Et dicit Isidorus, quòd pernicibus equis claustra Alexandri rupibus ❋ Unknown (2004)
Et dicit Isidorus, qu騞 pernicibus equis claustra Alexandri rupibus ❋ Unknown (2003)
A pierced claustra-work wall, creating an artificial frontier between a load-bearing wall and a peripheral gallery, and allowing light to pass through, with the play of light and shade, dancing to the rhythm of the sun as the day unfolds from dawn to dusk, is of unsurpassable beauty. ❋ Unknown (1995)
Fig. 221: Principle types of claustra used on the project for the room windows facing the "shanza" and for the ventilation of the sanitary block. ❋ Unknown (1995)
But it is also in chain corners, cornice ornamentations, the worked reveals of openings, in the building of imaginatively shaped claustra-work, as in the great fired brick tradition, that the compressed earth block emerges as a decorative material par excellence. ❋ Unknown (1995)
Blocks can be used for facing floors and walls, for decoration, for claustra work, for interlocking building systems, etc. ❋ Unknown (1995)
Fig. 158: Simple claustra-work designs with cries-cross motifs (full and half blocks) or the woven effect of stretchers with vertical blocks. ❋ Unknown (1995)
"I find this one claustra," said Dalmatica with a flicker of — irony? ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
[745] Alexandria may well be called the key, claustra, of Egypt, which was the granary of Rome. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)
Destruxit quidem claustra inferni, et subvertit potentias diaboli. ❋ Various (N/A)
Egyptian Antonius, who had cast away his vast possessions, and chosen the desert for his residence, collected together the hitherto dispersed anchorites (monachi) into fenced places (monasteria, cænobia, claustra, cloisters), that they might live together in fellowship; and his disciple, ❋ John Delafield (N/A)
_ "Perrupit claustra" _; yes, and bridged their gulfs; ❋ Alfred Noyes (1919)
Ciminian forest to attack the Etruscans in Etruscan territory; wherefore, Livy calls these towns "claustra Etruriæ"; in 382, they became Latin colonies. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
[Footnote 306: 'Agger sine pugna.'] [Footnote 307: 'Obsessio secura.'] [Footnote 308: 'Tenens claustra provinciae.'] ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)
Omnia tum vero vitai claustra lababant; + and soon the cold was mounting with sure pace from the dead feet to the head. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)
William Herschel, as is well expressed in the elegant inscription on his monument at Upton, broke through the inclosures of heaven ( 'caelorum perrupit claustra'), and, like another Columbus, penetrated into an unknown ocean, from which he beheld coasts and groups of islands, whose true position it remains for future ages to determine. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
Qui quidem, quoniam non facile ab his qui non elegerant, recipiebantur, manum sibi contrahebat armatam, & claustra murorum in hostilem morem vel obsidione cingebat, vel aggressione reserabat, & ad sedem quietis pacem prædicaturus per bella ducebat: His talibus contra Imperii majestatem, & contra reverentiam Apostolicæ Sedis admissis, per ordinem religiosi viri ❋ Isaac Newton (1684)
[2762] let us give God thanks, that no man is compelled to live against his will; [2763] quid ad hominem claustra, career, custodia? liberum ostium habet, death is always ready and at hand. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Protensseque hastae, fulgentiaque arma, minaeque Telorum ingentes subeunt; dant claustra fragorem Horrendum, ruptoe stridente bituraine chartas Confusos reddunt crepitus, et sibila miscent. ❋ Unknown (1812)
- lateral grooves enabling claustra-work structures to be built without needing to use special bonding. ❋ Unknown (1998)
