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Here we have a note of reality, for spears of these two types are well known to us; those of Sreng were chisel-shaped, round-edged, socketed celts; the De Danaan lances were long and slender, like our spears.
The acanthus in the Romanesque has lost much of its vigor, is flat, heavy-tipped, round-edged, and scratched with V-cuts, and the vine is the leaf preferred by designers. Frequently masses of wall are cut in geometric diaper patterns, also touched with color. Borders are not broad; and circular forms, except in the arches, are seldom used.
She brought the ladle over the rim of the sieve and lowered it until it all but touched the middle of the web. She tilted the ladle slowly, slowly she poured its contents over its lip. She lifted it clear: On the web of the sieve lay a silver disk, as it were, of water, round-edged and shining. "Hercules be good to me!" cried Commodus. "Keep quiet!" she admonished him. "You'll put me off."
What next? Above the Cocorites dangle, amid a dozen different kinds of leaves, festoons of a liane, or of two, for one has purple flowers, the other yellow Bignonias, Bauhinias what not? At present it is like a number of round-edged boards of every size, set on end, and slowly coalescing at their edges. There is a slit down the middle of the trunk, twenty or thirty feet long.
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