Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 293
painted sailsand glittering flag-vanes, will not suffer to remain whollyundecorated. The rough service of these timbers, however,will not admit of rich ornament, and the boatbuilder usuallycontents himself with cutting a series of notches in each edge,one series alternating with the other, as… … THE EDGE AND FILLET. 265 possessors of penknives or other cutting instruments on bothsides of the Atlantic ;—in that rude Venetian gunwale, I say,is the germ of all the ornament which has touched, with itsrich successions of angular shadow, the portals and archivolts01 nearly every early building…
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