Example Sentences
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We descended alone into the pharaoh’s burial chamber, where the twins’ voices echoed off the high corbelled ceiling.
From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2019
I arrived in a large tomb chamber with a soaring corbelled ceiling.
From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2015
Below the dome arches the central area communicates with the surrounding ambulatory on the north, west, and south sides by large semicircular arches corbelled slightly out from the piers.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
This shaft is corbelled off, and the corbel through carved in the shape of a lizard eating the leaves of a plant with berries thereon; it is a charming study.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy
A very heavy string-course runs round the upper story, and just above this, facing up the street, the tower carries a small oriel window, fluted and corbelled and carved about with stone heads.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
