Octagon Sentence Examples

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  • In the architectural plans it is an octagon with chapels projecting on each side.

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  • The diagonal sides of the irregular octagon are not indicated.

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  • In 1766 he became an organist at the Octagon Chapel in Bath.

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  • So his Tower of the Winds is not a regular octagon, but a strongly canted square, as it were.

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  • The dome of the edifice rests on eight stone columns which form an octagon.

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  • In different parts of the park, and especially from the Octagon, charming views are obtained.

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  • The center gatehouse is a domed octagon, the dome being pierced by small quatrefoiled windows.

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  • I will calling in at Yeovil Job Center and visiting the octagon in the evening.

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  • With this track, Dr. Octagon, also known as Kool Keith, proves he is still the most inventive, revolutionary hip hop artist out there.

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  • Each side of the octagon is covered with a large relief of a Biblical subject, very dull in style and coarse in execution.

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  • Externally it is an irregular octagon, each face consisting of a lower storey with a semicircular arch (in three cases occupied by a portal), with sculptures by Antelami, four tiers of small columns supporting as many continuous architraves, and forming open galleries, and above these (an addition of the Gothic period) a row of five engaged columns supporting a series of pointed arches and a cornice.

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  • In plan it is an octagon with chapels projecting one on each side.

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  • The central area, where is the basin of the font, is an octagon around which stand eight porphyry columns, with marble capitals and entablature of classical form; outside these are an ambulatory and outer walls forming a larger octagon.

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  • Occasionally, as in the case of Laleli Jamissi, where the dome rests upon an octagon inscribed in a square, the influence of SS.

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  • Game tables - The best design is a round or octagon table that seats four or more players at a time.

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  • Pampille Earrings from the B Mine Collection are created using octagon clear full lead crystals hanging from a delicate sterling silver rhodium plated link chain.

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  • This series features octagon, rounded rectangular, and oval clipons with colored mirrored lenses.

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  • When divided, the octagon shape of the bagua divides into eight equal outer sections with a center circle equal in size.

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  • When working with a bagua map, generally the corners of the octagon are extended to form a square which divides into nine equal sections.

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  • The layout of the Earlier Heaven bagua has Heaven or Qian at the top of the octagon and the earth, or Kun, at the bottom.

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  • The bagua chart is an octagon shape that is divided into eight equal areas, with the ninth area located in the center.

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  • Handcrafted Greetings has illustrated instructions for a number of medallions, including projects made with square, round, and octagon tiles.

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  • Spiritcrafts sells a wide range of votive molds including octagon, square and tapered variations.

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  • A gorgeous octagon shaped yellow sapphire, flanked by two octagon diamonds are set in a beautiful platinum band.

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  • The stone is cut in such a way that when finished, the inside of the diamond looks like an octagon.

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  • Many of these types of rings are three-stone rings because of how well the octagon and triangular shape blend and contrast.

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  • The diamond resembles an octagon with deeply beveled corners.

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  • Those who heard Dr. Octagon's album "Blue Flowers" in the late 1990s surely never forgot it.

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  • Charlemagne's bones are preserved in an ornate shrine in the Hungarian Chapel, lying to the north of the octagon.

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  • The former, well restored by Ricci in1898-1900(except for the dome with its baroque frescoes which has not been altered), is a regular octagon, with a vestibule, originally flanked by two towers on the west, a choir added on the east, triangular outside and circular within; it is surrounded within by two galleries interrupted at the presbytery, and supported by eight large pillars, the intervals between which are occupied by open exedrae.

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  • In this case the central court is roofed over, and has an octagon lantern in the centre; the recesses are covered with horizontal ceilings carried on great beams, the whole being elaborately carved, coloured and gilded; the tomb is covered with the later type of dome, built in stone, and elaborately carved outside with delicate conventional patterns in relief.

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  • Connecting the piazza with the neighbouring Piazza della Scala is the famous Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, a great arcade in the form of a Latin cross, with an octagon in the centre, crowned at the height of 160 ft.

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  • The church of St Mary and All Saints, originally collegiate, is Perpendicular, and only the nave with aisles, and the tower surmounted by an octagon, remain; but the building is in the best style of its period.

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  • On his return he took a curacy at Bath, and was speedily appointed to the Octagon Chapel, where his fame both as preacher and platform speaker continued to spread.

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  • It is cruciform, with a central tower, and has an eastern octagon which may have been copied from the corona of Canterbury Cathedral, as Eystein, archbishop of Trondhjem (1160-1188) and an active builder, was in England during his episcopate.

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  • It somewhat resembles the Milan arcade, and has an octagon in the centre, with a cupola.

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  • The palace (Schloss), built in1751-1776on the site of the previous erection of 1715, is a plain building in the old French style, composed of a centre and two wings, presenting nothing remarkable except the octagon tower (Bleiturna), from the summit of which a splendid view of the city and surrounding country is obtained, and the marble saloon, in which the meridian of Cassini was fixed or drawn.

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  • A staircase of 900 steps leads to the top. On one of the landings is a huge rudely-carved stone figure of the giant Enceladus, and at the top is an octagon building called the Riesenschloss, surmounted by a colossal copper figure of the Farnese Hercules, 31 ft.

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  • It is an octagon, with a dome; in the interior are two arcades one above the other.

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