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friezes

n. (plural of frieze English)

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Gold friezes ran about the base and the top of the walls, and there was no door other than the one through which he had entered.

The back entrance into the factory was quite unlike that to the main front office, with its ceramic friezes of Providence and Mercy, where I'd sometimes been sent to collect the wages.

This time Saul didn't bother to decorate the lead-green walls with friezes of the countryside.

Black-white plumes poured up from the crackling ruin of Engine Floor as the whole town rushed towards those famous gates with their friezes of Providence and Mercy.

The workings are even administered from offices beyond an archway set with the twin friezes of Providence and Mercy.

They turned into an open door at random, and traveresed a series of empty chambers, floored like the hall, and with walls of the same green jade, or of marble or ivory or chalcedony, adorned with friezes of bronze, gold, or silver.

Gold friezes ran about the base and the top of the walls, and there was no door other than the one though which he had entered.

The most perfect limestone sheets they carved into low-relief lintels and friezes with which to decorate temples and palaces.

I have seen temple friezes there carved with representations of the many positions a man and woman can assume.

The friezes sculpted on both the near face and the far were of war and conquest: armoured men in chariots carrying round shields and heavy swords, battling others armed with only clubs and spears.

And the warriors with the clubs were dying on the friezes, their pain made vivid in the sculptor's art.

Not far away, looming in silence at the end of its avenue of elms, the massive arch looked down upon them all, keeping its secrets, bearing its own grim friezes of battle and death carved long ago.

Cut diamond slabs made adequate walls, and the surviving special craftsmen would spend their lives polishing and faceting, carving friezes as intricate as anything Nau had owned at home.

Watch-on-Watch, she and her gang carved out those friezes on Hammerfest.

The walls were not just blank expanses of polished stone, but works of art, with carved friezes illuminated from within the stone and illustrated so well that the images seemed caught in midstep, or in midaction.