Corinthian capitals of bronze, was manufactured at the foundry of the Bairds.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
9
The six columns are their bases, Corinthian capitals and entablature-andsix more shapely columns do not exist.
The Innocents Abroad
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Some of them are marble, with Corinthian capitals, and eighteen are single shafts of red Egyptian granite.
The Lands of the Saracen / Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Si...
11
The columns had Corinthian capitals, which aroused great admiration in those who saw them because of their beauty.
The Makers and Teachers of Judaism / From the Fall of Jerusalem ...
12
The colonnade is about thirty-five feet high, and the columns are about three feet in diameter with Corinthian capitals.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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Who can improve upon the Doric columns of the Parthenon, or the Corinthian capitals of the Temple of Jupiter?
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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Both opened into an upper piazza, whose lofty pillars were wreathed with flowering vines, and crowned with Corinthian capitals.
Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
15
The apse is beautiful, with its five tall windows and its columns with Corinthian capitals in the intervening wall spaces.
Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
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It was a felicitous impromptu, and twenty guests were assembled, who were the Corinthian capitals of the temple of fashion.
The Young Duke
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