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Definition of Gargoyles
1. gargoyle [n] - See also: gargoyle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gargoyles
Literary usage of Gargoyles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1899)
"... a buttress terminating in a niche with a mutilated female figure. A crocketed
pediment and finial surmounts each buttress. Within the arch gargoyles AT ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"St. George defeated a monstrous dragon ; other holy personages followed his
example, and the times became very hard for gargoyles, ..."
3. How to Teach Art to Children: Grades 1-6by Tanya Skelton, Joy Evans by Tanya Skelton, Joy Evans (2001)
"Talk about gargoyles with students. Show pictures of Gothic architecture and
gargoyles. ... Help students make gargoyles using a pinch-pull technique. ..."
4. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"The cathedrals cultivated and perpetuated this superstition, by the figures of
malignant demons which grinned from the gargoyles of their roofs and the ..."
5. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"External Roofs—Corbel-Tables—Cornices—Parapets—Battlements—gargoyles—Spouts.
EXTERNAL ROOFS. As we saw above, the enemy which the mediaeval builders had ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Milanese gargoyles, "originating in the simple necessity of making channels
for rainwater, became one of the most vivid and characteristic ..."
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