Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 152
ight shrinking without injury to the general outline.The little panels of a Cairo door or pulpit may expand withoutencountering enough resistance to cause any cracking or splittingin the surrounding portions, and the Egyptian workmen soonlearned to accommodate themselves to the conditions of their… … FIG. 32.—CARVED PANEL OF PULPIT (Jthl.(South Kensington Museum.) cathedral. Where the ministers and congregation sit cross-legged on the floor, and in a service where there is no music andtherefore no choir or organ, we cannot look for carved chancel-stalls, misereres, choir-screens, organ-lofts,…
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