Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 397
^ ing them with deposits of dust and washings of dirt, before findingat B a dripping-place where it can at last leave the stone ? But thearchitects of the twelftli centuiy, instead of inserting a cornice be-tween two stories in tins manner, used but a simple string-conrse ormoulded band, whose… … If they wished to compose an archivolt, a moulding circulatingover an arclied opening, they took care to make a profile which GREEK AXD GOTHIC BASES. 323 shoiild best indicate the power of résistance witli wliicli tlie archshould be provided, witliout cuttiiig into the stone so deep as reallyor…
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